Community & Belonging
On this page, you will find resources to support a healthy classroom community centered on belonging. You will discover quick and easy tips in the form of Teaching Tools in a Flash, links and recordings from our Past Events, and opportunities to engage more deeply with a Workshop in a Flash. If you find something you want to try out, consider scheduling a consultation or applying for a Teaching Recognition Award.
Inclusive teaching and learning denotes pedagogical methods, techniques and approaches that take into account the diverse needs and backgrounds of all students ensuring that they feel valued and welcomed in the classroom.
A student questionnaire is an easy, effective tool you can create and implement in your class that can transform your interactions with your class, decrease student anxiety, and yield insights into the needs and backgrounds of the students in your section.
The syllabus is usually the first introduction students have to your course. This Teaching Tool provides you with tips to ensure that the syllabus is a document that can engage students in their learning.
Cultural Humility focuses on people who engage in a process of "openness, self-awareness, being egoless, and incorporating self-reflection and critique after willingly interacting with diverse individuals."
Providing students opportunity to build connections between class topics and real-life examples can improve student engagement in your course.
Designing community agreements allows students to feel safer, a greater sense of agency, establish greater trust, and better situates themselves to be able to learn.
Culturally inclusive teaching recognizes and capitalizes on the diversity of learning backgrounds in order to enrich the learning experience of all students.
The diversity of ideas, perspectives, and experiences of students can present unique opportunities and challenges for dialogue within the classroom. This Teaching Tool seeks to provide a process for facilitating challenging conversations within the classroom through the use of Non-Violent Communication (NVC).
OERs are freely available educational resources that seek to promote wider access to high-quality education across the globe.
Supportive Connections & Conversations with First Gen Students
This interactive workshop explored strategies for supporting First Gen students by building supportive connections and conversations.
Breaking Barriers: Strategies for Faculty to Support Equity and Inclusion for Parenting and Caregiving Students
This workshop will equip faculty members with strategies for building equity and inclusion for parenting and caregiving in their undergraduate and graduate courses.
Collaborative Learning: Fostering Identity Safety and Community in the Classroom
This session will discuss evidence-based strategies for collaborative learning that both reinforce learning and build bridges in our classrooms.
Workshops in a Flash are 15 minute mobile mini-workshops, facilitated by CTL staff. They are designed to be delivered to groups of instructors during informal gatherings or departmental meetings. Workshops in a Flash are meant to start exploration of a chosen topic with continued support from the Center as requested.