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Culturally responsive teaching encompasses customizing instruction and curriculum to meet the unique learning needs of culturally diverse students within a classroom setting. This approach ensures that students not only feel recognized and respected but also actively engaged in their learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Both inclusive teaching and trauma-informed pedagogy foster a learning atmosphere in which students from diverse backgrounds enjoy equitable access to education and are fully engaged in their learning journey.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Decolonization and Indigenization operate together to challenge Euro-centric, capitalist, racist, ableist, hetero-normative, and patriarchal systems through embedding and scaffolding Indigenous Knowledge into curriculum and pedagogy.<\/p>\n

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UDL is a framework that is designed to allow us to adopt teaching styles that accommodate different learning strategies and abilities. You will find some practical advice of implementing UDL principles in your classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A brief introduction to the usage and purpose of the toolkit as well as its authors.<\/p>\n

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A list of scenarios which can act as an FAQ for instructors to use as a basis to build their own ideas and approaches.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A list of terminology that are commonly used throughout the toolkit.<\/p>\n

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A list of extra resources for anyone who is looking for further information on any of the topics within the toolkit.<\/p>\n

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This website was made possible by funding from the Learning & Teaching Innovation’s Anti-Racism Initiative Grant and contributions from the UVic Libraries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Introduction<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nThis toolkit includes strategies to foster inclusive teaching practices but also use culturally responsive practices in instruction and interactions with students. Our goal in creating this toolkit is to assist librarians, faculty, and staff to use the guidelines and best practices documents created to provide practical tips and strategies to improve their classroom approaches and decolonize their curriculum.\r\n\r\nWhile also providing an overview of the frameworks, librarians and faculty will be able to adapt and build upon some of the ideas as well as tips provided. This toolkit will benefit those familiar with the culturally responsive and inclusive pedagogy frameworks and novice users. The toolkit is organized into ___ distinct sections, and each page outlines the framework and methods to incorporate into their daily practices of instruction, interactions with students, and an outline of the framework as well as methods to incorporate into their daily practices of instruction, interactions with students as well as regular work environments.\r\n

Why this toolkit?\r\n<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nOftentimes, BIPOC students feel unwelcome because of the lack of learner-centred teaching practices in the classroom. This can negatively impact student achievement and learning. At the University of Victoria, as librarians of color and as immigrants to Canada, we witnessed barriers that traditional educational approaches posed to students from marginalized and racialized backgrounds.\r\n\r\nOur goal with this toolkit was that we wanted to provide librarians, faculty, and staff an opportunity to assess their current instructional practices as well as interactions through self-reflection but also to identify and review their biases, prior assumptions and cultural competencies to discern barriers for students. We wanted this toolkit to be central to the learning and development of inclusive strategies to support the broader work of decolonization by incorporating culturally responsive and relevant pedagogies, inclusive pedagogies and by using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).\r\n

Purpose\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\r\nThe purpose of this toolkit is to offer guidance on incorporating culturally responsive teaching and inclusive pedagogies into instructional methods and student interactions. Designed for use by faculty, librarians, university staff, and library staff, the toolkit aims to enrich the learning experiences of students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.\r\n

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  4. Elevate the cultural awareness of faculty, librarians, and library staff to ensure their cultural competence when engaging with students.<\/li>\r\n \t
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