How Facilitating Learner Autonomy can Foster Inclusivity
The Language Collaboratory
Event Date & Time
Monday, December 7, 2020
3:30 - 4:00 pm CST
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In this session we will explore one dimension of inclusivity: creating opportunities for each student to shape their own relevant learning experience. We will discuss a range of inclusive language teaching practices through a learner autonomy lens, and address the following questions:
- How can language teachers supply choices (without spreading themselves too thin)?
- What kinds of choices make it possible to honor students’ complex, overlapping identities?
- How can a course be structured to be enriched by diverse student proficiency levels?
- How can a course make space for both neurotypical and neurounique students to thrive?
- How does taking charge of one’s own learning engage various types of motivation?
- What kinds of community relationships can develop in a language course designed for individual personalization, and what role do these relationships play in the learning process?
Please consider sharing examples of ways that you have sought to include students by equipping them to personalize their learning experiences.
Discussant: Pamela S. H. Bogart, Lecturer IV, English Language Institute, University of Michigan.