Four Strategies to Engage the Multicultural Classroom

Designing for Diversity

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.

This 90-minute seminar is designed to enhance your professional understanding and engagement with diversity.

Starting with a current, operational definition of diversity and the four key points of entry into multicultural course design, your presenters guide you through a framework for creating and sustaining an inclusive classroom.

Benefits

The program provides 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 courses learning outcomes to diversity and social justice

Learning Goals

This seminar provides 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

Testimonials

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“Get ready to write like mad and take oodles of great notes! 🙂 Seriously, I have a hand cramp! 🙂 Worth every penny!” – Lauralyn McWilliams, Professor of Speech and Faculty Associate for the Center for Teaching and Learning, Montgomery College

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“This will help even if you have experience with this area of curriculum development.” – Kathy Ziga, North Carolina State University

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“[This seminar] provided an affirmation that the work I am doing in Diversity and faculty development is relevant and valid. It also provided meaningful encouragement that we must continue this good work in the area of culture and diversity.” – Lena Crouso, NCATE Diversity Chair and Assistant Professor of Education, Mount Vernon Nazarene University

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Audience

Four Strategies to Engage the Multicultural Classroom is not only for diversity experts.

The seminar is designed for all university faculty who teach across disciplines and in a variety of institutional settings.

Purchase

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Product Code: PC12EA