1. Tips for Inclusive Teaching
Maha Bali, PhD
Associate Professor of Practice
Center for Learning and Teaching

2. 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

3. Throw paper in a basket

4. Sherri Spelic – provocation

5. 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?

6. 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

7. 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

9. Color blindness http://www. colourblindawareness

10. Equity vs equality
"Equity vs Equality" flickr photo by MN Pollution Control Agency shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license

11. Universal Design for Learning
“a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn.”

13. 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

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

15. 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

16. Tips for Inclusive Teaching
Bali and Greenlaw
inclusive-teaching/62747

17. 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)

18. 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

19. The most important element of inclusivity
Choice
The most important element of inclusivity

20. Blog: http://blog.mahabali.me
Thank You
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