I saw this being fostered so well by you and the other co facilitators of that, that is the age experience that it's an ongoing thing. First we need to be preparing, not just that there might be someone of a particular demographic but that these things help so many in so many different cases. And then it's also that we are never done and I saw that so beautifully demonstrated. All of us really coming together to be able to be very open and frank about what each of us are experiencing. It can be a joy to hear from another person's perspective and then have all these people coming together to just want to be doing better for each other.
Yasser Tamer discusses ways of being intentionally inclusive on episode 477 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Students are not actually advised to memorize or even to learn a theory by heart, but they are advised to reflect.
-Yasser Tamer
Do whatever you are interested in.
-Yasser Tamer
Let students choose their own pathway.
-Yasser Tamer
It is equitable, but let’s make it more accessible.
-Yasser Tamer
Resources
- Cultivating Compassionate Community to Foster Academic Integrity? (with @YasserTammer), by Maha Bali
- Video: MYFest22 Syllabus Accessibility Jam with Alexandra Gazis and Yasser Tamer
- Video: The Experience of a Visually Impaired Student Yasser Tamer, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Business Model You: The One-Page Way to Reinvent Your Work at Any Stage, by Bruce Hazen, Timothy Clark, Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, + Alan Smith*
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey*
- Soliya
- Intentionally Equitable Hospitality series through Equity Unbound
- Write Good ALT text
- Syllabus as Manifesto: A Critical Approach to Classroom Culture, by Adam Heidebrink-Bruno