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On-Demand Access: Now–January 31, 2025
Teaching to Include and Empower Students
Marybeth Gasman • Rutgers University
In this plenary presentation, Marybeth Gasman will share strategies for faculty to teach in ways that speak to the experiences of all students, and share methods for empowering all students to learn by building on their unique identities and contributions to the classroom. Participants will learn how to craft culturally relevant pedagogy, how to design course that center students, how to incorporate student identities, and how to build on community needs and challenges in course assignments. Gasman will challenge participants to rethink the way they “learned” how to teach and the way they engage students in learning, encouraging them to use more innovative approaches and to engage students in peer-to-peer learning. Her approach will pay special attention to students of color, and teaching to empower them to do their best.
Our Presenter
Marybeth Gasman is a distinguished professor, and the associate dean for Research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. She also serves as the executive director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity & Justice and the executive director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. She is the author or editor of 33 books, including Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015 with Clif Conrad), Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019 with Thai-Huy Nguyen), Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022), and her newest book HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024).
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