Teaching for Diverse and Inclusive Classrooms

Catalog description

This course will focus on creating an equitable learning environment that sensitively approaches differences and embraces inclusive practices. Emphasis will be on considering decisions about curriculum, instructional materials, learning activities, and student groupings in the multicultural, multilingual classroom. The use of adaptive technology, learning analytics and personalized learning, and compensatory and remedial methods to support students with academic and/or behavioral difficulties will be discussed, and frameworks for facilitating inclusive education and teaching for variability, such as Universal Design for Learning, will be covered.