Supporting Student Learning Using Inclusive Teaching Strategies
CATE TA Workshops
September 5, 2025
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Overview
UIC classrooms reflect a wide range of student identities, backgrounds, learning needs, and lived experiences. As TAs, fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible learning environment is essential to supporting all students. This interactive workshop will introduce TAs to inclusive teaching strategies – what they are, why they matter, and how to start using them right away. We’ll focus on practical, easy-to-apply strategies that help engage all students, whether you're leading a discussion section, grading assignments, or giving a lecture.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Recognize key principles of inclusive teaching and explain how they support student learning.
- Identify common barriers to student success and explore inclusive strategies to address them in various teaching contexts.
- Develop a personalized toolkit of inclusive teaching strategies for use across different instructional contexts.
WORKSHOP FORMAT: This workshop will be held on-campus, in-person in room 201 in the Teaching Excellence Building (TEB) located on 924 S. Morgan Street.
WORKSHOP FACILITATOR: Gaby Sroka, gsroka2@uic.edu
WORKSHOP CONTACT: Emily Potratz, epotra2@uic.edu
Inclusivity & Accessibility Information: CATE is committed to making events as accessible as possible. CATE’s in-person events typically involve a combination of presentation and discussion-based activities. We welcome ASL interpreters, note-takers, and accompanying assistants to all CATE events. The TEB is wheelchair accessible with an elevator to the second floor space. The TEB space is equipped with fixed-height tables that are moveable and can be reconfigured. There are single-occupancy, all-gender, accessible bathrooms on the second and basement levels of TEB. If you have any accessibility questions, requests, or to coordinate accommodations, please contact the CATE team at teaching@uic.edu.
Date posted
Aug 9, 2025
Date updated
Sep 2, 2025