Moving Beyond The Banking Model
Overview During the Winter semester of 2023, the Equitable Teaching Website team conducted a series of focus groups with students […]
Anti-Racist Activity Lesson Plan, Instructor Preparation
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.
Discussion Facilitation, Group Development, Instructor Preparation, Planning (Inclusive Classrooms)
Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
Overview Trauma-informed pedagogy is becoming increasingly more common as a result of multiple factors, including the national focus on racial
Dialoguing About Race and Racism
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.
Practical Steps for Inclusive Teaching
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).
Instructional Accessibility Tips
This resource guide details tips for creating accommodations for students with disabilities as well as general practices to consider when designing your course.
Creating Inclusive Assignments and Assessments
This resource guide details practices for creating inclusive assignments and assessments.
Addressing Common Obstructions to Inclusive Teaching
This resource guide reviews potential “obstructions” instructors may have when it comes to creating an inclusive environment and suggestions on how to address them,
Proactive Team Practices for Effective Faculty-GSI Collaboration
This resource guide is an inventory of 30 concrete strategies for building an inclusive class with a GSI.
Useful Questions for Dialogue Facilitation
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.
Inventory of Inclusive Teaching Strategies
This resource guide is an inventory of 54 concrete strategies for building an inclusive class.
