Inclusive Teaching

If you're interested in learning more about how to become more inclusive in the classroom, please check out this short video Links to an external site. on inclusive teaching ( Download slides and complete transcript

), this blog Links to an external site. on inclusive teaching.

These slides Download slides may be helpful in thinking through WHY inclusive teaching matters, and how you can go about it in your classroom. 

You may also wish to view these workshops (recorded in previous Back to School Weeks): 

  1. Adding DEI to your class (50 minutes): In this personalized training, we discuss opportunities for adding DEI materials to your class through an examination of your curriculum and course design. We will be joined by Geneva Lasprogata Sedgewick, Director, MBA in Sport and Entertainment Management and Associate Professor, Department of Marketing at Seattle University, who led a similar, multi-year effort at her institution. Please identify in advance a course you would like to focus on and bring your syllabus! Adding DEI to your classes Workshop Recording Adding DEI to your classes.pptx Download Adding DEI to your classes.pptx 

  2. Career Champions (50 minutes): Sept 14, 3 PM How do we help students connect the dots between the skills they are building in our classrooms and the skills they will need to be successful in the workplace? The Career Champions professional development program for faculty and instructors looks at career through an equity lens, while using the NACE competencies to make these connections more explicit to students. This session is a brief overview of the program with discussion and activities pulled directly from the program’s curriculum, led by program director Brenna Gomez. Career Champions Workshop Recording NACE Competencies and Sample Behaviors Download NACE Competencies and Sample Behaviors;  Career Champions PPT Download Career Champions PPT

  3. Civil Discourse: Dialogue Through Difference (50 minutes): In today’s highly polarized environment, it can be difficult to remain in a positive conversation with someone we perceive to hold distinctly different opinions, values, and beliefs from our own. It can be even harder to hold a genuine and authentic discussion on controversial but essential classroom topics. In this workshop, we will focus on identifying common impediments to successful dialogue through difference, including a human tendency to form strong in/out group bonds, a drive toward confirmation bias, and differences in ethical and moral “building blocks” or beliefs about central aspects of ethical behavior. Rather than seeing ethical beliefs as binary, participants will be encouraged through these activities to view moral orientations and value judgments as a series of continua on which we all sit, and will discuss how to bring this approach to classroom discussions. Civil Discourse Workshop Recording Civil Discourse PPT. Download Civil Discourse PPT.

  4. Accessibility and Neurodiversity (50 minutes): Please join Martha Smith, Director of Disability Access Services (DAS) and Earlee Kerekes-Mishra, Assistant Director, DAS, to discuss how we can best work with and support our students with disabilities, and also design our classes for the diversity of our students. We will also specifically discuss neurodiversity and how DAS and faculty can support students on the autism spectrum. Workshop Recording (captions pending)