Staff need(s) the workshop will address
‘I’m a nice person and very inclusive so I’m sure all my students feel welcome.’
‘I want to make my teaching more LGBT inclusive but I’m not really sure how. It’s so complicated these days.’
‘We don’t have any of those students on the course, so why should I tell students what my pronouns are?’
Audience:
All staff involved in teaching, supporting student learning and PAT work
Length of Session: 2hrs
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How the Workshop will contribute to Learning Practice
The facilitators of this session understand that teaching staff might be intimidated by the complexity of issues around LGBTQ+ identities and inclusivity and about trying to change learning and teaching styles and environments.
Therefore, this session aims to provide a space for you to ask genuine questions without fear of being cancelled, to find out about unfamiliar terms and issues, and to hear some real-life experiences of learning and teaching that demonstrate how important small things can be for LGBTQ+ students’ inclusivity.
The session combines information, discussion and activities, concluding by facilitating development of practical ways to make your course, curricula, classes, and interactions with UG and PG students more inclusive.
You will engage in activities exploring:
- Barriers to LGBTQ+ inclusivity in learning and teaching (classes and curricula), benefits of diversity for everyone in the class/ course, including staff and ways to overcome the first and maximise the second.
- How to make class content and language used in learning and teaching more inclusive according to discipline;
- How to establish and maintain an inclusive atmosphere and tone for learning and teaching activities and environments;
- How to avoid microaggressions that impede learning for those excluded;
- How to normalise all staff and student identities within your learning & teaching;
You will also engage in activities that encourage respectful debate about how LGBTQ+ issues might impact subjects or disciplines and explore how to keep up with LGBTQ+ issues and find resources to educate yourself and others, and to make your learning and teaching more inclusive.
How the Workshop will develop specific skills aligned with UKPSF
Specific skills
A2
The workshop explores LGBTQ+ issues within learning & teaching, how to make your course, curricula, classes, and interactions with UG and PG students more inclusive.
Core Knowledge
K2
The workshop will explore how you can adapt class language and activities to foster an inclusive atmosphere and tone for learning and teaching activities and environments.
K3
The workshop will help you understand how important small things can be for LGBTQ+ students’ inclusivity and learning and suggest strategies to avoid microaggressions that impede learning for those excluded;
Professional Values
V1
This workshop explores strategies you can adopt to try to change your learning and teaching styles and environments to be more LGBTQ+-inclusive.
How the Workshop supports Fellowship D1, D2 & D3
D2 – Fellow of the HEA
Staff for whom teaching or learning support is a significant element of their role such as staff with experience as
- Academic or Support staff holding substantive teaching & learning responsibilities.
- Experienced professionals with substantive teaching & learning responsibilities including for example within workplace settings.
D3 – Senior Fellow of the HEA
Experienced HE teaching staff able to demonstrate sustained impact & influence on the L&T practice of others over a number of years, through
- Leading, managing, organising programmes
- Mentoring other staff
- Departmental, School or other University responsibilities