We feel that these approaches to teaching are well-supported by research on how students learn, retain and use information. We've collected articles and books about teaching and learning in many disciplines, and they will be available for your use during the workshop. Most participants are faculty members from the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. We also have had participants from the studio and performing arts, and from professional fields like nursing and social work. Faculty members at all stages of their careers regularly participate in these workshops, from younger professionals who are preparing for their first full-time faculty position to senior professors who are within a few years of retirement.
Colleges often send teams of several faculty members to the workshops.
This arrangement is helpful because participants can continue to consult with each other on the implementation of plans made during the workshop. It is hard to give a simple answer to this question. Participants in all the workshops engage with the question of the nature of multicultural teaching because it is central to the goal of reaching all students. In Multicultural Course Design and Teaching, participants delve deeply into the various meanings of the concept of multiculturalism. We begin by taking the Kolb Learning Styles Inventory, a psychological test.