Now in its ninth year, this annual series of workshops is open to all U-M instructors. Each workshop offers opportunities to engage with colleagues from across the university and to think through a range of timely equity-focused teaching questions, challenges, and strategies. You are welcome to register for one or all of the workshops in this one-week series. Sessions are free and open to U-M instructors in any field.

This year’s series dives into the five practical Elements of Equity-focused Teaching (EfT) from our research-based framework. CRLT consultants have developed this framework over more than a decade of practice and study. In short, Equity-focused Teaching seeks to disrupt patterns of exclusion in learning spaces, creating parity in access and outcomes for all.

The five practical Elements address the question of how to go about Equity-focused Teaching in our classrooms. Each Element--Critical Engagement of Difference, Academic Belonging, Structured Interactions, Transparency, and Flexibility--is a lens focused on particular strategies and tools. Each session in the series explores an Element and applies it with regard to a particular area of teaching practice. Session topics (by Element) include:

Critical Engagement of Difference

• GSIs Critically Engaging with Difference: Noticing Students’ Lived Experiences
• Preparing Students for Engagement: Appreciative Interviewing Skills (developed and facilitated by our colleagues at the Ginsberg Center)

Academic Belonging

• Fostering Belonging in Instructional Teams: Why does it matter? How do we do it?

Structured Interactions

• Planting the SEED: Structuring Equity, Engagement, and Discourse
• Learner-centered Interactions with Artificial Intelligence: Structure for Equity

Transparency

• Applying Principles of Transparency to Discussions
• Using AI to Enhance Student-Centered Instruction in Engineering Courses

Flexibility

• Exploring Alternative Grading: Strategies to add flexibility and transparency
• Practicing Flexibility Using Journal-Keeping in the Classroom

Follow this link to learn more about these workshops and register.