Tips for Inclusive Teaching Maha Bali, PhD Associate Professor of Practice Center for Learning and Teaching bali@aucegypt.edu

WITH YOUR LEFT HAND ON PAPER Write one learning experience/situation you had where you felt very uncomfortable or unable to learn well WITH YOUR LEFT HAND ON PAPER

Throw paper in a basket

Sherri Spelic – provocation https://youtu.be/33yXkJLyGac

Thoughts (think-pair-share) What are some ways Sherri Spelic suggests would make for a non- inclusive classroom? (Abstracting what she made concrete) Which of these things might be going on in a traditional classroom? Which of these might be happening in your own classroom? How might we change those?

Agenda Introductions and reflecting on our own learning Universal Design for Learning Difference: our students and us; our students and each other Hidden curriculum & discriminatory design Make one change to your course/teaching to make it more inclusive Q&A

Inclusive Learning Design Handbook “a resource cannot be labeled as accessible or inaccessible until we know the context, the learning goal and the learner (or learners)” Inclusive Learning Design Handbook https://handbook.floeproject.org/WhatIsTheApproach.html

Color blindness http://www. colourblindawareness

Equity vs equality "Equity vs Equality" flickr photo by MN Pollution Control Agency https://flickr.com/photos/mpcaphotos/31655988501 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license

Universal Design for Learning “a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn.” http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/whatisudl

In what ways are our students different from us and each other? Are some of them more privileged in some aspects? Are some of them disadvantaged in some aspects? Intersectionality

Image by Laurie Avocado via Flickr CC-BY https://flic.kr/p/4RtgzY

Hidden Curriculum & Discriminatory Design Reflect on ways in which your learning environment might be discriminatory by design, or the hidden curriculum of your own teaching

Tips for Inclusive Teaching Bali and Greenlaw http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/tips-for- inclusive-teaching/62747

Some Strategies Addressing outspoken/extroverts vs shy/quiet/introverts/minorities Thinking/reflection time before speaking time Small groups vs large groups Digital and analog participation Anonymous participation options (e.G. Personal response systems for polling) http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/tips-for-inclusive-teaching/62747

Some Strategies Addressing disadvantaged groups Content choices Pedagogical choices E.G. Synchronous vs asynchronous online sessions E.G. Modes of participation (written vs oral vs visual) Addressing needs of students with disabilities http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/tips-for-inclusive-teaching/62747

The most important element of inclusivity Choice The most important element of inclusivity

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