The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning
Inclusive Teaching
What is Inclusive Teaching?
Classrooms are key sites for both improving learning through diversity and minimizing negative classroom experiences that can disproportionately affect underrepresented students.
We outline five key starting points of anti-racist classrooms, designed to magnify the transformative impact of education but also to mitigate the negative harm.
We invite you to review this wide range of Evidence-Based Inclusive Teaching Strategies.
Large national studies link effective mentorship to important outcomes such as degree completion (Golde, 2000; Lovitts, 2001, 2008), increased self-efficacy (Paglis, Green, & Bauer, 2006), and satisfaction with the educational experience (Gardner, 2009; Nettles & Millet, 2006).
“Can I do this?” “Do I have control of my work?” and “Do I belong here?”: Inclusive Teaching in an Open Curriculum
Key Terms
Teaching in the Moment
We invite you to review this wide range of resources related to teaching when a variety of disruptions might occur in your classrooms.
At the Sheridan Center, we anticipate that many instructors are wondering about how to facilitate classes adjacent to the U.S. election. Here we offer several possibilities for addressing the topic or acknowledging the emotions that many members of the Brown community may be facing at this time.
Other Resources
- Cornell University's Teaching and Learning in the U.S. Classroom is a self-paced EdX course. Those interested in using these modules as the basis for a learning community can request a facilitator's guide through the Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation website.
- ColumbiaX: INCLTEACH1x Inclusive Teaching: Supporting All Students in the College Classroom is an introductory self-paced online EdX course for faculty. The course has two main components: video lectures and learning activities (reflection activities, reflective journal, interactive case studies activities). The content and framework of a course is based on a book Guide to Inclusive Teaching at Columbia (2018).