Instructor Preparation – Equitable Teaching

Instructor Preparation

In addition to preparing inclusive materials, instructors can prepare themselves with concepts that are likely to have an impact on students’ experience of the learning environment. The topics in this section are chosen to allow instructors to ground themselves in key ideas and to offer specific ways to prepare inclusive materials and classroom discussions.

Breaking the Language Barrier

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By Annissa KebedeMarch 18, 2025 Overview Navigating college is challenging enough, but for first-generation and international students, academic language can feel like a unfamiliar code-making everyday tasks like reading a syllabus or understanding a lecture overwhelming. These barriers impact more than comprehension; they affect students’ confidence, engagement, and overall academic success. Research shows that clarifying […]

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Stories of Culturally Responsive Teaching from Frontline Instructors

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This resource guide provides practical ways for instructors to get to know students as individuals, design inclusive course content and material, allow multiple ways to demonstrate learning, and integrate a variety of student engagement techniques (SETs).

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Trauma-Informed Pedagogy

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By: Erin HoweDecember 12, 2020 Overview Trauma-informed pedagogy is becoming increasingly more common as a result of multiple factors, including the national focus on racial inequality, gun violence, mental health, and the COVID-19 pandemic. With the COVID-19 pandemic specifically, a dramatic shift occurred for instructors when it was imperative that they adapt their curriculum and

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Dialoguing About Race and Racism

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This resource guide aims to provide instructors with both an overview of race, including its construction and historical context as well as ways to mobilize this information to have deeper interactions with others, particularly students in the classroom, around race and racism.

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Practical Steps for Inclusive Teaching

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This resource guide provides practical ways for instructors to get to know students as individuals, design inclusive course content and material, allow multiple ways to demonstrate learning, and integrate a variety of student engagement techniques (SETs).

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Addressing Common Obstructions to Inclusive Teaching

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This resource guide reviews potential “obstructions” instructors may have when it comes to creating an inclusive environment and suggestions on how to address them,

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