Pre-Conference Workshop 4: Practical tips: how to make your teaching more inclusive for neurodive...
Channel: ALT
Date: 13/09/2021

Speaker: Miranda Melcher

This session offers a practical hands-on experience for educators to learn about research-backed general principles for inclusive teaching, as well as working through and discussing specific examples for synchronous, asynchronous, and face-to-face teaching. This workshop is developed from highly successful pilot workshops that have been run from November 2020 at King’s College London across diverse faculties and different levels of educators, including being the most popular session at the 2021 King’s Learning and Teaching Conference. The workshop will cover the following topics: discuss the importance of considering neurodiverse and disabled students in higher education, introduce general principles for inclusive pedagogy, guide participants through a variety of examples via breakout rooms. This workshop fills a gap in providing pedagogical behaviourally focused teaching tips that can be implemented immediately, including in conjunction with a variety of learning technologies. The research and practice behind this session combines pedagogical canon around the importance of structure and student engagement with clinical research on learning disabilities, practical teaching experience, and 1:1 work with neurodiverse students.