A new resource guide on Avoiding Microaggressions in the Classroom[LINK] has been posted to the Reinert Center website [LINK]. If you want to talk with someone about microaggressions in your own classes, you may request a teaching consultation by completing this form [LINK]. If you have ideas for resource guide topics you would like to see posted, share them here [LINK].
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What Should We Know about Stereotype Threat?
Recently, the Reinert Center hosted two book group discussions on Claude Steele’s Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do. A readable distillation of Steele’s social psychological research on stereotypes and identity (as well as subsequent research inspired by his work), the book can help us to understand educational performance gaps between… Continue reading What Should We Know about Stereotype Threat?
Facilitating Diversity Discussions
by James Fortney, Instructional Developer, Reinert Center For me, inclusive teaching often begins with the selection of a text that engages diversity as a significant theme (e.g., Alvarez, Bauer, & Eger, 2015). By text, I mean anything from research studies to YouTube videos to service-learning sites. How I select a text depends on the goals… Continue reading Facilitating Diversity Discussions
New Resource Guides
Two new resource guides have been posted to the Reinert Center website: Creating a Plan for Alternative Assessment of Teaching [LINK] Understanding Student Ratings in Teaching [LINK] If you want to talk with someone about either of these topics in your own classes, you may request a teaching consultation by completing this form [LINK]. If you have ideas for resource… Continue reading New Resource Guides
Instructor Identity: Student Implicit Bias
by Gina Merys, Associate Director, Reinert Center As part of our year-long theme, Inclusive Teaching, we have been focusing on ways in which instructors can create equitable learning environments for all of their students. While we examine the variety of student needs and identities in our classrooms, it can be easy to forget that instructor… Continue reading Instructor Identity: Student Implicit Bias
Course Design Strategies for Student Identity Development
by Chris Grabau, Instructional Developer, Reinert Center Student identity development is an expanding interdisciplinary field that strives to identify, describe, predict, and explain behaviors that shape identity (Evans, Forney, Guido, Renn, Patton, 2010). One of the main focus areas for the field is the study of psychosocial events that help shape student identity as college… Continue reading Course Design Strategies for Student Identity Development
New Resource Guide on Difficult Dialogues
A new resource guide on Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom[LINK] has been posted to the Reinert Center website [LINK]. If you want to talk with someone about difficult dialogues in your own classes, you may request a teaching consultation by completing this form [LINK]. If you have ideas for resource guide topics you would like to… Continue reading New Resource Guide on Difficult Dialogues
Implicit Bias
by Sandy Gambill, Sr. Instructional Developer, Reinert Center Implicit bias is not a new concept, as the 28,100,000 returns on a Google search demonstrate. However, it is a concept that is being discussed in a wide range of situations lately, including the first presidential debate [LINK] of the 2016 election cycle. Harvard’s Project Implicit [LINK] offers perhaps… Continue reading Implicit Bias
Creating Inclusive Course Assignments
A new resource guide on Creating Inclusive Course Assignments [LINK to PDF] has been posted to the Reinert Center website. If you want to talk with someone about designing more inclusive assignments in your own classes, you may request a teaching consultation by completing this form (LINK). If you have ideas for resource guide topics… Continue reading Creating Inclusive Course Assignments
Focus on Teaching & Technology Conference: Nov. 3-4
SLU faculty and graduate students are invited to attend the 2016 Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference (FTTC) on November 2-3 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The two-day conference features presentations, workshops, and exhibits on emerging trends and effective uses of technology in higher education. Several SLU faculty and instructors are scheduled to present including: Simone… Continue reading Focus on Teaching & Technology Conference: Nov. 3-4
The Notebook 