Inclusive teaching and learning practices
Inclusive Practice Inspiration
Use the Inclusive-learning@York toolkit to reflect on your practice and gain practical tips for how to be more inclusive in teaching, learning and assessment.
Explore the university's inclusive teaching, learning and assessment policy and find inspiration for inclusive practice from the following examples:
A guide to inclusive lecturing practices written by a Digital Accessibility intern (added 6 Sep 2021).
Inclusive learning: what have we learned from the pandemic so far?
Emily Brunsden's 5 tips for inclusive lectures (UoY)
Mark Egan's inclusive teaching principles (UoY)
Penny Spikin's sharing on developing more inclusive teaching and resources (UoY, Future Teacher YouTube, 13m)
Lisa Featherstone - Teaching diverse learners (Future Teacher site)
Javeria Shah on working with neurodiverse students (Future Teacher YouTube, 9m)
Further examples will be made available shortly. Can you contribute an example? If so, do get in touch.
Inclusive webinars
If you are running online seminar or webinars, there are some valuable tips for you on this Future Teacher page on Inclusive Webinars. Also view page 13 and 15 of this resource for more tips.
Consider turning the tips into a checklist you can use before you run your next online event.
Further practical guides are available from our University guidance page on inclusive practice and Quick Wins on Accessible Sessions.
Inclusive spaces and AV equipment
AV provide some information on equipment that can help you to teach more inclusively.
Inclusive terminology
A glossary of Equality, Diversity &Inclusion terms, intended as a starting point for people to further their knowledge and understanding of this area.
User research
Consider running a user research workshop with your students to discover how they access and use your resources.
Are there areas where they need more skills development?
Are there areas that you could improve?
Interested in doing some user research in Spring/Summer term 2021? Get in touch with Lilian.Soon@york.ac.uk.
Student Stories
"Stories are the closest we can come to a shared experience..Like all stories, they are most fundamentally a chance to ride around inside another head and be reminded that being who we are and where we are, and doing what we're doing, is not the only possibility. "
- Harriet McBryde Johnson, Too late to die young, nearly true tales from a life (2006)
Personal accounts written by our students to help us understand their struggles, thoughts and victories. More will be added soon.
How a blind data scientist writes code - an inspiring success story from a blind student who graduated from Physics.
The student experience
Designing your online teaching?
Take note of what students need help with by reviewing the report on the student experience of digital accessibility.
Nora Tomas
Nora Tomas, a student with a disability at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, talks about her experiences with flipped classroom as a means for inclusion (7 min).
Gagan Chhabra
Gagan Chhabra, sharing experiences as a student at Oslo Metropolitan University with a visual impairment (22 min).
Malin Conquiste
Malin Cronquist from Lund University shares her experiences of living with dyslexia - both the challenges she faces and the tools she uses to manage. (15m46s)
Tools that can help
There are various tools that can help to create amore inclusive learning experience. Learn to use some of them and promote them to students. Tools for neurodiverse people.
Blackboard Ally
Ensure people around you are aware of how alternative formats can help them. Find out more about Blackboard Ally on Yorkshare.
Student communities
Make students aware of student communities that can help them to connect with each other.
Student communities
Students can join a range of student communities for peer support and friendships.
Student Connect
Student Connect aims to help students meet others from their year, department or College.
Academic Skills Community
The Academic Skills Community is designed to help students advance their academic, language and interpersonal abilities with regular workshops and community groups.
Disability Network
YUSU's student disability network organises regular events and meetings for students.
The Distractibles
A monthly meetup of people who are neurodiverse or just battling distractions. Both staff and students welcome. First Wednesday of a month, 12.30pm to 1.30pm, online.
