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Steps Toward Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive College Classroom

Faculty Focus

It is important to understand inclusive pedagogies as practices where we discern the nuance between general multicultural education or culturally responsive pedagogy and inclusive practices that specifically address the ability/disability continuum and the health dimension. Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework.

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Create a Culture, Not a Classroom: Why Seating Charts Matter for Student Success

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Without knowing the students, how does a teacher know where to assign their seats? This question comes up each summer as teachers strive to create the best learning environment possible. For others, placing students into assigned groups for cooperative learning can produce the optimal learning environment.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

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This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education.

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How Should Professors Respond When Students Ask for Accommodations?

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How I figure it, there are a list of things I find reasonable for all students—letting them stand or wiggle when they are having problems with attention or sleepiness, taking extra time to answer questions for assignments and projects, moving at a pace that is comfortable for the slowest in the group when we are on-the-move for class, etc.

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Steps Toward Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive College Classroom

Faculty Focus

It is important to understand inclusive pedagogies as practices where we discern the nuance between general multicultural education or culturally responsive pedagogy and inclusive practices that specifically address the ability/disability continuum and the health dimension. Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework.

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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

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As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Banning GenAI tools is not the solution Many students use GenAI tools to aid their learning.

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? during lessons, and offer students a variety of ways to complete assignments rather than requiring everyone to write a paper or take a timed exam.

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