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Intent of Project
My intent in creating this course is to help educators create diversity-neutral learning environments.
Learning Goals
- Understand why promoting diversity-neutral learning spaces is important to you as an educator
- Identify different factors of diversity between participants and students
- Seek out practical tools to make your learning environments more diversity-neutral
- Create a plan for how to make your learning environments more diversity-neutral
Needs Assessment
Instructional problem:
- In any given learning environment, learners will come from a wide range of backgrounds. It is imperative that facilitators and teachers provide a diversity-neutral space for learning.
What is to be learned:
- Participants will become aware of the variety of diversity factors and how to integrate diversity-neutrality into their learning environments.
About the learners:
- Participants will be anyone who seeks to be a more diversity-conscious educator.
Instructional context:
- Activities in this course will include a mixed-media approach, including video, web-site navigation, review of readings, and personal reflection. The end goal will be to create a small portfolio of ideas for future use in learning environments.
Performance Objectives
- Participants will understand why diversity-neutrality is important in creating successful learning environments
- Participants will be able to identify the different aspects of diversity that could potentially be present in their future learning environments
- Participants will seek out online resources and be able to locate specific tools for creating diversity-neutral learning environments
- Participants will create a plan-of-action for how to creative diversity-neutral learning environments in the future
Task Analysis
Essential/Enabling Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding of the English language
- Understand the basics of diversity factors
- Ability to utilize word processor and basic typing skills
Supportive Prerequisites:
- Interest in learning about how to be a more diversity-conscious educator
- Access to and basic skills in using the Internet, specifically the multi-media resources utilized through this wiki-course
Unit Objectives
Unit 1:
- Participants will examine their own behavior in order to understand how they relate to people outside of their comfort zones.
- Participants will gain insight into other perspectives about diversity and inclusion.
- Participants will identify their feelings in order to fully reflect on a specific personal experience of feeling different in a learning scenario.
Unit 2:
- Participants will test their prior knowledge about diversity in order to further their awareness on issues revolving around inclusion.
- Participants will learn more about diversity through a basic, guided tour through the differentiating factors of diversity.
- Participants will illustrate a self-portrait in order to demonstrate an appreciation for their own factors of diversity.
Unit 3:
- Participants will identify the factors of diversity within their future learning environments.
- Participants will locate resources and tools to utilize in creating future diversity-neutral learning environments.
- Participants will analyze resources and tools for practical use in their future diversity-neutral learning environments.
Unit 4:
- Participants will develop a plan-of-action for creating a diversity-neutral learning environment.
- Participants will practice a diversity inclusion activity in order to gain familiarity with diversity inclusion as a practice.
- Participants will reflect on their learning throughout the course and share their learning with others in order to create a more diversity-inclusive world.
Curriculum Mapping
References
Web Resources
Print Resources
- Tough, P. (2007, June 10). The class consciousness raiser. The New York Times. Retrieved from
- Partnoy, F. (2012) A slice too thin. Wait - the art and science of delay. New York: Public Affairs. File:Partnoy Wait.pdf