Inclusive Teaching
Students at the Commonwealth Campuses have diverse social identities, backgrounds, language competencies, and geographical regions. Teaching inclusively can help your students feel valued and valued while giving them equitable opportunities to learn and demonstrate their knowledge.
Explore this collection of resources to help you integrate inclusive teaching techniques and ideas into your courses.
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DuBois Teaching and Learning with Technology Event
Teaching and Learning with Technology and Instructional Strategies at DuBois, a 1/2 day event offered in person and online to interested faculty and staff across the Penn State system.
Inclusive Syllabus and Course Design Tips
As instructors begin to think of the start of the upcoming semester, many start with a review and revision of their course syllabus. As you think of how you might prepare your syllabus, we wanted to s...
Commonwealth Connections: Instructor Day Spring 2023
Join us for a half-day, virtual event focusing on strategies for teaching the whole student. This event will feature an instructor panel and a student panel, followed by an open discussion. Topics of...
Commonwealth Connections: Instructor Day, Spring 2023
Join us from 9am to 1pm on January 4th for a half-day, virtual event focusing on strategies for teaching the whole student. This event will feature an instructor panel and a student panel, followed by...
Live and Closed Captioning for Videos and Events
Learn best practices for adding live and closed captioning to your videos and events through services such as Zoom, Kaltura, and others.
Developing A Trauma-Informed Lens In The College Classroom And Empowering Students Through Building Positive Relationships
The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of creating a safe and empowering environment in college classrooms regardless of what subjects we teach. Safe environments and the relationshi...
Open Educational Resources (OER) at Penn State
Learn how you can create, share, and use open and affordable resources at Penn State.
Creating STEM Content That All Learners Can Understand
This workshop will provide participants with strategies to make STEM content more approachable for all learners. Some of these strategies include providing context around graphics, offering content in...
Considering the Big Picture when Using Visuals in the Classroom
Strategies for helping blind and sighted learners navigate the visuals in your course will be presented, along with opportunities to apply those skills to your own course content during the workshop s...
Designing in Canvas for All Learners, Part 1
This workshop is part of the Top 5 Universal Design for Learning Strategy series. By completing the Top 5 UDL series, you can obtain a certificate or badge recognizing your accomplishments. For more i...
Designing Your Syllabus to Support Learner Success
This workshop is part of the Top 5 Universal Design for Learning Strategy series. By completing the Top 5 UDL series, you can obtain a certificate or badge recognizing your accomplishments. For more i...
Universal Design Strategies for the In-Person Classroom
This workshop is part of the Top 5 Universal Design for Learning Strategy series. By completing the Top 5 UDL series, you can obtain a certificate or badge recognizing your accomplishments. For more i...
Supporting Learner Success in the Humanities Classroom
This workshop will provide opportunities for participants to consider the multiple means that they can use to represent content to learners and opportunities to minimize cognitive load and engage stud...
Designing Videos to Engage All Audiences
This workshop is part of the Top 5 Universal Design for Learning Strategy series. By completing the Top 5 UDL series, you can obtain a certificate or badge recognizing your accomplishments. For more i...
Top 5 Universal Design for Learning Series
The Top 5 Universal Design for Learning Series is a set of workshops that will help you design content that supports all learners in a proactive way, increases retention, and makes it easier for you t...
Who Are You Not Reaching? Designing Your Course to Gain Maximum Engagement from All Students
Reaching students can be a significant challenge for any course. Research suggests that we gain a broader response when attending to principles of inclusive teaching and best practices in inclusive co...
Leveling the Academic Playing Field with Open Educational Resources (OER)
Students often report not purchasing a textbook because it is too expensive or deferring a course due the high cost of texts. In this session, faculty share their experiences using freely available (O...
Introspection Toward Academic Engagement
Back to basics reflection on our core principles and broader professional goals and the value of these reflective “real life” practices for our students and ourselves. The session examines several ins...
Instructor Panel (Instructor Day, Spring 2022)
Instructors will share their perspectives, experiences, and tips for starting the semester in a way that fosters a sense of community, motivation, and inclusivity in their classrooms.