Inclusive Teaching Resources
Inclusive Pedagogy for Teaching Assistants and Instructors
As the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” At its core, education creates opportunities for justice, and teaching from an inclusive framework reorients opportunities for those who have been marginalized by traditional educational practices. Inclusive frameworks and practices are integral to all teaching and curriculum development. Through this Inclusive Pedagogy for Teaching Assistants and Instructors monthly focus, The Graduate School will provide graduate students and postdoctoral trainees with tools to begin crafting intentional, inclusive, and anti-racist teaching practices. Through our website and e-newsletters, TGS will highlight on-campus resources and experts from across the nation.
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Searle Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Inclusive Teaching Resources
Digital Learning Inclusive Teaching Guide
- Northwestern’s Digital Learning Inclusive Teaching Guide has strategies, recommendations, tutorials, and resources that can assist in developing an inclusive learning environment in virtual classrooms.
Northwestern Accessibility Resources
- Northwestern’s AccessibleNU has valuable information for faculty and students about accessible teaching environments and universal design for learning.
- Learn more about maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for the Northwestern community and visitors to the community, digitally and in buildings/facilities through Northwestern’s Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Compliance Accessibility Resources Page.
- The Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Compliance offers a variety of Campus Trainings (informational sessions and workshops) designed to inform students, staff, faculty, and visitors about their rights and responsibilities as members of the Northwestern community and to equip community members with the tools to create a vibrant, equitable, and accessible learning environment for all.
The Office of the Provost's Northwestern Guide to Inclusive Learning Environments
School of Professional Studies Inclusive Teaching Resources
- Northwestern’s School of Professional Studies has resources to help instructors think about how to make their content more inclusive.
Feinberg School of Medicine Inclusive Learning Resources
- Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine has Inclusive Learning Environment information for medical school students that has applicability across graduate education.
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Guides
- Part of inclusive teaching explores the structural, institutional, and personal biases in communities and cultures. Here are some resources on anti-racist pedagogies, practices, and readings.
- Anti-Racist Resource Guide
- This document was created by Victoria Alexander, University of Maryland, to be used as a resource for anyone looking to broaden their understanding of anti-racism and get involved to combat racism, specifically as it relates to anti-Blackness and police violence. The guide contains a variety of resources to explore practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity, white supremacy, police violence, and injustice.
Inclusive Teaching Experts
- According to scholars Viji Sathy and Kelly A. Hogan, “Teaching inclusively means embracing student diversity in all forms — race, ethnicity, gender, disability, socioeconomic background, ideology, even personality traits like introversion — as an asset.” Sathy and Hogan argue that inclusive teaching expects courses to be designed and taught “in ways that foster talent in all students, but especially those who come from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education.”
- Check out their inclusive teaching resources at inclusifiED.
Big 10 Inclusive Teaching Resources
National Inclusive Teaching Resources
Additional Resources
Inclusive Teaching Research
- Asai, David. “To Learn Inclusion Skills, Make It Personal.” Nature 565, no. 7741 (January 29, 2019): 537. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00282-y.
- Hunter, Lisa, Scott Seagroves, Anne J. Metevier, Barry Kluger-Bell, Lynne Raschke, Patrik Jonsson, Jason Porter, Candice Brown, Gabriel Roybal, and Jerome Shaw. “Diversity and Equity in the Lab: Preparing Scientists and Engineers for Inclusive Teaching in Courses and Research Environments,” Learning from Inquiry in Practice, APS Conference Series, vol. 436, 2010, 21pp.
- Powell, Kendall. “Tech Tools to Make Research More Open and Inclusive.” Nature 578, no. 7793 (February 3, 2020): 181–82. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00216-z.
- Supiano, Beckie. “Traditional Teaching May Deepen Inequality. Can a Different Approach Fix It?” Chronicle of Higher Education, May 6, 2018. https://www-chronicle-com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/article/Traditional-Teaching-May/243339.
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Research
- Case, Alissa, and Ezekiel Joubert. “Teaching in Disruptive Bodies: Finding Joy, Resistance and Embodied Knowing through Collaborative Critical Praxis.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 33, no. 2 (2019): 192-201, DOI: 1080/09518398.2019.1681539
- Kishimoto, Kyoko. “Anti-Racist Pedagogy: From Faculty’s Self-reflection to Organizing within and beyond the Classroom.” Race Ethnicity and Education 21, no. 4 (2018): 540-554, https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2016.1248824
- Moore, Heather Cherie. “Teaching in Grief: Critical Reflections, Redefining Justice, and a Reorientation to Teaching.” Radical Teacher 106 (2016), DOI: 5195/rt.2016.303
- Powell, J., and A. Kelly. “Accomplices in the Academy in the Age of Black Lives Matter.” Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis 6, no. 2 (2017). https://doi.org/10.31274/jctp-180810-73