DEI-Informed Dialogic Pedagogy Micro-credential
CU Dialogues offers a micro-credential workshop series for CU 麻豆影院 graduate students. Micro-credentials are issued and acknowledged by CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 Registrar鈥檚 Office to recognize sustained inquiry and skill-building around a focused topic.
The Spring 2025 DEI-Informed Dialogic Pedagogy workshop series will be offered to up to 20 graduate student instructors and will meet over the course of 10 weeks. Through in-person sustained dialogue practice, asynchronous activities, and readings, participants will learn about DEI-grounded dialogue, with attention to designing and facilitating dialogic practices that center intersectional equity in classroom practices.
The creation and offering of this micro-credential is part of a long-term goal of advancing a campus culture attentive to dialogue and listening across many intersectional identities. We see this workshop series for graduate instructors as one pathway for developing a network of opportunities for undergraduate students to experience DEI-grounded dialogue in CU classes. In the future, we hope to establish a comparable workshop series for faculty.
The DEI-Informed Dialogic Pedagogy Micro-credential equips graduate students to:
- Integrate DEI-grounded dialogic practices that center intersectional equity into their teaching,
- Develop critical self-awareness around positionality and power in instructional spaces,
- Create a cross-disciplinary community for graduate students, particularly for those who are from historically marginalized backgrounds.
Workshop Series Details:
- The program will run for 10 weeks, starting the second week of the spring semester (week of Jan 27th). Thursdays 3:30-5:00pm alternating in person and remote.
- Participants should commit to one 90 minute-long meeting each week. This will be a combination of in person and remote gatherings. In addition, participants should plan on ~30 minutes of prep work before each session.
- Participants will have the rest of the fall semester to complete their learning portfolio and demonstration of competencies in order to earn the microcredential digital badge.
This workshop series is offered at no cost to participants. This is made possible through institutional seed grant funding provided by the University. The Impact Grant program was a recommendation from the Inclusion, Diversity and Excellence in Academics or IDEA Plan to operationalize and enhance a planning unit鈥檚 capacity to deepen progress on the campus鈥檚 five DEI goals.
Questions? Please contact us.