This 12-week program engages UMN STEM faculty, instructors, post-docs, graduate students, and staff in learning, discussion, and reflection that guide and deepen the creation of inclusive learning environments. The program is coming soon in Spring 2025.
Program Overview
This cohort experience is designed to advance the awareness, self-efficacy, and the ability of faculty, instructors, and postdocs to cultivate inclusive STEM learning environments for all their students and to develop themselves as reflective, inclusive practitioners.
Participants engage in six asynchronous Canvas modules from the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project over a 12-week period. Every other week participants will engage in a facilitated interactive zoom session with a small cohort of colleagues from the UMN system.
Learning Outcomes
Participants in this program 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
Topics and Schedule
Across five modules, participants acquire knowledge and strategies to construct classroom environments that support the complexities that contribute to student persistence: social identity and its impact on learning; power, positionality, and privilege; inclusive course design; interruption of oppression and microaggressions; and evidence-based teaching.
Module 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Module 2: Instructor Identity and Authority in STEM Classrooms
Module 3: Student Identities and Experiences in the STEM Classroom
Module 4: Creating an Inclusive STEM Course
Module 5: Fostering an Inclusive Climate in the STEM Course
Schedule
Schedule to be determined for Spring 2025.
Who Should Attend
This course is for UMN STEM faculty, instructors, postdocs, graduate students and staff who would like to cultivate inclusive learning environments for their learners. Participants are expected to enter the course recognizing 1) racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, ageism, classism, etc. are real and present and 2) being a reflective, inclusive instructor is a lifelong process of discovery that requires continuous learning.
Questions?
Contact Dr. Barbara Billington, [email protected]