Diversity in Teaching – how to create a diversity-friendly learning environment
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Target audience
University teachersGoals
After this course participants will be able to…
- name criteria for good, diversity-friendly teaching.
- critically scrutinize the structure of their own course and make adjustments in terms of diversity- appropriate teaching.
- design learning scenarios combining these forms of instructions to create coherent learning experiences.
- identify teaching and learning situations in which unconscious bias can have a negative impact.
- develop anti-bias strategies and adapt them for their own practice.
Content
Students and university teachers are diverse and bring different perspectives, experiences and learning approaches to university courses. Lecturers are facing the task of doing justice to this heterogeneity on the one hand and integrating it gainfully into the course on the other. In the workshop "Diversity in Teaching – how to create a diversity-friendly learning environment", participants will look at how fair framework conditions can be created for all students and how individual learning approaches can be supported. In addition, they will question themselves in their role as lecturers, scrutinize their own teaching practice with regard to unconscious assumptions and learn how to implement anti-bias strategies.
Methods
- Inputs
- Plenary discussions
- individual reflection
- work in pairs
- work in groups
- presentation of the results from group sessions in the plenary
Teacher
Ines Köhler
Ines Köhler is Head of the Gender and Diversity Management at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and diversity trainer. In the lectures and workshops offered, she focuses on the topics of unconscious bias and diversity-oriented teaching.
Additional information
This course will take place online. Total Workload: 8h (2 x 4h)
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Diversity in Teaching – how to create a diversity-friendly learning environment
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