#inclusiveteaching — Public Fediverse posts

It's 2024 and we're still doing laptop bans in classrooms, huh?

For the millionth time, technology bans are incredibly ableist. There's no discussion to be had.

Requiring disabled students to out themselves as disabled in order to use their technology in class makes you a poor educator.

#AcademicAbleism #HigherEd #InclusiveTeaching #Accessibility #College #Inclusion

Today, I'll be presenting a second paper at #ASEEannual. This paper summarizes lessons shared through The Grainger College of Engineering Lab & Design Community of Practice over the past three years. We hope it will help other instructors teaching undergraduate engineering laboratory courses. Stop by the @asee_nee Technical Session at 1:30 pm in E144 to learn more. If you can't make it check out the details here: https://go.engineering.illinois.edu/CoP24Paper

#academicmastodon #AcademicFedi #academicChatter #Laboratory #Teaching #higherEd #STEM #engineering #engineeringEducation #engEd #Teams #teachingassistant #inclusiveTeaching #undergraduate

Timely reminder that disabilities are fluid. A person may be symptomatic one day and fine the next. A student may not need accommodations during the semester, but the end of the term rush may make accommodations very necessary. This does NOT mean the student is faking it or taking advantage of you.

#AcademicAbleism #AcademicChatter #InclusiveTeaching #HigherEd

Access is not (only) using alt text. Access is considering the barriers in place for disabled folks and removing as many of them as possible. It's using plain language, it's color contrast, it's knowing that access needs can sometimes conflict. Access is a moving target but it's worth moving for.

#accessibility #InclusiveTeaching #AccessIsLove

If it is important information, it needs to be given to students in MULTIPLE forms. You cannot omit important info from your slides, only speak that info verbally, test (in some form) that info, and then be surprised or upset when they don't do well. Some students have #AuditoryProcessingDisorder, others might be hard of hearing, others #ADHD, etc. The diagnosis & the #disability (official or not) do not matter; the #accessibility does. Your #teaching is not accessible.

#UDL #InclusiveTeaching

I was in London yesterday, to see A Strange Loop, and watching that powerful reflection on the impact of religious-based homophobia (especially on the same day as London’s Pride festival!) reinforced the importance to me of ensuring Religious Education in UK schools doesn’t reproduce religious bigotry, and that it actively challenges harmful religious narratives of exclusion that can make our LGBTQ+ students feel victimised and attacked in the supposedly safe-space of the classroom rather than amplify them. I speak about some of the ways I’ve tried to challenge religious homo/trans/bi phobia in my own RE teaching in my book, Anarchist Atheist Punk Rock Teacher ( https://www.earthislandbooks.com/product-page/anarchist-atheist-punk-rock-teacher-by-dan-mckee ) and recommend it as reading for any current RE/RS teacher.

#RETeacher #RE #ReligiousEducation #Pride2023 #LondonPride #AStrangeLoop #AnarchistAtheistPunkRockTeacher #LGBTQ #Pride #Teaching #Education #InclusiveTeaching #Book

Weight #Bias in the College Classroom https://mountsaintvincent.edu/weight-bias-in-the-college-classroom/
Summary of #ClosedAccess article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/87567555.2021.1978378
"In the article, I make a call for inclusive teaching practices, such as taking the lead in forming student teams instead of letting students choose up their own teams."
Advice on composing student groups: https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/teach/instructionalstrategies/groupprojects/compose.html
#InclusiveTeaching #Equity #HigherEd

@Bearica welcome! Hope to see the #ibl #inclusiveteaching and similar communities grow strong here. 😀