Teaching and Learning Lab:
Inclusive Teaching Practices

What is Inclusive Teaching?

• The Research Basis for Inclusive Teaching and Universal Design for Learning 

  • Frameworks through which to think about inclusive teaching.
     

• Creating Inclusive College Classrooms (University of Michigan Center for Research on Teaching & Learning)

  • Inclusive classrooms are classrooms in which instructors and students work together to create and sustain an environment in which everyone feels safe, supported, and encouraged to express her or his views and concerns.
     

• Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom by Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy

  • Ebook at Fleet Library (RISD access)

Inclusive Teaching Practices

• Inclusive Teaching Resources and Strategies (University of Michigan Center for Research on Teaching & Learning) 
  • This page features a range of online resources that define inclusive teaching and provide specific strategies for practicing it.
     
• The Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning (Brown University) 
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• Reflecting on Your Practice: Applying Inclusive Teaching Principles (University of Michigan Center for Research on Teaching & Learning) 
  • A self-assessment tool.

Preparing for and Responding to Difficult Moments in the Classroom

• Difficult Dialogues (Vanderbilt Center for Teaching) 
   
• Teaching in Times of Stress and Challenge (Columbia University Center for Teaching & Learning)
   
• Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom by Lee Warren
   
• Making the Most of Hot Moments in the Classroom (University of Michigan Center for Research on Teaching & Learning)
   
• Civility in the Classroom: A Better Approach by Richard K. Olsen and Vernon Cronen
   
• Reflective Action Facilitation Framework and Case Study Handout (Harvard Initiative for Learning & Teaching)

Diverse Learners in the Classroom

• ASHE Higher Education Report (2012) Special Issue: Engaging Diversity in Undergraduate Classrooms: A Pedagogy for Developing Intercultural Competence, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 1-132.
  • Available at the Fleet Library (RISD access)
     
• Disability Rights and Disability Justice Inclusion Resources:
  Content and Pedagogies (Compiled in 2023 by Elizabeth Maynard, PhD and Courtnie Wolfgang, PhD)
   
• Please consult RISD’s Disability Support Services site for tips on how to support students
   
• Creating Accessible Learning Environments (Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching) and Tips for Engaging with Different Disabilities (University of Washington) 
  • These sites provide additional resources and guidelines to help faculty support student learning. 
     
• How to Help First Generation Students Succeed by Mikhail Zinshteyn
   
• Culturally Diverse Learners (Centre for Teaching and Learning at Thompson Rivers University)
  • While this resource is designed for the general classroom, there are suggested practices that can be adapted to the studio classroom.
     
• Teaching International Students: Pedagogical Issues and Strategies (University of Michigan Center for Research on Teaching & Learning)
   
• ​​For Faculty: Teaching Multilingual Learners (RISD Center for Arts & Language)
  • Teaching Multilingual Learners: further reading
     
• Multilingual Learners Hub (RISD Center for Arts & Language)
   
• Cross Cultural Group Work (University of Michigan Center for Research on Teaching & Learning)
  • Research on teamwork in professional contexts illuminates the issues that arise for students as well.

Care with Language in the Classroom

• RISD's Guidelines on the use of racial epithets, slurs, and other offensive material in the classroom 
   
• Think Before you Speak
  • A presentation on the use of inclusive language in everyday life and its benefits towards community cohesion.
     
• ‘Ask Me’: What LGBTQ Students Want Their Professors to Know by Julia Schmalz
  • Transgender and gender-nonbinary students share what keeps them from feeling safe and thriving on campus.
     
• LGBTQ+ Glossary

Understanding Privilege

• An Instructor's Guide to Understanding Privilege (University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts)
   
• White Privilege and Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

RISD Resources

• RISD’s Inclusive Education: A short guide for faculty
   
• The Room of Silence 
  • Presented by BAAD (Black Artists and Designers), filmed and edited by Eloise Sherrid, “The Room of Silence” is a short film documenting a small fraction of interviews and testimonials conducted by marginalized students at RISD.
     
• Mapping Identities: Literature Review 
  • A resource developed by RISD students Naomi Bradford, FAV ’19 and Jane Long, MFA ’15.