Commitment with diversity, inclusion and equality Flashcards
What does it mean to you to be effective in an environment that values diversity and equity?
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Can Have a Huge Positive effect
- positive environment
- multicultural experience
- open to hear and learn with a diverse group of students
- prepared to evolve as a human being, identify our own bias
What are some pedagogical techniques you employ to ensure your teaching is responsive across different identities and backgrounds?
- > build a positive environment
- get to know my students
- I am open to dialogue
- deadline flexibility
- classes focusing on students interest
- office hours
- learning environment
- > build a multicultural environment
- different types of learners
- invite different social actors, stakeholders and researchers to the classroom
How do you draw upon your student’s prior knowledge, backgrounds, and lived experiences in order to inform your teaching, research and service?
- Teacher diary and Students evaluation of the course
- Multicultural environment
- Build a positive classroom environment
A positive classroom environment is one in which students feel comfortable sharing their thoughts, taking risks, asking questions and confronting challenges in their learning.
Presenting clear classroom expectations
Provide opportunities to improve social skills
Build relationships with my students and offer relevant content.
I try to clarify the expectations and reasons for collaboration before I allow them to work in groups or pairs.
Show the relevance of curriculum and lessons. I want the students to feel they are connected to the content culturally, socially and personally.
I am open to feedback - Encourage collaboration
- be there for them
How does epistemic diversity play a role in your scholarship and teaching?
Epistemic diversity is the ability or possibility of producing diverse and rich epistemic apparati to make sense of the world around us.
Reflecting on questions of epistemological nature can help educators to be more intentional in their teaching
There are five outcomes of cross-cultural encounters: assimilation, miscibility, and being different together (including unity in diversity, harmony with diversity, and together with diversity).
How does your approach to teaching bring in readings and research produced by underrepresented scholars or about underrepresented people and communities into the learning process?
How do you affirm and engage diverse perspectives in the classroom?
- positive environment -> discussions
- emails - names and pronoums
- office hours
- on demand class
What techniques do you have for drawing on your students’ knowledge?
How have you (or could you) use data to identify differences in experiences and outcomes across diverse students in your class? Please describe your process of doing so (or how you could do it if you do not already). What would you do (have done) once you notice these differences?
How do you recruit and support racially diverse graduate students? What successes have you had? What challenges have you encountered?
Tell me about an instance where you adapted your teaching or mentoring approach in order to work more effectively with students who have identities that are different from yours?
