Bite-Sized Inclusive Teaching Practices

Inclusive teaching doesn’t have to be time-consuming.

Below are a number of bite-sized inclusive teaching strategies, organized by motivation. Maybe you want to provide more structure for students in your courses. Click on that category below for a number of strategies designed to build structure for students. Or, click on the wild card category, which houses strategies that serve several purposes at once. The motivational categories are from The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching, and teaching strategies were contributed from the CATE team.

For departments and/or colleges interested in having CATE host a bite-sized inclusive teaching practices workshop, reach out to us through CATE’s contact form. As a bonus, we’ll bring along decks of printed cards for instructors who attend.

Inclusive Teaching Strategies title card

The six categories of inclusive teaching strategies are (as shown above) Belonging, Relationships, Transparency, Structure Welcoming, and the Wild Card.

 

Key Card

Use this Key Card on the Inclusive Teaching Strategies Cards in the accordions below.

Inclusive Content

Belonging

Accessibility Statement

Belonging

Teaching in Turbulent Times

Belonging

Tell Your Belonging Story

Belonging

First Day Info Sheet

Relationships

Failure IS an Option

Relationships

Beyond Being a Professor

Relationships

Assignment Transparency

Transparency

Transparency Alignment

Transparency

Community Agreement

Transparency

Connect to the Present

Transparency

Structure Group Discussions

Structure

First Few Minutes

Structure

Last Few Minutes

Structure

Use Pronouns

Welcoming

Break the Ice

Welcoming

Inclusive Syllabus

Wild Card

Student or Drop-In Hours

Wild Card

Wise Feedback

Wild Card

Audio Feedback

Wild Card

Equitable Grading

Wild Card

Break it Down

Wild Card

Cognitive Wrappers

Wild Card

Rethink Participation

Wild Card

Feedback Review

Wild Card

Transparent Assignments: Winkelmas, M.A. 2013. Transparent Assignment Template. TiLT Higher Ed.

Inclusive Syllabus: Artze-Vega, I., et al. 2023. The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. W. W. Norton and Co.

Use Pronouns: Artze-Vega, I., et al. 2023. The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. W. W. Norton and Co.

Transparent Alignment: Artze-Vega, I., et al. 2023. The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. W. W. Norton and Co.

Wise Feedback: Cohen, G. et al. 1999. The mentor’s dilemma: providing critical feedback across the racial divide. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 25.10 (1302-1318). doi:10.1177/ 0146167299258011.

Inclusive Content: Artze-Vega, I., et al. 2023. The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. W. W. Norton and Co.

First Day Info Sheet: Artze-Vega, I., et al. 2023. The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. W. W. Norton and Co.

Structure Group Discussions: Artze-Vega, I., et al. 2023. The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. W. W. Norton and Co.

First Few Minutes: Lang, J. M. (2016). Small teaching: everyday lessons from the science of learning. First edition. San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass.

Last Few Minutes: Lang, J. M. (2016). Small teaching: everyday lessons from the science of learning. First edition. San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass.

Accessibility Statement: Accessibility Statement. Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. (2023, August 18). https://poorvucenter.yale.edu/AccessibilityStatements

Audio Feedback: Artze-Vega, I., et al. 2023. The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. W. W. Norton and Co.

Equitable Grading: Feldman, J. (2019). Grading for equity, what it is, why it matters, and how it can transform schools and classrooms. SAGE Publications.

Tell Your Belonging Story: Murphy, M. C., Gopalan, M., Carter, E. R., Emerson, K. T., Bottoms, B. L., & Walton, G. M. (2020). A customized belonging intervention improves retention of socially disadvantaged students at a broad-access university. Science Advances, 6(29), 1-7.

Cognitive Wrappers: Lovett, M. C. (2013). Make exams worth more than the grade: Using exam wrappers to promote metacognition. In Using reflection and metacognition to improve student learning (pp. 18-52). Routledge.

Connect to the Present: Artze-Vega, I., et al. 2023. The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. W. W. Norton and Co.

Feedback Review: Artze-Vega, I., et al. 2023. The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching. W. W. Norton and Co.