The Inclusive STEM Teaching Project

Throughout this six-week online course, we will ask you to engage in deep reflection and discussions around topics of equity and inclusion in learning environments across a variety of institutional contexts. This course is designed to improve our participants’ awareness, self-efficacy, and ability of doctoral students, postdocs, and faculty to create inclusive STEM learning environments for their students. To center the identity of faculty and students and facilitate deep reflection, we employ key features including: embodied case studies, affinity spaces, and an inclusivity framework portfolio. These activities are collectively designed to nurture a transformative mindset and help our participants reflect deeply on key identity-related aspects of each module as they go through the course, and to help them apply these aspects in tangible ways to their own teaching and learning contexts.

Participants in this course will...

• Examine issues of diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education

• Reflect on their own and their students’ identities and experiences

• Question their assumptions about all aspects of instruction

• Identify and implement learner-centered structures and strategies

• Apply principles of evidence-based inclusive teaching

• Use their student learning data and feedback to inform pedagogical and curricular choices