Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

ORCID IDs

Kirby 0000-0003-1563-560X

Fedesco 0000-0002-1163-1903

Date of this Version

Fall 2020

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (spring 2020) 39(2)

doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0039.207

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License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

All instructors bring a set of unconscious or implicit biases to the classroom. These biases can negatively impact the way they interact with students, thus affecting important student outcomes (for example, grades, sense of belonging). Facilitators leading programming on inclusive teaching may struggle to identify strategies they should include in sessions to help unearth and address these biases in others. We have created an activity that can be tailored to fit a variety of teaching contexts and audiences and that helps unveil implicit biases while potentially mitigating some challenges associated with participant responses to such conversations.

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