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.
- Coffee Break(er)
- Features of an Inclusive Syllabus
- Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education
- Equal Access: Universal Design of Instruction
- Statements about Course Content
- Universal Instructional Design for Inclusive Syllabi
- Course Design Strategies for Student Identity Development
- Accessible Syllabus Project
- Overcoming Common Instructor Concerns about Culturally Responsive Teaching
- How to Encourage Cross-Cultural Engagement: A Brief Primer
- How to Get to Know Your Students
- Fostering Cross-Cultural Relationships with International Students
- Creating a Welcoming Classroom Environment
- Bibliography of Inclusive Teaching resources in the Reinert Center
- Seeing the Diversity in Your Classroom
- Acknowledging Difference on the First Day
- Queer Pedagogy
- Inclusive Online Teaching
- Person-Centered Perspectives on Inclusive Teaching
- Active Listening to Support Inclusive Teaching
- Student Identity Development Theory
- Intersectionality in Action
- Teaching with Accommodations in the Classroom
- Ignatian Pedagogy as Critical Pedagogy
- Facilitating Diversity Discussions
- Inclusive Teaching Checklist
- Faculty Toolkit for Engaging Campus Diversity
- Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary in the University Classroom
- Mental Health Conditions Toolkit