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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Inclusive Teaching Practices: Creating a Classroom Where Everyone Can Thrive
As classrooms become more diverse, educators are re-evaluating teaching methods. This presentation provides background on the importance of developing cultural competency and creating an inclusive cla...
Embedding Retention Strategies into Teaching Practices
Retaining students starts with experiences in the classroom and interactions with faculty. In this session, faculty will share their teaching practices that promote student retention, including settin...
Creating Community in Your Courses
Getting students to engage in class can be difficult but establishing a positive classroom community can go a long way to help with that. In this session, you’ll hear about a few strategies that have...
Allow Students to Author Their Own Learning Path
Giving students a voice in how their learning is structured can make their learning journey more relevant, meaningful and enjoyable. During this session, you’ll hear how student-designed lessons and a...
Engaged Storytelling: A Self-Paced Workshop & Resources
A collection of resources for incorporating engaged storytelling into your course, including activities, tutorials, and tips to get you thinking about your story and your selected medium.
Open Educational Resources (OER) as a Tool for Inclusivity
The cost of course materials greatly impacts our students and their opportunities for learning given their limited resources. This presentation will include the OER and Creative Commons as well as man...
Setting a Tone of Inclusivity
In order to ensure that we are teaching all of our students and not just the ones who are like us, it is critical that we learn about and account for their diverse backgrounds. In this session, you wi...
Not Written in Stone: Adaptive Strategies to Encourage Student Participation
Students may be hesitant to participate when topics feel controversial or sensitive to them. In this session, faculty members share how they have adopted adaptive strategies that encourage discussion...
Strategies for Effective Feedback
This session will explore the use of available communication channels to help students pinpoint the areas needed for improvement. It will discuss the use of rubrics and pre-crafted responses rather th...
Student Wellness: An Interdisciplinary Course Approach
Student mental health is an increasing concern for college campuses to grapple with, especially post-COVID. Join this session to learn how two professors spearheaded the creation of a course called “B...
Helping Students Build a Positive Sense of Belonging
Faculty play a critical role in student support. In this session, the presenters will share several strategies to take advantage of their unique opportunities to interact their students, helping their...
Meeting Students Where They Are
Adapting our classrooms to the needs of our students is an important aspect of good teaching and learning. In this session, you will hear about strategies to address the dynamic needs of students comi...
Fostering Student Engagement by Empowering Student Choice
To enhance student ownership over their learning experience, students evaluated their own learning processes and had a voice in decisions related to course design and delivery. Whenever possible, chan...