Inclusive Teaching
Strategies for Faculty
Inclusive teaching refers to the fundamental shift in the existing pedagogy that centers around the needs of all students, regardless of backgrounds or identities, and focuses on supporting their engagement with coursework.
Generating Captions in Studio
Studio, inside of Canvas, is capable of automatically generating captions and transcripts for use in videos and audios that are uploaded. This is a great solution for people who learn better via reading or might have a hearing impairment.
Consider applying multimedia to your presentation via YouTube and click [CC] on videos that have closed captions.
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Visual Aids
Often times visual aids in the classroom (like PowerPoints) depict dominant narratives (male/cisgender/able-bodied/white) and provide an easy space to demonstrate representation. Consider adding more diverse images (e.g. traditionally marginalized student populations) to your PowerPoints is an easy way to show inclusion!
Consider PAUSING and thinking of your own implicit biases. This is a powerful first step to addressing perceptions in the classroom.
Interactive Technologies
Participation is a way to break up the monotony of a lecture (which is great when dealing with a limited attention span). Asking students for examples of concepts get them to apply the constructs to their lives and can also help. you collect RELEVANT examples for future lectures.
Consider asking students to post pictures that exemplify the constructs on MurAL or share their favorite examples on Padlet
