Inclusive Pedagogy

Access the ACUE Toolkit on Inclusive Teaching to unlock the latest knowledge and best practices that will help you ensure diversity, inclusion, and belonging in your own teaching practice. (Note: the Inclusive Teaching Toolkit is below the Online Teaching Toolkit; scroll down to access it.)

This guide from the University of Michigan's Center for Research on Learning & Teaching addresses five aspects of teaching and provides suggestions for making teaching more inclusive in each.

The Guide for Inclusive Teaching at Columbia helps instructors answer the question of where to begin by offering five inclusive teaching principles derived from research and evidence-based practices. In addition, the guide contains practical, accessible, and usable strategies that instructors can use immediately.

The University of Illinois Chicago's Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence provides resources to support instructors in their efforts to both incorporate diverse perspectives into the curriculum and also to create a welcoming, student-centered classroom climate.

Mental Health First Aid is a course that teaches you how to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The training helps you identify, understand, and respond to signs of addictions and mental illnesses.

The Peralta Equity Rubric is a research-based course (re)design evaluation instrument to help teachers make online course experiences more equitable for all students. The rubric’s criteria include: addressing students’ access to technology and different types of support (both academic and non-academic); increasing the visibility of the instructor’s commitment to inclusion; addressing common forms of bias (e.g., implicit bias, image and representation bias, interaction bias); helping students make connections (e.g., between course topics and their lives; with the other students); and following universal design for learning principles.

National Institute on Scientific Teaching is dedicated to promoting equity, inclusion, and justice in higher education classrooms and offers both pedagogical training for STEM faculty and community network opportunities.

This page features a research-based framework for reflective practice that embodies the grounded theory of contained risk-taking explained in my book, Hard Questions: Learning to Teach Controversial Issues. Click on each element of the framework for a curated set of teaching strategies and resources.