Resources

Two-page PDF on the Indiana University website with seven quick tips on improving communication with culturally diverse students. Examples: learn names; listen; and limit unclear language.

Provides 12 tips on enhancing student learning when teaching issues of diversity in the college classroom. Examples: Gain awareness of biases; specify course objectives; encourage higher order thinking skills; and create and safe and engaging classroom climate. Includes links to more detailed discussion of each tip.

Chronicle of Higher Education article (May 2013). Discusses experiences of an openly gay professor teaching a year-long first-year core course. He struggles with fear of teaching a text that dealt with issues of homosexuality while also allowing an open forum for discussion.

Focuses on issues relating to “international students.” Discusses major differences between U.S. and international students in terms of background and understanding of academic environment. Provides suggestions for instructor on coping with cultural differences.

Provides suggestions for instructors of college students with disabilities. Highlights confidentiality issues and syllabus preparation including accommodation and modification statements.

PDF includes 13 essays by faculty at the University of Colorado who participated in a Faculty Teaching Excellence Program. Faculty in various disciplines wrote essays with specific teaching tips addressing particular forms of diversity. Those essays were collected into this volume.

Discusses five aspects of creating an inclusive classroom: course content choices; awareness of assumptions; course planning; getting to know students; and awareness during the process of teaching.

Summer 2013 article in AAC&U’s journal “Diversity and Democracy.” Uses survey data to argue for the importance of inclusive learning environments and incorporating diversity into teaching and learning.

(Essays on Teaching Excellence, Toward the Best in the Academy Volume 19, Number 5, 2007) Short article that argues "One of the reasons role-play can work so wellis because of the power of placing oneself in another’s shoes. This provides opportunities for learning in both the affective domain, where emotions and values are involved, as well as in the cognitive domain." But to be effective role-playing must have clear objectives and intentional debriefings. where experiences are analyzed

Overview of How and Why to Use Role-Playing, Including a collection of role-playing scenarios