Research shows that engaging with diverse peers can enhance student learning in the college classroom. How can teachers make good use of the diversity—both visible and invisible—in their classes to foster productive peer exchanges that enrich all students’ learning experiences? This interactive session for GSIs in all fields will present a series of specific strategies for helping students engage with one another across their differences, as well as for introducing course content in ways that productively draw upon students’ various backgrounds and experiences. The workshop is designed for teachers of a wide range of courses: those that foreground social difference as a course topic as well as those that do not.

*This session is a repeat of the 2/27 Leveraging Student Diversity in the Classroom seminar. If you are waitlisted for the 2/27 seminar, you are welcome to cancel your registration for that session and register for this session on 3/13 instead.