Inclusive Teaching and Accessibility
Design lessons for varied learning styles, bodies and levels of experience.
Teaching more than one way
Text, audio transcripts, images with descriptions, printable notes and short knowledge checks offer different paths to understanding. Some learners will need seating, extra time, quiet spaces or alternate forms of participation.
Avoid using inaccessible ceremony as a prerequisite for a general educational certificate. If an exercise involves movement, smell, darkness or sound, give an equivalent option when practical.
Respecting worldview differences
An introductory class may include theists, polytheists, symbolic interpreters, curious outsiders, lifelong Pagans and people from other religions. Explain whose position is being taught, and do not demand affirmation of a creed in a historical knowledge quiz.
Ask for feedback and revise language that needlessly erases solitary practitioners or people outside initiatory groups.
Put it into perspective
Rewrite a class that requires spoken invocations and standing into an accessible lesson with multiple participation options.
Save a written assignment
Use the lesson's study practice to write an original response, record your sources, and revisit it later. Students may save a draft or submit it for instructor review; feedback requires an available authorized reviewer.
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Review your understanding
Choose one answer per question. Feedback explains why each answer is correct.