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The Facilitator's Guides are for staff at the UC Centers for Teaching and Learning to use and an accompanying facilitator's guide for CTL staff to facilitate cross-campus institutes and create campus-specific workshops. To get full access to the guides, you must be added to the accompanying Canvas course on UC Online. Please contact the Core Team to be added.
Building Learning Connections Across Cultures
Building Learning Connections Across Cultures
This module introduces educators to evidence-based strategies for fostering inclusive and equitable learning environments that recognize and respect cultural differences. The module explores racial equity, inclusive curriculum design, and approaches to supporting meaningful dialogue and social justice efforts in higher education.
Creating Inclusive Classroom
Creating Inclusive Classroom
for LGBTQ+ Students
for LGBTQ+ Students
This module equips educators with tools for supporting LGBTQ+ students in higher education settings. Participants engage with LGBTQ+ histories, terminology, identities, and inclusive pedagogical practices while developing strategies for inclusive curriculum design and building affirming classroom environments.
Alternative Grading Practices
Alternative Grading Practices
This module examines equitable approaches to assessment in higher education. The module introduces strategies for rethinking traditional grading systems in order to better support student learning, fairness, transparency, and engagement for all students.
Teaching and Learning at the Intersections
Teaching and Learning at the Intersections
This module explores how overlapping systems of identity and power shape student experiences in higher education. Grounded in intersectional approaches to teaching and learning, the module considers how race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, class, and other social categories intersect in classroom spaces. Participants develop strategies for inclusive curriculum design and engage in critical discussions on advancing social justice and equity in higher education.
Teaching with Access in Mind
Teaching with Access in Mind
This module focuses on accessibility, disability, and neurodiversity in higher education teaching practices. Participants examine how classroom structures and institutional norms shape access to learning, while developing strategies for accessible curriculum design, inclusive pedagogy, and practices that support student agency, autonomy, and equitable participation.
Facilitate an Institute
Facilitate an Institute
Members of the UC Centers for Teaching and Learning and the UC Instructional Design Faculty Support Group facilitate the Professional Development for Teaching Excellence Institutes. Cross-campus Institutes are offered at least once per year and are open to all instructors, including graduate students. The time commitment for facilitating an institute varies depending on whether it is a 5-day or 10-day Institute. If you would like to co-facilitate an Institute or offer it for your campus only, please contact the Project Core Team.
Length
5-day Institutes: Equitable Grading Practices and Teaching with Access in Mind
10-day Institutes: Buildings and Learning Connections Across Cultures, Creating Inclusive Classrooms for LGBTQ+ Students, Teaching and Learning at the Intersections
Before
Review institute materials, available in the module’s Facilitator’s Guide under resources [90 minutes]
Plan institute: co-facilitation, delivery, and update the calendar [90 minutes]
Communicate with project administrators about enrollments [30 minutes]
During
Send daily announcement/emails [10 minutes per day of the institute]
Facilitate two synchronous Zoom sessions [60 minutes on two days of the institute]
Engage with participant discussions in forum posts [30 minutes per day of the institute]
Respond to participant emails and questions [30 minutes per day of the institute]
After
Communicate with project administrators about student completions [40 minutes]
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