Some resources for the session “Designing an Inclusive Syllabus” (presented by William O’Hara, music, and Amy Evrard, anthropology) at the Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learning’s “August Pedagogy Institute.” Special thanks to JCCTL director Josef Brandauer for many of these leads!
This guide may evolve as Amy, Josef, and I add more!
“Syllabi as Tools for Creating Inclusive Classrooms” - a recent article in Advances in Physiology Education (2021) on the information contained by syllabi in the biological sciences, and how different information correlates with student success
How to systematically review your own syllabus, from the University of Southern California’s Center for Urban Education
A new resource on how faculty can support student mental health
Information from a previous year’s JCCTL session on the “Worst Syllabus Ever,” and how attendees at that session fixed it…
A few resources on Universal Design for Learning:
A quick introduction to UDL from Cornell’s teaching & learning center
Some more comprehensive UDL Guidelines from CAST
Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone, by Thomas J. Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling. Josef has copies of this in the JCCTL office!
Other resources:
A guide to “Backward Design” from Vanderbilt’s CFT
“Flexibility with Boundaries” from U of North Carolina
