Diverse Pedagogies in Your Classroom

Last year many Elon faculty discussed the state of diversity in our classrooms. In those conversations, faculty frequently expressed both a desire for support in implementing diverse pedagogies into the classroom as well as ambivalence in undertaking course design they deemed as “a risk that brings negative consequences on student evaluations.” This workshop seeks to address these dual concerns by providing faculty with tools to transform an existing course or create a new course that reflects the inclusion of diverse content and use of diverse pedagogies as well as ways to document that transformation.

This is an active workshop. It will introduce faculty to resources on diverse pedagogies and inclusive course content, but the majority of the time will be devoted to the identification of goals for course transformation, brainstorming on strategies to use in a specific course(s), and receiving feedback from fellow workshop participants. As a result, faculty should bring their laptops to take full advantage.

Dr. Crystal Anderson, the Multicultural Faculty Fellow, will facilitate this workshop.