Active Learning & Inclusive Teaching: Synergies and Antagonisms
May 5 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
In-person (UBCV)
This event is part of the 2025 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 5 – 9, 2025.
This interactive session will provide instructors with strategies that support students with diverse identities and learning needs when participating in collaborative active learning and assignments. Participants will consider neurodivergent conditions, gender, and the needs of English as an Additional Language (EAL) students and how that those identities interact with different active learning strategies, especially in their own discipline. Participants will explore strategies grounded in the literature (including Universal Design for Learning) with the goal of developing practical techniques for creating active learning activities that support inclusivity. Learning objectives for this session include:
- Define Active Learning, Inclusion, and describe how they interact
- Identify challenges in your own discipline regarding this interaction
- Create & discover strategies to enhance inclusion in active learning
Facilitators:
- Natalie Westwood, Program Developer, Graduate Student Program, CTLT, UBCV
- Anka Lekhi, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Chemistry, UBCV
Note to Non-UBC Participants:
In order to register for this program, non-UBC faculty, staff, and students will need to create a UBC Basic CWL. To do this, please go to the CWL page and scroll down to the accordion tab that reads “Basic”. Follow the instructions there for creating and activating a Basic CWL, then please return to this page to register for the program.
Please register to secure your spot.
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