As learners return to campus after experiencing considerable trauma from a racialized pandemic, we must collectively adapt our pedagogical practices and teaching methods to reach and support them "where they are." Framing authentic learning via inclusive teaching methods entails approaching teaching as a dynamic and responsive process. Rather than thinking of inclusion or accessibility as something that can be addressed as an after-the-fact consideration, inclusive teaching demands that instructors challenge themselves to center student needs throughout their pedological design process. This presentation will provide strategies and tips for applying an inclusive design approach to pedagogical innovation and practice.
Panelist
Dr. Rhianna C. Rogers
Dr. Rhianna C. Rogers is director of the RAND Corporation's Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy. She is an expert on cultural and ethnic studies, intercultural competencies and diversity education, cultural mediation, and virtual exchange programming and a recurring speaker at the United Nations – Geneva Forum. Rogers has supported DEI in a variety of capacities, including leading training for Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)/German NATO DEU Air Command DEI (2022), participating in the White House - Year of Evidence in Action Forums (2022), and sat on the New York State Digital Equity Summits advisory group (2021). Before RAND, Rogers was a professor of interdisciplinary studies (history and anthropology) at the SUNY - Empire State College, where she held systems appointments as the Ernest Boyer Presidential Fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government (2019–2020) and as a SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence Fellow (2014–2021).