The Reinert Center considers inclusive teaching to be the intentional use of course design and teaching methods to create equitable learning environments where all learners can be successful, regardless of differences in identity, background, and ability. It involves an explicit commitment to recognizing and minimizing the potential for exclusion, in everything from syllabus design to assessment methods, from instructional strategies to classroom layout.
We believe the commitment to inclusive teaching is continuously enacted, in small and large ways. The resources linked below offer starting points - not exhaustive treatments - of specific practices that can promote equitable learning environments for all.
Course Design and Materials
- Features of an Inclusive Syllabus [blog post]
- Inclusion by Design: Survey Your Syllabus (Brantmeier, Broscheid, & Moore)
- Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (UDL on Campus)
- Equal Access: Universal Design of Instruction (University of Washington)
- The Graphic Syllabus [blog post]
- Statements about Course Content (before and after)
- Universal Instructional Design for Inclusive Syllabi (before and after)
- Course Design Strategies for Student Identity Development [blog post]
- Inclusive Teaching Checklist (Univ. of Tasmania)
- Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms (Linse & Weinstein)
- Inclusive Practices for Addressing Academic Integrity (Sheridan Center, Brown University)
- Accessible Syllabus Project (Tulane University)
- Inclusive Teaching Guide (Columbia University)
- Tips for Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations
Assessment and Assignment Design
- Assessment in Diverse Classrooms [resource guide]
- Transparent Assignments [blog post]
- Creating Inclusive Course Assignments [resource guide]
- How Inclusive Are Your Courses? Tools for Self-Assessment [blog post]
- Five Resources on Responding to Written Work from English Language Learners [Annotated Bibliography]
Avoiding Exclusion
- Anti-Racist Pedagogy: Resources for Getting Started [resource list]
- Understanding Stereotype Threat [resource guide]
- Reducing Stereotype Threat in the Classroom [resource guide]
- What Should We Know about Stereotype Threat? [blog post]
- Avoiding Microaggressions in the Classroom [resource guide]
- Instructor Identity: Part I. Student Implicit Bias [blog post]
- Implicit Bias [blog post]
- Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom [resource guide]
- Who Are You Excluding? Seeing the Diversity in Your Classroom [blog post]
Supporting Inclusion
- Anti-Racist Pedagogy: Resources for Getting Started [resource list]
- How to Get to Know Your Students [resource guide]
- Creating a Welcoming Classroom Environment [resource guide]
- Bibliography of Inclusive Teaching resources in the Reinert Center [pdf]
- Seeing the Diversity in Your Classroom [resource guide]
- Acknowledging Difference on the First Day [blog post]
- Queer Pedagogy [blog post]
- Inclusive Online Teaching [resource guide]
- Learning Styles Mini-Literature Review [Mini-Lit Review]
- Person-Centered Perspectives on Inclusive Teaching [blog post]
- Using Twitter to Promote Inclusive Learning [blog post]
- Active Listening to Support Inclusive Teaching [resource guide]
- Student Identity Development Theory [mini-literature review]
- Intersectionality in Action [blog post]
- Ignatian Pedagogy as Critical Pedagogy [blog post]
- Inclusive Teaching: Reflections on the Reinert Center's 2016-2017 Theme [blog post]
- Facilitating Diversity Discussions [blog post]
- Inclusive Teaching Checklist (Univ. of Tasmania)
- Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms (Linse & Weinstein)
- Difference Matters: A Resource on Diversity, Identity, and Communication (Brenda Allen, University of Colorado Denver)
- Diversity and Inclusive Teaching (Vanderbilt University)
- Faculty Toolkit for Engaging Campus Diversity (San Jose State University)
- Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary in the University Classroom (Vanderbilt University)
- Mental Health Conditions Toolkit (University of the Highlands and Islands)
- Avoiding Racial and Gender Bias When Writing Recommendation
Letters (resource guide)