One essential area where faculty members can fulfill their obligation to this imperative is the classroom. His suggestions, however, are geared toward discussion courses. Consequently, some of his ideas may not be easy for faculty members to employ when working with more than 15 to 20 students.
Pedagogical style is a key factor in the formula for being a successful teacher.
I tend to use an interactive approach, which encourages students to engage themselves actively in the learning process. Although this strategy is harder to exercise in large lectures than in seminars, using it is both possible and crucial to promoting diversity in the classroom. In some ways, an interactive approach is similar to the discussion method Billingsley describes. To establish such an environment in a medium-sized classroom, however, a professor cannot literally involve each student in every discussion. But she can set a tone that allows all students to feel like part of the process, whether they express themselves through speech or not.