TA Training: Teaching Inclusively

One piece of advice that I often recall from a former TA is “Remember you are there for all the students, not just the smartest ones, not just the ones most like you, … .” What are some principles and strategies for teaching inclusively?

Your Task

Read the Chronicle of Higher Education advice guide Want to Reach All Your Students? Here's How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive, then answer the questions below. The article is more focused on teachers rather than TAs, and not all the material in it will be relevant. But some material should be useful to you in your TA work.

Questions:

  1. What are the two or three most important points you learned from reading the article?
     
  2. What is one thing you learned that is surprising?
     
  3. What is one question you still have?
     
  4. What are two or three specific tips from the article that you can use in your TAing? Identify the tips and explain how you plan to use them in your TA work.

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