Teaching Strategies: Multiculturalism / Diversity in Teaching
American society is becoming increasingly diverse. As colleges and universities begin to reflect this diversity, teachers across academic disciplines try to understand students’ varied backgrounds and experiences. Instructors also try to find new ways to foster a safe and open learning environment for all students. The articles and links in this section describe student differences and their implications for teaching and learning. There is also a list of additional resources on a variety of topics related to multiculturalism and diversity.
AACU/University
of Maryland Diversity Web
http://www.diversityweb.org
DiversityWeb is an interactive resource hub designed to support colleges and universities in their efforts to create settings that foster students' understanding of the intersection between domestic and global issues and their sense of responsibility as local and global citizens. The site contains information about diversity innovations relative to institutional leadership, faculty and student development, and curriculum change. It also provides information about research trends and evaluation.
Understanding Prejudice:
Teacher’s Corner
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/teach/
This page contains links to teaching ideas, materials, and resources (including more than 35 college-level classroom activities and student assignments) about prejudice, discrimination, multiculturalism, and diversity.
CRLT
Multicultural Teaching Resources
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/multiteaching/multiteaching.php
Multicultural teaching encompasses a broad range of topics from student and faculty diversity and retention, to teaching about social justice and creating inclusive classrooms in which all students can succeed. This gateway webpage offers information about the services that CRLT provides to U-M faculty and GSIs, a link to the CRLT Theatre Program, and a list of multicultural resources and bibliographies.
CRLT
Multicultural Teaching: Annotated Bibliographies
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/multiteaching/multibiblio.php
This link provides a number of annotated bibliographies for educators.
CRLT Teaching Strategies & Disciplinary Resources:
Creating an Effective Learning Climate
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/tscelc.phpGroup Work and Cooperative Learning
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tsgwcl.phpIncivility in the College Classroom
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/Incivility.phpAfroamerican and African Studies
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/afroamerafricanstudies.phpAsian American and Asian Pacific American Studies
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/asian_asianpacific_american.phpEuropean Studies
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/eurostudie.phpLatin American Studies
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/latinamerstudies.phpMiddle Eastern Studies
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/middleeaststudies.phpNative American Studies
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/nativeamerstudies.phpWomen's Studies
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/womensstudies.php
Diversity
Among Our Students
http://fluid.stanford.edu/class/cee200/diversity.htm
American society is more diverse now than at any time in the last fifty years. In order to teach effectively in such an environment, instructors need to understand students’ varied backgrounds and experiences and explore ways to foster an open, safe environment for all students. This essay describes some common challenges for students of color and offers suggestions for how faculty can provide encouragement and support.
Diversity in Teaching and Learning: Links to Web Articles
http://www.colorado.edu/journals/standards/V6N1/EDUCATION/
SYLLABI/bibsyll.html
For faculty who would like to incorporate a multicultural perspective into their courses, this link provides sample syllabi with course overviews, bibliographies, grading rubrics, and model lesson plans. Disciplinary perspectives that are represented include: civics, geography, geometry, cultural studies, history, film, and literature.
Understanding
Prejudice and Discrimination
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/
This website provides more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources, searchable databases, and a variety of interactive exercises that explore the causes and consequences of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.
Also see the following journals:
Black Issues in Higher Education
Women in Higher Education
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education