Ensure that all students, regardless of their backgrounds, abilities, or learning styles, have an equitable opportunity to succeed.
Accessible and inclusive teaching ensures that all students, regardless of background or ability, can fully participate and succeed. It requires an understanding of how to adapt content, methods, and environments to meet diverse needs.
This approach values every learner’s potential and promotes universal access to education. It has a positive impact on the classroom as it fosters community between the students and the instructor.
Featured Arts resources
Designing for accessibility: An introduction to universal design for learning
Explore accessible teaching practices using Universal Design for Learning, inclusive course materials, captions, colour contrast, Canvas, Zoom, Kaltura, CLAS, Microsoft accessibility tools, and more.
Cultivating Inclusive Writing Instruction: Planting Seeds Across the Curriculum
Laila Ferreira, Rebecca Caruthers Den Hoed, Katja Thieme (Journalism, Writing, and Media), and Jennifer Walsh Marr (Vantage College / Engineering) are supporting faculty in teaching writing in ways that are inclusive, accessible, and responsive.
Subtopics
Universal design for learning
Universal Design for Learning provides instructors with guidelines on how to improve teaching so that it is accessible to everyone. Designing for everyone reduces the need to accommodate specific situations.
Culturally responsive pedagogy
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy makes a purposeful effort to connect students’ cultural and social backgrounds to their learning. It broadens the cultural awareness that students have of each other and fosters inclusion.
