Four Strategies to Engage the Multicultural Classroom

Diversity is the name of the game in higher education today, but facilitating a genuinely multicultural classroom requires more than a fresh set of labels.

Join us Tuesday, April 10, at 1:00 pm CST, for Four Strategies to Engage the Multicultural Classroom, a 90-minute audio online seminar with Dr. Mathew L. Ouellett and Dr. Christine A. Stanley, designed to enhance your professional understanding and engagement with diversity.

Dr. Ouellett, is the Associate Director of the Center for Teaching & Faculty Development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Dr. Stanley is Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity and Professor of Higher Education Administration at Texas A&M University.

Starting with a current, operational definition of “diversity” and the four key points of entry into multicultural course design, Dr. Ouellett and Dr. Stanley, will guide you through a framework for creating and sustaining an inclusive classroom.

What You’ll Learn

This seminar will provide you with a comprehensive model for working with diversity issues.  You’ll learn:

• An enhanced definition of diversity, going beyond race and gender
• A framework for multicultural course design and operation
• Appropriate techniques for critical discussion in a multicultural classroom
• Teaching strategies to promote diversity in your classes.

Drs. Ouellett and Stanley will provide practical information you can use right away, such as how to:

• Use self-assessment, student feedback and professional development throughout your career to enhance your ability to teach inclusively
• Build mutually educational relationships with colleagues from different backgrounds
• Solicit and incorporate useful feedback from students
• Link your course’s learning outcomes to diversity and social justice.

How You’ll Learn

This interactive seminar is grounded in a practical approach.  Drs. Ouellett and Stanley will kick off the session with a brief writing exercise, in which you’ll explore the multicultural learning outcomes, activities and assessments you have planned for a course you’ll teach.  You’ll revisit this statement at the seminar’s end, in light of what you learned.  Other session activities include demonstration of diversity activity and an extensive Q&A session.

Learn From Experts

Dr. Stanley has extensive experience in higher education, both as an administrator and as an educator. She received the Robert Pierleoni Spirit Award from the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education for her leadership in diversity and faculty development, and she has consulted on faculty development nationally and internationally. 

Dr. Ouellett, Associate Director of the Center for Teaching & Faculty Development, partners with faculty and academic administrators campus-wide on initiatives that support teaching excellence, respect, and inclusion; directs the Lilly Fellows Program; and is a lecturer in the Department of Student Development.

Who This Seminar Targets 

Four Strategies to Engage the Multicultural Classroom is not only for diversity experts.  The session is designed for faculty who teach across disciplines and in a variety of institutional settings.

Unbeatable Value

Magna Online Seminar fees are assessed on a per site basis, so you and all your colleagues interested in improving your ability to teach inclusively can attend from one location for one low fee of $349.

And There’s More

When you sign up for the seminar, you automatically receive a CD of the proceedings.  Not only that, just in case something comes up on Tuesday, April 10, at 1:00 pm CST, once you’ve registered, the seminar is available online and on demand for a full week afterwards!

Other support materials to help you implement what you learn include:

• Guidelines for next steps
• Sample documents
• Rubrics
• Do’s and Don’ts
• List of additional resources
• Prompts for self-assessment
• Ideas to spark further discussion.

Sign Up Now

Diversity is the future and the future won’t wait.  Register today to take your teaching into the 21^st century.

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