Culturally Inclusive Instructional Design and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Facilitators: Yuliya Zabyelina, Political Science; Esther Kreider-Verhalle, Sociology

Monthly Zoom synchronous meetings

●      Time:10-11:45am via Zoom

●      Fall 2022: 10/12. 11/9. 12/7

●      Spring 2023: 2/8, 3 8, 4/12

This is a 2-semester faculty seminar held throughout academic year 2022-2023. The seminar focuses on expanding faculty’s knowledge and expertise with culturally inclusive instructional design. The participants will discuss the inclusive classroom, alternatives to lectures, useful assessments, creative feedback, digital literacy, and flexible workspace framed within the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework that aims to improve and optimize teaching and learning for different kinds of learners irrespective of discipline or domain.

This is a hands-on workshop designed to help faculty to integrate intercultural learning in classroom, research, and community activities to promote appreciation of diverse worldviews, empathy for differences, and respect for different ways of knowing, thinking, and being. Faculty will develop and/or update course assignments (or syllabi) to promote inclusive classroom and student success using culturally mindful approaches, engaging pedagogies that cultivate active learners and allows them to represent learning in multiple ways.

Seminar participants will be asked to identify a particular assignment or syllabus at the beginning of each semester with the seminar team for brainstorming, discussion, and the final project assignment.

Seminar goals:

1. Internationalizing and diversifying the classroom experience in support of the College’s 7 Principles for a Culturally Responsive, Inclusive and Anti-Racist Curriculum: http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/u1862/principles_for_a_culturally_responsive_inclusive_and_antiracist_curriculum_adopted_by_college_council_april8_2021.pdf 

2. Support inclusive learning experiences using the UDL framework: https://udlguidelines.cast.org/

3. Promote culturally mindful self-reflection whereby faculty are invited to rethink their pedagogies in light of accessibility and relevance of content and format for all learners.


Participants who complete the seminar and submit their term assignments will be paid approximately $1,200 at NTA rates. Participants must comply with College and university workload policies in order to be paid for seminar participation.

Applications are due Friday, September 23, 11:59 pm ET

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●      Time:10-11:45am via Zoom

●      Fall 2022: 10/12. 11/9. 12/7

●      Spring 2023: 2/8, 3 8, 4/12

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