Doing One’s Own Personal Work on Privilege and Oppression
The guide offers reflective questions for instructors to explore and suggestions for appropriate ways and forums to work through the personal challenge of anti-oppressive work.
Incorporating Language about Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Abuse into Your Course Syllabus
This resource provides language and resources that instructors can include in their syllabus that create a welcoming and supportive environment for students who have experienced gender-based violence and sexual abuse.
An Introduction to Content Warnings and Trigger Warnings
The following content and linked resources are a primer to understanding content warnings (sometimes called “content notices” or “trigger warnings”).
Facilitating Through “Perfectly Logical Explanations”
This short document from the Commission for Social Justice Educators gives a concise description of strategies of multipartiality in discussion facilitation as a way to challenge dominant narratives that students have internalized and tend to reproduce in the classroom.
Responding to Common Dialogue Blockers
This resource is designed to help instructors manage the challenges of difficult classroom dialogue, specifically the way some students block or divert dialogue as a defensive response to perspectives they find uncomfortable or challenging.
Dialogue Blocker Activity
This activity is designed to help students recognize common dialogue blockers, why people use them, and to become more aware of how they inhibit important conversations.
Jigsaw Collaborative Discussion Method
This page introduces the Jigsaw method and describes how to use this method in classroom activities.
An Instructor’s Guide to Understanding Privilege
The following content and linked resources have been curated as a primer for instructors to better understand and attend to the ways privilege operates in the classroom.
