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.
Overview During the Winter semester of 2023, the Equitable Teaching Website team conducted a series of focus groups with students across the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus. The goal of this was to gain student perspectives and learn about their experience in inclusive classrooms to help inform the website. The students identified non-interactive lectures, […]
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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 standards to account for students’
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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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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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This resource guide details tips for creating accommodations for students with disabilities as well as general practices to consider when designing your course.
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This resource guide details practices for creating inclusive assignments and assessments.
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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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This resource guide is an inventory of 30 concrete strategies for building an inclusive class with a GSI.
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These 14 types of questions model the kinds of questions a discussion facilitator might ask students in order to prompt deeper engagement with challenging topics.
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This resource guide is an inventory of 54 concrete strategies for building an inclusive class.
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