Short, practical advice for making teaching and learning more inclusive.
“Writing in the margins has always been an essential activity for students. Annotation helps in reading comprehension and in developing critical thinking about course materials. Adding Hypothesis for collaborative web annotation in Canvas supports student success by placing...
Evergreen is removing pronouns from narrative student evaluations. For this week’s Inclusive Teaching Tip, we are boosting this recent announcement from our Academic Deans. Why is this an equity practice? When we write...
Targeted Supports – A small effort can have a big impact Targeted Supports, also coined by researchers as psychosocial interventions are actions or activities that focus on specific educational issues by addressing the underlying...
All Learners Welcome – It’s never to late to apply an equity lens to your syllabus A new quarter brings a new focus on the syllabus. There has been much written on this document...
Congratulations to Frederica Bowcut on her recent publication in Ethnobiology Letters, “Creation of a Field Guide to Camas Prairie Plants with Undergraduates: Project-Based Learning Combined with Epistemological Decolonization.” Frederica’s essay explores how “…interdisciplinary inquiry...
Use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Remove Barriers to Learning Universal design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that accommodates individual learning differences by intentionally seeking and removing barriers experienced by diverse students....
We are substituting this week’s Inclusive teaching tip with a rainbow🌈 of readings (and a podcast). Pick one or two that tickle your fancy and dig in! A Talk to Teachers speech by James...
How do you plan a new program or course? Imagine, you’ve cleared your schedule of distractions and are meeting with your teaching partners ready to start planning. What is the first thing that comes...
Narrative evaluations are one of the unique elements of studying at Evergreen. Narrative evaluations provide a summative evaluation of student learning at the end of a quarter or program. They also provide formative assessment...
The Inclusive Teaching Tip is brought to you by our colleagues in Academic & Career Advising, who have distilled what they are hearing from students into five hot tips. Five Things you can do to...