The CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA) is “a counter-institutional archive” that centers CUNY’s histories as a site of organizing, learning and transformation, including the fight for Puerto Rican studies at Brooklyn College, the Save Hostos campaign, the Student Liberation Action… Read More »Teaching with the CUNY Digital History Archive
How can our teaching honestly and openly reflect the world in which our students live and help them envision the futures they want to create? We will consider the “why” behind our teaching, discuss the role of students’ lived experiences… Read More »Why We Teach, Who We Teach, and What We Teach
When we take our students out of the classroom and into the streets of New York, class material can come alive in entirely new ways and resonate with students’ experiences. This workshop will cover strategies for incorporating place-based pedagogy into… Read More »New York City as the Classroom: An Introduction to Place-Based Pedagogy
This workshop introduces game-based strategies for teaching with and about artificial intelligence. Participants will learn how to develop students’ AI literacy through interactive storytelling, collaborative problem solving, doodling, and notecard exercises. We will also discuss how to teach methods of… Read More »AI Literacy and Game-Based Learning
Instructors teaching with artificial intelligence face critical issues in data privacy, intellectual property, and algorithmic bias. Join us to learn how these concerns can inform the selection of AI tools suitable for your discipline and how to impart similar AI… Read More »AI Literacy and Disciplinary Thinking
Using archival materials in the language classrooms can help students connect to historical events, better understand the present, and think about language and culture through their own disciplinary perspectives. This workshop is for graduate student instructors that would like to… Read More »Using Archival Materials in Languages Courses
“In the official university,” write Tonika Sealy Thompson and Stefano Harney, “reading is outsourced…The classroom is a reading-free zone.” I suspect we all have experienced this phenomenon all too often as both students and teachers. Reading is what we do… Read More »Resocializing Reading
Assignments can be used to inspire curiosity, help students build community with each other, and provide tools to think critically beyond the classroom. They don’t need to be obligatory benchmarks; in fact, assignments can even be fun! In this workshop,… Read More »Learning Can Be Fun! Creating Low-Stakes Assignments
This workshop walks participants through the principals of backwards design and how they can be used as a framework for developing any assignment across disciplines. This easy step by step breakdown of using backwards design is accompanied by additional resources… Read More »Using Backwards Design: A Practical Guide to Creating Assignments
Writing is a central aspect of academic life. As instructors, we regularly assign essays, compositions, proposals, annotated bibliographies, and final papers. There are, however, alternatives or accompaniments to these written assignments that may accomplish similar goals, or facilitate additional ones.… Read More »Reframing the Final Paper: Alternative and creative assignments
Writing is a central aspect of academic life. As instructors, we regularly assign essays, compositions, proposals, annotated bibliographies, and final papers. There are, however, alternatives or accompaniments to these written assignments that may accomplish similar goals. Podcasts, zines, timelines, and… Read More »Reframing the Final Paper: Alternative and creative assignments
Are you looking for ways to improve your students’ close reading skills or to kickstart class discussion by asking students to annotate readings online as a group before they come to class? Are you trying to find (new) strategies for… Read More »Social Reading and Writing
Have you ever felt concerned about your ability to provide constructive feedback to every student? Are you interested in building your students’ capacity to critically read and engage with each others’ work? Are you interested in building classroom community and… Read More »Peer Review
In the second installment of the TLC’s two-part workshop series on place-based learning, we’ll explore strategies for creating and integrating creative assignments that take advantage of New York’s cultural resources, including its many archives, museums, libraries, performing arts institutions, green… Read More »Putting NYC to Work: Using place-based assignments in your courses
Looking for new and creative instructional practices to enliven your classroom? Interested in learning new ways to structure your students’ engagement with course materials? Energetic class discussions can help connect emerging thinking to the reading students are doing. A supportive… Read More »Expanding your Pedagogical Toolkit
Over the past generation, museums have undergone an enormous transition. No longer simply repositories of artifacts and authority, they are now, as the Smithsonian’s Stephen E. Weil once described, “a place for somebody.” As museums have moved toward a visitor-centered… Read More »Museum Pedagogy
This workshop explores how to design problem-based learning (PBL) assignments that tie the practice of skills or course objectives with a direct engagement with a student’s environment. We will discuss strategies for incorporating, across the disciplines, the vast range of… Read More »Creative Assignment Design
