Designing an Inclusive Curriculum

Designing an Inclusive Curriculum

This Inclusive Design Guide has been developed to support staff who are involved in the curriculum design process. It brings together a range of definitive information about inclusive course design at Sheffield Hallam University.

Whatever your experience, our Designing an Inclusive Curriculum Design Guide is intended to support you and your course team in a practical way, it aims to help you make the most of the opportunity the design and validation process provides to plan and develop your course. It contains up-to-date information which is applicable and useful to anyone who has a role in creating and refreshing courses and incorporates references to faculty-based information and resources where relevant.

Our vision is ‘Sheffield Hallam: A Culture of Inclusion’. This means creating a diverse, inclusive and welcoming environment in which everyone feels they belong, irrespective of background or identity. The Hallam Equity, Equality and Inclusion (EEDI) Framework sets out our vision, aims and equality objectives that will guide Hallam towards becoming the inclusive university we aspire to be. 

The Hallam Model Inclusive Prompts have been devised to support course design teams to align the Hallam Model principles with those of an inclusive curriculum. These prompts can be found under reach of the principles, Engage - Challenge - Collaborate - Thrive and are used as part of the course approval process to support course design teams to apply an inclusive lens to their teaching, learning and enhancement practices and will be explored during the validation panel event. The prompts consist of an introduction module followed by a section on each principle giving examples of how you might illustrate how the course will achieve each of the associated prompts. 


Guidance on the use of 'exemplars' to support students' learning

This resource provides a explanation of how to use exemplars, examples of how they are being used by colleagues at Sheffield Hallam and signposts you to useful information and papers on exemplars from across the sector.

Guidance on the use of 'exemplars' to support students' learning

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Sheffield Hallam Guidance - 

External Guidance - 

Advance HE: Education for Mental Health Toolkit. Designed to provide evidence informed guidance on the ways in which curriculum can support both wellbeing and learning. It has been developed for academic staff, academic managers, university leaders and all of those involved in the development and delivery of curriculum, within Higher Education. It is grounded in the research literature and has been created through research and co-creation with students, academics, Quality staff, Learning and Teaching staff and Principal Fellows of the HEA.

Examples:

Portfolio Redevelopment

During semester 1 2023/24, the Academic Development & Inclusion Team (ADI) provided support to our colleagues in implementing the inclusive curriculum principles in advance of revalidation. Here's the outline of this programme

10 Degrees of Change

The Academic Development & Inclusion Team (ADI) have created these 10 prompts which aim to support making your learning, teaching and assessment practice more inclusive.

 

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Student Equality and Inclusion can help support you with staff development on a range of teaching topics and how inclusion can be an integral part of your practice.