"The revelation that the woman in blackface is a teacher who is expected to provide a safe and equitable classroom environment for all children is very disconcerting," Betty C. Andrews, the president of the Iowa-Nebraska NAACP Conference of Branches, told The Quad-City Times. .
The following five strategies may assist biology instructors in working toward an inclusive, fair, and equitable classroom community for all of their students.
For cultivating a welcoming, inclusive, and equitable classroom environment, one of the simplest strategies an instructor can use is to structure ways to get to know and call students by their names.
The strategies presented above are merely starting points from which instructors can step up their attempts to cultivate equitable classroom environments that promote student engagement and participation in learning biology.
To build a healthier, more peaceful and more equitable world, classrooms everywhere should be filled with girls as well as boys.
Being explicit about one's goal of cultivating an inclusive, equitable, and fair classroom learning environment reiterates that students and instructors are on the same side, not on somehow opposing sides, of the teaching and learning process.
By Raad Rahman Mymensing, 22 January 2014: Making education equitable for a classroom filled with over 20 children can already be a challenge when taking all learning needs of the pupils into consideration, but imagine having a classroom of over 100 students?
These teaching strategies are sometimes referred to as "equitable teaching strategies," whereby striving for "classroom equity" is about teaching all the students in your classroom, not just those who are already engaged, already participating, and perhaps already know the biology being taught.
These teaching strategies are sometimes referred to as "equitable teaching strategies," wherein striving for classroom equity is about teaching all the students in your classroom not just those who are already engaged, already participating, and perhaps already know the biology being taught.
Establishing early and regularly enforcing a supportive classroom culture—just as you would in an effective and productive research lab meeting, study section, or any other gathering of scientists—is essential to maintaining an equitable, inclusive, and welcome classroom community.
Our research, which spans over a decade, collectively has focused on examining the ways in which students and teachers interact in culturally and linguistically diverse classroom contexts, and how this relates to equitable educational opportunities (see for example Wilmes et al. 2018).
