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Embrace a Pedagogy of Human
Diversity
1. See differences as constructed
and real
2. Honor expertise on diversity
3. Be inclusive and note
intersections
4. Study diversity
5. Examine policies and court
decisions
6. Understand similarities
Expand and Deepen Student Thinking
7. Welcome contradictions and get
students to think on the edge of their comfort zones
8. Connect thinking and personal
experience to research
9. Analyze terms, concepts and the
deeper meaning of language
10. Introduce new ways of thinking
11. Pause for reflection
12. Celebrate initiative
13. Emphasize critical thinking
14. Make use of different student
perspectives
15. Seek closure
16. Invite new thinking
17. Help students stretch
18. Require deeper analysis of
experiences
19. Avoid easy answers and embrace
complexity
Support Student-Centered Learning
20. Understand student development
21. Challenge assumptions
22. Encourage self-examination
23. Use off-campus opportunities
24. Use student response sheets
25. Develop and use empathy
26. Build supportive classroom
communities
27. Connect to the personal
28. Have students write a cultural
autobiography
29. Encourage participation and
stir the soul
30. Recognize the mix of the
theoretical and the personal
31. Allow time
32. Emphasize constructivist
learning
33. De-center authority — maybe
Develop Rapport, Community, and
Emotional Maturity
34. Find the positive in student
responses
35. Get to know your students and
make connections
36. Make connections to student
lives
37. Support cooperation
38. Teach students about emotional
intelligence
39. Rearrange seating to facilitate
interactions
40. Address guilt
41. Share your own struggles
42. Help students understand
systems
43. De-emphasize evaluation during
practice
Face Conflicts with Intelligence,
Sensitivity, and Creativity
44. Discuss possible tensions
45. Know that there’s a time to
be objective and detached
46. Counter polarization
47. Prepare for sensitive topics
48. Remember that emotions can be
constructive
49. Explore possibilities with the
performing arts
Unlearn Stereotyping and Prejudice
50. Discuss stereotypes
51. Recognize that there is no
spokesperson for an entire population in your class
52. Admit to your biases
53. Expose contradictions
54. Understand privilege
55. Critically examine the standard
or ideal
56. Speak the truth and name the
oppression
57. Have courage
Create Safe, Open, Inclusive, and
Supportive Classrooms
58. Balance openness and safety
59. Encourage participation
60. Ensure care when speaking
61. Use student dyads
62. Practice generosity
63. Create alliances and contracts
with students
64. Practice democracy and promote
citizenship
65. Be humble
66. Develop student leadership
skills
67. Honor choices
68. Insist on responsible language
69. Ensure safety for instructors
70. Reduce perceived threat
71. Create supportive policies and
practices
Develop Your Instructional Skills
72. Manage multiple roles and use
varied approaches
73. Use simulations
74. Model what you expect
75. Understand and use your own
reactions
76. Connect teaching and learning
77. Be enthusiastic about teaching
78. Use course web sites
79. Solicit feedback from students
and evaluate
80. Teach from the heart
81. Invite diverse guests
82. Assign journals
83. Make teaching transparent
84. Solicit feedback from students
Communicate and Collaborate
85. Emphasize collaboration and
prosocial skills
86. Practice professionalism
87. Prize relationships
88. Balance participation.
89. Acknowledge group support and
build teamwork
90. Be credible
91. Use student legacies
92. Make use of classroom diversity
93. Teach and practice I-messages
Challenge Ideas, Attitudes, and
Beliefs
94. Challenge traditions and
question basic concepts
95. Value diverse perspectives
96. Address taboo subjects
97. Challenge naiveté
98. Reduce academic distance
99. Teach resistance
Support Positive Change
100. Think of transformation
101. Teach activism
102. Assign change projects
103. Emphasize awareness and
involvement
104. Choose a healthy perspective
and build on hope
Rethink Curriculum and Expectations
105. Broaden the range of variation
under study
106. Address current diversity
issues
107. Teach against the grain
108. Search for new material
109. Supplement class readings
110. Use film clips for shared
experiences
111. Use case studies
112. Teach about rights
113. Be alert to challenges and
opportunities on gender issues
114. Focus on first-year seminars
and orientation programs
115. Identify underlying issues
116. Maintain high expectations of
your students
Support Personal and Professional
Development
117. Challenge yourself
118. Commit to personal growth
119. Find time to read
120. Share strategies with
colleagues
121. Understand the dynamics of
peer support
122. Make use of professional
growth opportunities
123. Emphasize honest
self-reflection
124. Overcome silence
125. Develop your own communication
skills
126. Question your own status
127. Walk your talk
128. Support campus-wide
professional development
129. Lobby for new funds for
teaching diversity efforts
Deepen Your Institution’s
Commitment to Diversity
130. Recruit supportive leaders
131. Use strategic planning
132. Create action plans
133. Hire and retain diverse
personnel
134. Pay attention to campus
artifacts as signifiers
135. Advocate for "zero
tolerance" policies
136. Seek support from
administrators and other allies
Contribute to the Scholarship of
Teaching Diversity
137. Conduct research on diversity
138. Write about your teaching
139. Lobby for institutional
support for research
Support Diversity by Globalizing
the Curriculum
140. Connect to the world on campus
141. Help students see their world
through other lenses
142. Expand student worldviews
143. Put students onto a social map
144. Recognize the validity of
other worldviews
145. Understand the world with
story and metaphor
146. Meet the world through music
147. Approach the world with
empathy
Epilogue: Lessons Learned
William Timpson, Terry Deniston,
James Banning, and Shelby Maier
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