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TLTC Training, "Responding with Care" | April 2023

"Responding with Care"

On April 28, 2023, the Department of Art History and Archaeology hosted a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion retreat for all members of the department community. 2 faculty members, 2 staff members, and 8 graduate students attended. The agenda had two parts. In the morning, TLTC Learning Experience Designer Louisa Nkrumah, M.Ed. facilitated a session entitled “Compassion and Care in the Classroom.” After lunch, TLTC Learning Experience Designer Ginny Hutcheson facilitated a session on "Difficult Dialogues and Microaggressions." These topics were chosen by the DEI committee (E-ARTH) based on the Spring 2022 Climate Survey the department undertook and a need for recognizing how implicit bias affects how we respond and treat members of our community.

Here you'll find all the resources collated from this retreat on how to transform existing courses and build new ones with inclusion and anti-racism in mind. Each resource is provided as a google document that you may copy to your own account.

Learning about implicit bias

  • Project Implicit - a Harvard University based research initiative. Take tests on a variety of social and health-based attitudes. Your score will tell you based on your automatic responses what you are biased towards. While it is natural to question the validity of such tests, we encourage taking these assessments and self-reflecting on how you feel after receiving a score. The self-reflection may be more helpful than the score itself, especially if you think about how that particular bias may affect how you approach certain individuals and situations in your everyday life.

TLTC Resources to help you design your next course or make an existing course more accessible:

  • Powerpoint & slides for the first half of the retreat
  • Design Sprint - A program that runs 4x a year, comprised of four 1.5-hour long sessions designed to help you build community in your course, incorporate inclusive teaching practices, make accessibility friendly choices on ELMS, align assignments to your course goals, get feedback from students, and develop multimedia for engaging presence
  • Request a consultation with the TLTC to get specific feedback on how you can make your course more equitable, accessible and inclusive for you students: https://tltc.umd.edu/instructors/consultations
  • Alternative Grading approaches: click on the link for a recording on a panel for how to make grading less painful on all fronts
  • Course Design Retreats happen occasionally through the TLTC, allowing you spend a full day with TLTC to quickly revamp your syllabus. Follow the TLTC on their EventBrite page for more: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/course-design-retreat-registration-601580301877

TLTC Resources for how to facilitate difficult dialogues and address microaggressions:

  • Powerpoint & slides for second half of the retreat
  • Handout for strategies on how to respond to microaggressions