Religious & Spiritual Identities in an Inclusive Class √ §
How can we foster positive teaching & learning experiences?
Location
The Center for Well-Being : 118
Date & Time
April 22, 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
Religious and Spiritual Identities in the Inclusive Classroom
How prepared do you feel to respond if students raise issues of spirituality or religion in your classroom? How and when might it be appropriate to acknowledge diverse spiritualities in the classroom, and how might doing so foster positive teaching and learning experiences? To explore these questions, and others you might have about how students’ spiritual/religious identities may show up in your classroom, come to this collaborative session with Matt Hoffman, Assistant Director of Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion, and Belonging (i3b), and Jennifer Mata-McMahon, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education and Director of the Sherman Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities, facilitated by the FDC. You’ll come away with up-to-date information about the diversity in UMBC students’ religious identities, resources to support these identities, and strategies for setting boundaries while modeling inclusion in your classroom.
Note that this session is being held in person in the Center for Well-Being (CWB; see map) and lunch will be provided. An optional tour of the CWB and its community resources will be offered immediately following the program, from 1-1:30pm. Please RSVP in advance as space is limited.
The Center for Well-Being is located across the field from the library and catty corner (Northeast) from the Commons.
Lunch will be provided to all registered participants, please click “Going” below to reserve your seat for this session. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to note any dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, food
allergies, etc.) by Monday, April 15. The deadline to register
for this event is the earlier of Monday, April 15 or when the
event reaches capacity. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to be added to a wait list if the event is full. If you have
registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release
your spot so that others may attend.
√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
Part of the FDC Diverse Classroom Series
Launched in February 2017!
Sessions in this series are designed to help you capture UMBC’s strengths in diversity to create vibrant learning environments--environments that effectively challenge and support every student. During interactive sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will help you address challenges and explore key questions, for example,
Launched in February 2017!
Sessions in this series are designed to help you capture UMBC’s strengths in diversity to create vibrant learning environments--environments that effectively challenge and support every student. During interactive sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will help you address challenges and explore key questions, for example,
- How can you learn about your classroom audience to better connect with your students and reflect on their learning needs?
- How can you make your classroom more hospitable for all learners?
- How can you handle sensitive discussions in your classroom?
- How can you ensure that students from different academic and social backgrounds and with different physical and cognitive abilities experience classrooms where they are welcomed, challenged, and supported?
- aspire to make their classrooms more inclusive of our diverse student population.
Please note that this is an in person program with lunch! Therefore, registration will close on April 15 or when we reach the room's capacity. Funding for in person programs is limited, so we ask that you please commit to coming upon registration and kindly release your spot if you can no longer attend.
