DEDI resources for teaching and learning are designed to assist you in supporting students with challenging conversations, and alleviating anxiety, as well as offering insights into various pedagogies, and connecting you with institutional resources and supports.
Facilitating dialogue and challenging conversations in the classroom
This toolkit is offered as a starting point for faculty and TAs seeking strategies, resources or support to thoughtfully facilitate difficult conversations and moments in the classroom. Grounded in frameworks of accountability and transformative learning, the purpose of this guide is to support the art of critical dialogue as a fundamental skill for both learners and educators.
Alleviating student anxiety
A compendium of best practices and recommendations, as well as a list of resources for you and your students.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for designing diverse learning experiences to support more learners more of the time. We offer a range of resources.
- Canadian Higher Education UDL Collective - a community of educators across Canada connecting about UDL, includes resources and PD opportunities
- Universal Design for Learning: One Small Step by Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning (GMCTL) - A Pressbook
- Universal Design for Learning Series by Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at OU - A YouTube playlist of a series of videos
- The UDL Guidelines by CAST - An interactive webpage offering guidelines for implementing UDL
- Principles of UDL: Multiple Means of Representation and Engagement - An infographic
- Principles of UDL: Multiple Means of Action and Expression - An infographic
Other offices/units at York University offer DEDI-related support:
Centre for Human Rights, Equity, and Inclusion (CHREI)
Division of Equity, People, Culture
Library Accessibility Services
Student Accessibility Services
The Centre for Sexual Violence Response, Support & Education
Handouts that offer you a convenient first step by distilling hundreds of pages of professional literature into a compact resource:
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