2021 Fall Faculty Institute: Innovative Pedagogy & Student Success

Kevin Gannon serves as Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and Professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he’s taught since 2004. His teaching, research, and public work (including writing) centers on critical and inclusive pedagogy; race, history, and justice; and technology and teaching. He writes for Vitae (a section of The Chronicle of Higher Education), and his essays on higher education have also been published in Vox and other media outlets. His book Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto, was published by West Virginia University press in Spring, 2020, as part of their Teaching and Learning in Higher Education series, edited by James M. Lang. He also gives frequent talks and workshops, and appeared in the Oscar-nominated documentary 13th, directed by Ava DuVernay.

You can find him on Twitter: @TheTattooedProf.

This session will explore not only the research basis for Inclusive Pedagogy, but practical strategies for its application. It’s one thing to say “these are great evidence-based practices,” but unless we’re able to put them into operation in, say, four sections of our 101 course, the evidence doesn’t help us so much. We’ll examine areas of Inclusive Pedagogy such as sense of belonging, representation, and accessibility, and participants will have the opportunity to think about how they might implement these strategies in their own practice.