Foundations of Equitable & Inclusive Teaching: Equitable and Inclusive Classroom Culture

Classroom climate plays an important role in student learning, success, and a sense of belonging. Classroom culture and climate can be optimized by reflecting on your teaching practices, bias, and positionality and making intentional changes.  In this session, you will learn how teachers’ behavior and beliefs affect student success and learning. You will also develop a concrete plan to make adjustments to your teaching behaviors. 
In this series, you will learn to tweak or overhaul your course design by intentionally reflecting on your teaching practice with student diversity in mind. Each aspect of course design, from your assessment methods to selection of instructional materials, to classroom climate, may privilege some students while disadvantaging others or even harming them. Our goal is to minimize the harm to the students and maximize student learning and belongingness. Registration required.