Inclusive Teaching Resources:

Understand Your Students

Who are your students? What backgrounds and experiences do they bring to class which influence how they learn from you?

• Who are the Students?
• Getting to Know the Students in Your Class
• Linking Course Content to Students' Prior Knowledge
• Responding to Difficult Situations with Students

Understand Your Students

Who are the Students?

Demographic Profiles of the UW Student Body from the UW Factbook

Diversity at the UW

• Diversity Resources
• UW Statistics Relating to Diversity

The Chronicle of Higher Education Freshman Survey, update annually

Group Profiles. Part 2 of Teaching for Inclusion, a publication of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Mindset List, published annually by Beloit College, highlighting life experiences and perspectives of this year's incoming freshman class

Office of Educational Assessment - Student and Alumni Surveys

Students with Disabilities

• Resources for Post-Secondary Faculty: Pedagogy and Classroom Practices
• Working Together: Faculty and Students with Disabilities

UW Climate Studies: How welcoming is our campus?

• Things We Know About the Climate for Undergraduate Learning at UW, from the UW Climate and Community Project

UW Study of Undergraduate Learning (UW SOUL)

Understand Your Students

Getting to Know Your Students

Catalyst Tools to create on-line opportunities for student interaction

First Day of Class ideas to help you get to know your students

Classroom Assessment Tools for ongoing formative assessment of students in your course

Midterm Class Interviews for student feedback partway through the course

Design Your Own Ways of Collecting Student Feedback

Name Pronunciation Guide, designed to help native speakers of English more accurately pronounce common Asian names, from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Understand Your Students

Linking Course Content and Student Prior Learning

Classroom Assessment of Teaching and Learning

Do You Know Where Your Students Are? Speaking of Teaching, 4(2), from the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University

What They Don't Know Can Hurt Them: The Role of Prior Knowledge in Learning, by Marilla Svinicki, University of Texas

Understand Your Students

Responding to Difficult Situations with Students

Arizona State University Intergroup Relations Center:

• Guidelines for Constructive Dialogue in the Classroom (pdf)
• Conflict De-escalation Strategies (pdf)
• Suggested Groundrules for Discussion (pdf)

Dealing with Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom, by Kathleen McKinney, Illinois State University

Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom, from the Derek Bok Center at Harvard University

Practical Strategies to Reduce or Eliminate Student Incivility, from the article, Reducing Incivility in the University / College Classroom, by Patrick J. Morrissette

Responding to Distressed Students, from the University of California at Santa Barbara

Threatening Classroom Situations: Planning Guide for Faculty and TAs

Other Inclusive Teaching Resources

• Understand Yourself as the Instructor
• Consider How You Teach
• Consider What You Teach