Resources For Challenging Moments & Thoughtful Conversations in our Courses
These resources have been gathered by TLPDC colleague & past speaker Tasha Souza. Tasha is the Director of the BUILD Program at Boise State University. Prior to this role, she spent five years as Associate Director of the Boise State University Center for Teaching & Learning. Her career path has also included roles as a full professor of Communication and the Faculty Associate for Inclusive Classrooms at Humboldt State University. Before her time as a Fulbright scholar at the University of the West Indies in Barbados, she was the founding Faculty Development Coordinator for HSU's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) and also served as an Instructional Consultant at the Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR) at the University of Washington. She is a consultant on communication, inclusive excellence, and pedagogy and has published in the areas of difficult dialogues in the classroom, transforming classroom conflict, discussion-based teaching, confronting microaggressions with micro resistance, instructional communication, service-learning pedagogy, and intercultural conflict.
Online Resources:
Potentially Challenging Moments/Conversations while Teaching
- Start Talking: A Handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education
- Specific Tools for Difficult Dialogues
- Responding to Microaggressions in the Classroom
- Responding to Microaggressions in Online Learning Environments During a Pandemic
- Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom: Concrete Strategies for Cooling Down Tension
- What to do Before, During, and After Difficult Dialogues About Diversity
- On "Difficult' Conversations
- Pedagogies of Care: Open Resources for Student-Centered and Adaptive Strategies in the New Higher-Ed Landscape
- Creating a Safe Space in Your Class During a Crisis
- Resources for Supporting Our Campuses in Politically Fraught Times
- Resources During National Unrest
- Teaching in Response to the Election
- How to Respond to Mask NonCompliance
- Understanding Assumptions: The Effect of Bias on the Classroom
- Divided We Fall: Unity Without Tragedy
- Divided We Fall discussion guides
Conversations About Race
- Eight Actions to Reduce Racism in College Classrooms
- Talking About Race
- Engaging With Students in Conversations About Race
- 'We Can't Ignore This Issue': How to Talk With Students About Racism
- Discussing Race, Racism, and Other Difficult Topics with Students
- Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice
- How to Talk with Students about Racism
- Pedagogical Strategies to Discuss Institutional Legacies of Racism with Students
- Teaching Race, Racism, and Racial Justice: Pedagogical Principles and Classroom Strategies for Course Instructors
The TLPDC also offers numerous workshops on these topics, you can register for them here: https://ttu.elementlms.com/
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