Preparing for Winter Term: Creating Inclusive Classrooms

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Getting ready to meet your Winter Term classes? As you gear up for a new semester, it's a great time to make sure you're keeping a broad range of students in mind. CRLT provides many resources to help you effectively teach diverse students, no matter what your area of specialization. One of our "Preparing to Teach" resources, this page on Creating Inclusive Classrooms [2] offers concrete guidance on several aspects of inclusive teaching, including:

• course content
• classroom dynamics
• instructor assumptions

For additional resources to support your teaching of U-M's diverse student body, you can visit our Multicultural Teaching [3] page or click on the "Multicultural Teaching" link at the bottom of any CRLT page. The printed version of our GSI Guidebook--distributed to everyone who attends one of our GSI Teaching Orientations and available to U-M instructors upon request--also contains helpful guidance on these issues, including the chapter "Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom" from Barbara Gross Davis's book Tools for Teaching [4]. More general resources to help you finalize your Winter Term plans can be found on our Preparing to Teach [5] page (under the "Resources and Publications" menu above).