Strategy 2.1.1 (Teaching Practices)
Offer faculty, staff, and graduate students professional development opportunities and other resources focused on inclusive and anti-racist teaching practices
Owners/Accountable Party
- Provost
- Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Actions
Near-term Actions
- Offer professional development and resources focused on equity-minded teaching practices and curricular design, e.g.:
- provide best practices for facilitating challenging conversations in the classroom
- provide Universal Design for Learning training, focused on application to teaching
- provide faculty trainings on OER resources
- Continually build and promote OOLD repository of self-education resources for teaching e.g., online trainings, readings, Mansfield Library Resources Against Racism guide, etc.
- Develop a faculty-generated best practices for equitable teaching resource that includes a self-evaluation checklist that can be promoted by Faculty Senate and ASCRC
- Link to these OOLD resources and trainings from a central Diversity website
Future Actions
- Expand faculty use of Open Educational Resources to reduce the cost of books
Completed and Ongoing Actions
- Established the Office of Organizational Learning and Development
- Established an Inclusive Teaching Practices repository of resources
- Ongoing offering through the Office of Organizational Learning and Development focused on inclusive pedagogy (e.g., Learning on Indigenous Land: Practicing and Inclusive Pedagogy)