Inclusive and Culturally Responsive Teaching
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion resources on myUPEI for UPEI faculty and staff
Use your myUPEI login to access resources from the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office at UPEI.
4 Seasons of Reconciliation
As part of the University's ongoing commitment to building capacity and learning related to Truth and Reconciliation, the Office of the Vice President Academic and Research with the support of Corinne Chappell (Advisor to the Vice-President Academic and Research on Indigenous Affairs) offers a resource to support Indigenization and reconciliation. The goal of this resource is to support faculty and staff learning and diversity and inclusion awareness through education. Once you complete the course you can download a certificate of completion.
Promoting Student Well-Being in Learning Environments: A Guide for Instructors
The Teaching and Learning Centre and Student Affairs at UPEI have developed a resource with strategies and information to help support student well-being. There are evidence-based ideas for course design, your syllabus, strategies for large classes, working with graduate students and more. The resource is available as an e-book and can be downloaded as a PDF as well. The appendix has a list of Student Supports at UPEI as well as a link to external support organizations through the Canadian Mental Health Association's PEI Helping Tree.
Inclusive and Culturally Responsive Teaching: Strategies, Definitions and Resources
Five Essential Strategies to Embrace Culturally Responsive Teaching
Cultivating an Inclusive Climate in Online Classrooms
University classrooms, including online classrooms, are dynamic spaces where complex interactions occur. Simply outlining and following respectful online behaviours and interactions (known as ‘netiquette’) often do not go far enough to untangle underlying assumptions that come into play in interpersonal interactions, including those that take place in online learning spaces. This document is intended to offer some first steps toward thinking about how equity and inclusion can inform online classroom interactions in order to establish and uphold standards of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in online courses