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Cultivating Inclusivity

This document series provides an overview of key teaching strategies (including links to additional resources) for cultivating inclusivity in an online course. While framing these strategies is targeted toward a fully asynchronous online course, they are also relevant for courses being offered in any modality.

[Note: The content you will explore here has been modified from its original version as an asynchronous micro-course offered to faculty in August 2022. Future offerings can be found at ctlm.wisc.edu/deepen-your-skills]

Overview of inclusive teaching

“Inclusive teaching” is an umbrella term for a complex network of pedagogical issues and strategies. Drawing from a large body of research, much of its foundational scholarship on teaching and learning, we can feel confident that learning outcomes are improved when teachers (excerpts from the University of Michigan website).

  • Deliberately cultivate a learning environment where all students are treated equitably, have equal access to learning, and feel welcome, valued, and supported in their learning.
  • Attend to social identities and seek to change how systemic inequities shape dynamics in teaching-learning spaces and affect individuals’ experiences of those spaces.

Beneficial to all students, inclusive teaching practices will help you facilitate a more welcoming and productive learning environment. Doing so involves recognizing how our identities, experiences, and challenges shape our teaching approach and interactions with our students. While these resources focus on inclusive teaching and not course design, it is important to note that fostering inclusivity requires intentionality that starts at the design of a course and continues through the implementation of various teaching practices throughout the course.

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Get Started

This content is organized in a way that guides you through common questions about cultivating inclusivity. While you can explore the topics in any order, we recommend the sequence below:

  1. Know Yourself
  2. Know Your Students
  3. Fostering a Sense of Belonging
  4. Addressing Challenging High-Stakes Situations

References and resources for further learning



Keywords:
online, teaching, belonging, diversity, inclusion
Doc ID:
122326
Owned by:
Karen S. in Instructional Resources
Created:
2022-11-06
Updated:
2024-09-19
Sites:
Center for Teaching, Learning & Mentoring