Innovative Learning & Teaching

Diverse Classrooms

The students that fill the seats in today's classrooms are diverse in many ways. Being effective with all students can be challenging. This page addresses the issue of teaching in a Diverse Classroom.

Why is the consideration of your classroom demographics important?

"Understanding distance learning students can help you tailor your distance learning course logistics, syllabus, and course design to meet their needs." (Worcester Polytechnic Institute).

Ohio Resources

• The Diversity Connection, links to specific diversity related issues (The Ohio State University).
• Teaching International Students Across the Curriculum: Supporting Academic Listening/Speaking (The Ohio State University).
• Respect Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning (Principle 7 of Good Practice- Chickering and Gamson, 1987) This page is a resource bank related to this topic.
• Thoughtful items to consider in a class from experiential learning to judiciously incorporating technology (Case Western Reserve University).
• Both Sides Now: A digital Humanities assignment that addresses varied learning styles (Miami University).

Around the Nation

• Read several articles about teaching tips for a diverse classroom (University of Virginia).
• Teaching in a Diverse Classroom - A great source of information (University of Southern California).
• The Third Shift: Women Learning Online (2001) (AAUW Educational Foundation).
• Diversity and Inclusive Teaching: a list of websites covering all issues of Inclusive Teaching (Indiana University Northwest).
• Multicultural Enhanced Learning for Diversity, providing a rich mix of cultural, international, gender, and lifestyle perspectives that can be integrated into any course (Penn State University).
• Tips for teaching and principles of adult learning online (Academic Technology Center - Worcester Polytechnic Institute).

Around the World

• Bright ideas for using IT in your classroom (Heriot Watt University, Scotland).
• Who is the millennial student and what can faculty members do to improve learning (University of Ontario).