Creating inclusive learning environments requires ongoing feedback, reflection, and opportunities for students to actively engage in their own learning process. Waiting until the end of a semester to assess learning can limit opportunities to understand student experiences, adapt instruction, and support a diverse range of learning needs.
Foster Inclusion in the Classroom Through Formative Assessment is an Academic Impressions course designed to help faculty strengthen inclusive teaching practices through student-centered assessment and feedback strategies. Through practical tools, guided reflection, and experiential learning, participants explore ways to gather meaningful feedback and adapt instruction to support student engagement and success.
Participants explore topics including:
- Understanding formative assessment as an inclusive teaching practice
- Using practical assessment tools to gather feedback on student learning, preferences, and engagement
- Implementing strategies such as knowledge surveys, low-stakes quizzes, polling, think-pair-share activities, chat discussions, exam wrappers, and post-mortem reviews
- Creating opportunities for students to reflect on and assess their own learning
- Strengthening student engagement, accessibility, and inclusion through ongoing classroom feedback
- Building classroom cultures that support belonging, reflection, and continuous improvement
The course combines practical teaching strategies with opportunities to experience formative assessment from a student perspective, helping participants better understand how feedback and reflection can support more inclusive, responsive, and effective teaching practices.
This resource is especially valuable for faculty, instructors, teaching-focused staff, academic leaders, and Centers for Teaching & Learning professionals interested in inclusive pedagogy, assessment, and student success.
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