Teaching and Diversity

Some Practical Advice About Improving Educational Outcomes for a Diverse Range of Students

A selection of videos from An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching, 2014 course.

Videos selected by Hilary Weller <h.weller@reading.ac.uk> on 12 April 2016.

Videos with most relevance to diversity, with an emphasis on women and BME students.

Some of the videos might seem out of context at first as they are part of a larger MOOC. However, persevere. There is some incredibly useful material here. Even better, enrol on the full course:

An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching,

• Class room Climate (25:17)

  By Michele DiPeitro, Kennesay State University

• Persistence in STEM Fields, Part 1 (8:10)

  By Mark Connolly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Persistence in STEM Fields, Part 2 (4:24)

  By Mark Connolly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Dramatization of Physics TA’s First Day of Class (7:38)

  By Trey Mack, Vanderbilt University

• Avoiding Spotlighting and Starting to Leverage Classroom Diversity, Part 1 (11:08)

  By Trey Mack, Vanderbilt University and Alice Pawley, Purdue University

• Avoiding Spotlighting and Starting to Leverage Classroom Diversity, Part 2 (26:04)

  By Trey Mack, Vanderbilt University and Alice Pawley, Purdue University

• Interview with STEM faculty and students discussing the Social-Belonging article (29:08)

  By Trey Mack, Vanderbilt University

The last one is utterly brilliant. It describes how the BME attainment gap can actually be closed!

Comments to h.weller@reading.ac.uk or to diversity@reading.ac.uk