How to Address Exclusion in Your Teaching

So now that you know what exclusion looks like, how is it best addressed in your course design and daily teaching? That is the topic of this section of the guidebook, in which we make some suggestions on how to prevent your teaching from perpetuating stereotypes and misrepresenting the target culture as bland and apolitical. We offer suggestions of three types: concerning curriculum, lesson planning, and daily classroom interactions. We will begin with a brief discussion of changes which can be made relatively easily at the curricular level. Then we will give an example of a lesson revised to promote social justice, as well as suggestions on how it could be adapted to reflect the other critical pedagogies previously discussed, before concluding with a discussion of how to help your students engage critically with the materials using micro-changes to your teaching. As always, feel free to explore the sections in any order or skip straight to the one that seems most relevant for your situation.