The Inclusive Teaching Institute for Graduate Students & Postdocs is an opportunity to explore diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education learning environments.  This interactive workshop invites you to reflect and connect with graduate students and postdocs to share knowledge, explore how and why social identities come into play in the learning environment, consider how to remove barriers and increase accessibility, and create a plan to support student learning.  

• Which frameworks might guide your decision-making and professional development to develop an equity-minded teaching practice?
• How can you prepare to facilitate discussion when it’s personal, political, or charged?
• How do your past learning experiences inform your emergent practice, commitments, and professional development needs?
• What does education research say about how to support belonging? 

The institute is a place to get started or deepen your learning.

Who can attend?

The Inclusive Teaching Institute is designed for graduate students and postdocs at Cornell.

When is the Inclusive Teaching Institute?

This program will run in person from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, February 9, 2024, with a follow-up 90-minute online (Zoom) workshop the following week, required to complete the program. 

Choose one option from the following sections for your follow-up workshop: 

• Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
• Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
• Friday, February 16, 2024, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
• Friday, February 16, 2024, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Register for the Inclusive Teaching Institute

Learning Outcomes

As a result of attending the institute, participants will be able to:

• use a framework to guide planning for inclusion
• select teaching strategies that foster engagement, belonging, and accessibility
• increase your confidence in facilitating an inclusive learning climate

Sponsorship

This event is sponsored by the Center for Teaching Innovation and the Graduate School’s Future Faculty and Academic Careers office.

Please check our current programming for all opportunities for graduate students, TAs, and postdocs offered this semester.