Are you helping or creating stress for your students of color? The difference between Equity vs Equality and its impact on teaching and learning plays a significant factor in the classroom. We MUST find ways to help our students succeed!
The difference between Equity vs Equality and its impact on teaching and learning plays a significant factor in the classroom. Understanding the needs of the students in your classroom and their diverse backgrounds, and incorporating tools to help them adapt can reduce their stress and help them succeed.
Pursuing higher education can be challenging and present a plethora of potential stumbling blocks students have to navigate through. Unfamiliarity with the academia pedagogical practices, such as language, classroom participation, active and collaborative learning, along with lack of awareness of social rules, norms and skills may further isolate our marginalized students. The pandemic has also further exacerbated some of the self isolating bubbles and silos.
In this presentation, we will look at scenarios, offer some ideas, case studies, data to provoke curiosity and confidence in student learning. The presentation will include engagement with the audience through a couple of interactive activities to provide a greater appreciation for vocabulary and the way in which we explain things to our students. Furthermore, we will provide a case study to demonstrate how our students learn from diverse experiences and how it can be incorporated into any class or content area.
This session will acknowledge different aspects of diversity in curriculum design and delivery; provide effective scaffolding strategies for instructional designers or faculty, to make education relevant and representative to all; and provide tools and strategies to improve the learning experiences for marginalized students. In fact, these tools can be helpful to all students. It is important that we find ways to help our students of color succeed!