Inclusive Teaching
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.
- Four-Minute Focus Video: Gathering 'Round the Table?
- Strategies for Learning Student Names
- Tips for Using Student Names in Large Classes
- Supporting Neurodivergent Students in Group Discussions
- Practices for Inclusive Teaching in Asynchronous Distance Courses
- Practices for Inclusive Teaching in Synchronous Distance Courses
- 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
- Using Ground Rules to Support a Diverse Learning Environment
- Ignatian Pedagogy as Critical Pedagogy
- Facilitating Diversity Discussions
- Inclusive Teaching Checklist
- Teaching Beyond the Gender Binary in the University Classroom
- Preparing for Difficult Dialogues
- Avoiding Deficit Thinking by Emphasizing Cultural Wealth
- Understanding Stereotype Threat
- Reducing Stereotype Threat in the Classroom
- Avoiding Microaggressions in the Classroom
- Instructor Identity: Student Implicit Bias
- Implicit Bias
- Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom
- Who Are You Excluding? Seeing the Diversity in Your Classroom
- Strategies for Anti-Racist Classrooms
- Four-Minute Focus: Proceeding in an Orderly Fashion?
- Four-Minute Focus: Are Students Lost in the Wilderness?
- Supporting Affective Executive Functioning Skills
- Supporting Cognitive Executive Functioning Skills
- Coffee Break(er)
- Features of an Inclusive Syllabus
- What is Universal Design for Learning
- Designing Visually Accessible Slides
- 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
- Using Generative AI to Support Neurodiverse Learners
- Assessment in Diverse Classrooms
- Prioritizing Exam Integrity among International Students
- Transparent Assignments
- Creating Inclusive Course Assignments
- Five Resources on Responding to Written Work from English Language Learners
- Culturally Responsive Assessment