How Do I Write an Inclusive Syllabus?
This page covers the six principles of an inclusive syllabus design: learning-focused, essential questions, UDL connections, inclusive & motivating language, supportive course policies, and accessible design.
How Do I Provide Flexibility and Ensure Attendance?
Instructors can help students make more positive decisions about class attendance by discussing how attendance supports their learning, supplying guidance on how to use supplemental course materials, and promoting incentives rather than penalties.
How Do I Ease Student Anxieties through Intentional Course Design and Instruction?
Would it surprise you to hear that nearly a third of the learners you see may have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, as national data suggests (Stearns, 2022)? This page details how instructors can make course design decisions that ease student anxiety, increase wellbeing, and make learning more possible.
How Do I Support Students with Compassion and Empathy?
Faculty can support student learning by designing courses to include compassion, communicating often, and connecting students to wellbeing resources on campus.
How Do I Support Students Whose Speech and Privacy Might Be Limited?
It is important that you have a plan for helping students minimize their own risk so they can have the best possible educational experience.
How Do I Support International Students in My Classes?
We can support our international students through relationship building, explicit communication, resources, relevant course content, cognitive load, scaffolding, various ways of participation.
How Do I Engage Students in Difficult Class Discussions Around Sensitive Topics?
Practices and strategies that you can use to help you and your students talk in ways that support positive engagement and minimize harm and unproductive conflict.
How Do I Choose Between Dialogue, Debate and Discussion to Explore Challenging Topics?
Each structure has its own goal and process. Depending on your learning objectives, class environment, and course content, one structure might make better sense for you and your students.
How Do I Navigate Hot Moments in the Classroom?
Strategies for navigating and managing yourself during hot moments during class discussions, and helping students process conflict.
How Do I Increase Student Engagement with Participation Agreements?
Students engage and participate when there is a class climate in which they feel safe, supported, and encouraged to express their thoughts, values, experiences, and perspectives.
How Do I Submit an Academic Alert?
Faculty and instructors often identify students who seem to be struggling academically in their classes--missing class sessions, performing poorly on exams, or failing to turn in assignments. The Academic Alert Initiative can help faculty and their students by providing faculty with a powerful way to connect with their students and offering students a community of support and a wide range of resources.
