All workshops organized alphabetically.
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A Critical Approach to non-F2F Language Teaching
Face-to-face language courses tend to use in-class time mostly for lecture and language practice. Such instructional modes are difficult when, as in our current public health crisis, teaching and learning… Read More »A Critical Approach to non-F2F Language Teaching
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Abolitionist Pedagogies: Dismantling Carceral Logics and Practices Panel
Are you searching for ways to make your classroom environment more collaborative, liberating and supportive? Have you been wondering what abolition means and looks like in an academic context? Or… Read More »Abolitionist Pedagogies: Dismantling Carceral Logics and Practices Panel
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Accessibility and Visual Culture
This workshop will introduce participants to the guidelines of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and will share practical strategies for designing accessible teaching materials, with a focus on visual and… Read More »Accessibility and Visual Culture
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Accessibility Workshop
While many instructors think of accessibility in relation to disability, accessible course design benefits all students. In this workshop, we will investigate what it means to create accessible classes, and… Read More »Accessibility Workshop
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Activating Linguistic Diversity in the Classroom
CUNY’s classrooms are famously diverse, a reality reflected in the vast number of languages spoken by undergraduate students. Have you thought about how this language diversity will impact your teaching,… Read More »Activating Linguistic Diversity in the Classroom
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Active Learning and Classroom Discussion
For many instructors, having a classroom full of eager and active students is a persistent goal and recurring challenge. Are you looking to improve student participation in your classes? Do… Read More »Active Learning and Classroom Discussion
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AI Literacy and Disciplinary Thinking
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… Read More »AI Literacy and Disciplinary Thinking
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AI Literacy and Game-Based Learning
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… Read More »AI Literacy and Game-Based Learning
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Approaches to Course Design
In this workshop we will discuss how to effectively approach course design and planning, and we will workshop your ideas and discuss syllabi for courses attendees are going to teach… Read More »Approaches to Course Design
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Art, Affect, and Embodied Learning
The classroom is often thought of solely as a space for the mind, emphasizing the intellectual aspects of learning. Minds, however, don’t enter into instructional spaces separated from bodies. Bodies… Read More »Art, Affect, and Embodied Learning
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Balancing Teaching and Research as a Graduate Student
Do you struggle to balance the demands of teaching and research? Committing to both while making steady progress towards your degree presents a range of opportunities but also comes with… Read More »Balancing Teaching and Research as a Graduate Student
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Balancing Time: Managing Time While Teaching and Learning
Effectively managing your time requires balancing teaching, research, your course load, and often other work. This workshop will offer strategies to help you balance your responsibilities as a teacher and… Read More »Balancing Time: Managing Time While Teaching and Learning
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Bridging Lecture and Lab
Science courses are typically split between lecture and laboratory instruction. Lecture is used to provide students with foundational, structured knowledge, and labs allow students to make direct observations and develop… Read More »Bridging Lecture and Lab
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Building Student Input in Your Syllabus
As Bettina Love has noted, abolitionist teaching moves from, or with, critiques of injustice, towards liberation. This approach requires educators to put in “the work” of organizing around education in… Read More »Building Student Input in Your Syllabus
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Close Looking
What can the pedagogy of “close looking” offer to classes both inside and outside of the humanities? Join the TLC to explore visual pedagogy and visual thinking strategies in a… Read More »Close Looking
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Communicating Through Questions
We ask our students questions on our syllabi, in classroom discussions, in brief hallway encounters, on their essay assignments and exams. Too often, though, questions we ask in class seek… Read More »Communicating Through Questions
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Conflicts as Sites of Learning
Do you occasionally find yourself avoiding conflicts in the classroom? Do you wonder why conflicts emerge, and how educators can de-escalate? CUNY classrooms include students with many perspectives, voices, and… Read More »Conflicts as Sites of Learning
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Creative Assignment Design
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… Read More »Creative Assignment Design
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Creativity
Are you looking for ways to spur your students’ creativity inside and outside the classroom? Often in our classrooms we teach students to think, read, and write “critically” with an… Read More »Creativity
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Cultivating Participation and Engagement
Students’ participation and engagement are key measures not only of motivation, but they also provide a way to formatively evaluate and summatively assess their learning. Facilitating participation and understanding engagement… Read More »Cultivating Participation and Engagement
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Cultivating Student Participation Using Online Polls
You probably have had classes during which most of your students do not turn on their cameras, or you ask questions and no one responds, or moments that you try… Read More »Cultivating Student Participation Using Online Polls
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Decolonizing Pedagogy
As the decolonial paradigm gains traction in the world of education, we pause to consider what that means in CUNY, how it is connected to larger discourses and practices by… Read More »Decolonizing Pedagogy
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Demystifying Ed Tech
Too often, conversations about educational technology are rife with black and white thinking. On the one hand, some assume that the introduction of technology into pedagogy will destroy the relationship… Read More »Demystifying Ed Tech
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Designing Accessible Writing Experiences
Are you thinking about how to provide your students opportunities to demonstrate their learning through writing? Are you interested in crafting assignments that allow students to authentically express what they… Read More »Designing Accessible Writing Experiences
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Developing a Digital Portfolio
Developing your own digital portfolio gives you agency over how you are presented online. A digital portfolio allows you to publicize your academic work, report on research, share creative endeavors,… Read More »Developing a Digital Portfolio
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Developing Your Teaching Persona and Classroom Community
What makes a classroom feel like a community? For many teachers, this is an ongoing goal as we work to foster an environment of interconnected learning and camaraderie. Come learn… Read More »Developing Your Teaching Persona and Classroom Community
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Drafting Teaching Statements
The teaching statement–sometimes called a statement of teaching philosophy–is an important artifact in the academic job search. It can deepen a hiring committee’s sense of who you are as an… Read More »Drafting Teaching Statements
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Embodied Knowledges
Trusting our experiences in the classroom as learners and teachers helps to make us better practitioners. The bodies and multi-faceted identities that we teach with are key to that experience.… Read More »Embodied Knowledges
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End of Semester Assessment
Are you feeling overwhelmed by end-of-semester grading? In this workshop, we’ll discuss how to streamline your end-of-semester workload by developing strategies to mark assignments, including papers and final exams, quickly… Read More »End of Semester Assessment
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Equity and Access in the Online Learning Space
This workshop bridges the concepts of equity (broadly conceived) and accessibility, treating them as related and intersecting. Its intention is to increase our collective and individual capacity to become more… Read More »Equity and Access in the Online Learning Space
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Equity-Oriented Teaching Workshop
As CUNY Graduate Student Instructors or Adjunct Instructors, we teach students with diverse levels of preparation for and understanding of the public higher education system. This workshop will introduce instructional… Read More »Equity-Oriented Teaching Workshop
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Ethical Approaches to Ed Tech
Digital learning technologies and internet based educational tools have the ability to open up our pedagogical practices and expand how learning can happen. It is crucial that as educators, when… Read More »Ethical Approaches to Ed Tech
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Ethical Tech: Choosing digital tools for teaching
We often choose the technologies we teach with based on our learning goals, student access to tools, and how easy those technologies are to use. But how much do we… Read More »Ethical Tech: Choosing digital tools for teaching
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Expanding your Pedagogical Toolkit
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… Read More »Expanding your Pedagogical Toolkit
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Getting Comfortable with Public Speaking
Some people consider public speaking scarier than death. It also happens to be something that we must do regularly in the academy, including in our roles as instructors. Whatever our… Read More »Getting Comfortable with Public Speaking
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Getting Started with OER
This workshop will provide an introduction to open digital pedagogy by focusing on a core tenet of open teaching: the use of open educational resources, or OER. New York State… Read More »Getting Started with OER
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Improv for Academics
Does the thought of being in front of a classroom cause you anxiety? Are you looking for ways to help your students be less nervous and more comfortable in the… Read More »Improv for Academics
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Incorporating Cultural Content in the Language Classroom
Many language instructors enter the classroom for the first time without knowledge of language acquisition principles. They are often asked to design their classes based on a textbook that doesn’t… Read More »Incorporating Cultural Content in the Language Classroom
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Increasing Scientific Literacy
Faculty across the CUNY regularly address complex, scientifically-grounded issues such as climate change, genetically-modified foods, vaccines, and evolution. For many of these politically-charged topics, there are fundamental scientific principles that… Read More »Increasing Scientific Literacy
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Languages
Approximately 40 percent of CUNY undergraduates speak a language other than English at home, and with 174 different languages spoken across campuses, CUNY is one of the most linguistically diverse… Read More »Languages
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Learning Can Be Fun! Creating Low-Stakes Assignments
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;… Read More »Learning Can Be Fun! Creating Low-Stakes Assignments
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Making Office Hours Work
Do you find office hours underutilized or unproductive? Do your students know what office hours are for? Join us for this workshop to discuss how to co-create experiences that minimize… Read More »Making Office Hours Work
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Mental and Emotional Well-being in 2021: Strategies and practices for all educators
In a post-2020 world, how can we as CUNY educators better support our students’ and our own emotional needs? What are some practical ways to promote mental and emotional well-being… Read More »Mental and Emotional Well-being in 2021: Strategies and practices for all educators
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Mental Wellness and Education in the Time of Coronavirus
NYC as a whole and most CUNY students will continue to be affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. This workshop explores how the transition to distance learning has impacted mental and… Read More »Mental Wellness and Education in the Time of Coronavirus
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Museum Pedagogy
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… Read More »Museum Pedagogy
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Navigating “Politics” in the Classroom
How do you approach discussing (or not discussing) politics and/or current events with students? What concerns do you have in doing so? On the one hand, as educators we want… Read More »Navigating “Politics” in the Classroom
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New York City as the Classroom: An Introduction to Place-Based Pedagogy
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.… Read More »New York City as the Classroom: An Introduction to Place-Based Pedagogy
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Open Pedagogy Interventions while Teaching Remotely: Place-based and digital storytelling projects
Many of our teaching and learning practices have shifted since we have been forced to only teach remotely. However, our pedagogy, assignments, and classroom projects can still have a meaningful… Read More »Open Pedagogy Interventions while Teaching Remotely: Place-based and digital storytelling projects
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Participation
For many instructors, having a classroom full of eager and active students is a persistent goal and recurring challenge. Are you looking for ways to improve student participation in your… Read More »Participation
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Patterns, Places, & Pedagogy
Patterns are everywhere—in nature, architecture, social interactions, and even the way we learn and think. Observing these patterns allows us to gain deeper insights into the world and how we… Read More »Patterns, Places, & Pedagogy
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Peer Review
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… Read More »Peer Review
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Practical Guide to Active Learning in STEM Classrooms
This workshop aims to provide a practical guide to promoting student-centered teaching practices and help instructors design for full participation and learning in their roles as science educators. Participants will… Read More »Practical Guide to Active Learning in STEM Classrooms
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Practicing Ritual as a Way to Build Community in the Classroom
This workshop will highlight the usefulness of practicing ritual by engaging participants in reflective activities. Building community is more difficult during these times, and this workshop will highlight how ritual… Read More »Practicing Ritual as a Way to Build Community in the Classroom
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Putting NYC to Work: Using place-based assignments in your courses
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,… Read More »Putting NYC to Work: Using place-based assignments in your courses
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Questioning Our Linguistic Practices
How does your linguistic positionality shape your teaching and learning practices? How do we engage the multilingual student body within the CUNY system? Despite the linguistic diversity within CUNY, our… Read More »Questioning Our Linguistic Practices
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Questions are the Answers: A pedagogical tool for interactive classrooms
Asking questions is a useful strategy for uncovering student thinking and generating instant feedback in classrooms. This workshop will provide practical tips to promote student engagement and help instructors design… Read More »Questions are the Answers: A pedagogical tool for interactive classrooms
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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… Read More »Reframing the Final Paper: Alternative and creative assignments
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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… Read More »Reframing the Final Paper: Alternative and creative assignments
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Resocializing Reading
“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… Read More »Resocializing Reading
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Series on Teaching with the CUNY Academic Commons (WordPress)
The CUNY Academic Commons, a WordPress teaching and learning platform based at the Graduate Center, is being used by faculty in a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses across CUNY.… Read More »Series on Teaching with the CUNY Academic Commons (WordPress)
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Social Reading and Writing
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… Read More »Social Reading and Writing
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Speech Communications in the Virtual Classroom
In spring 2020, many of us were pushed to communicate and conduct classes through our electronic devices. The move to the virtual classroom, however, was not a simple 1:1 shift.… Read More »Speech Communications in the Virtual Classroom
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Student Agency and the Labor of Grading
How can a critical approach to grading foster student agency and make grading a more meaningful, intentional process? This workshop will build on the ideas presented in the Towards Generative… Read More »Student Agency and the Labor of Grading
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Student Agency and the Labor of Grading
How can a critical approach to grading foster student agency and make grading a more meaningful, intentional process? This workshop will build on the ideas presented in the Towards Generative… Read More »Student Agency and the Labor of Grading
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Student Trauma and Well-being
Teaching as a graduate student requires a great deal of intellectual and emotional labor. Yet, most often we concentrate our efforts on teaching academic skills, leaving little space to consider… Read More »Student Trauma and Well-being
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Teaching as a T.A.
CUNY graduate students are often assigned to work as teaching assistants or lab instructors in support of large lecture classes. These assignments come with both opportunities and challenges for both… Read More »Teaching as a T.A.
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Teaching as an International Student
Teaching as an international student takes a lot of hard work and figuring out. As international graduate students, we often jungle many unknowns when we engage CUNY classrooms, classrooms that… Read More »Teaching as an International Student
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Teaching Labs and Pandemic STEM Teaching
COVID-19 has significantly altered the way we live, teach, and learn. For those of us in STEM fields, this often meant developing creative approaches to teaching labs effectively under socially… Read More »Teaching Labs and Pandemic STEM Teaching
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Teaching Portfolio
As teachers, we know the value of being reflective practitioners, but the hectic pace of the semester can make it difficult to build in time for such reflection. Getting into… Read More »Teaching Portfolio
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Teaching with Images
Images are everywhere, all the time, but often we do not give those images much more than a glance, a scroll, a swipe, or maybe a comment. Images can help… Read More »Teaching with Images
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Teaching with Short Docs
Many instructors use documentary media in their classes. Documentaries can provide additional perspectives, offer students the chance to engage with audio-visual texts, and cultivate their media literacy. However, the choice… Read More »Teaching with Short Docs
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Teaching with Social Media
Have you used or considered using social media in your classes? Teaching with social media comes with unique challenges and possibilities. Meeting learners where they are is a fundamental aspect… Read More »Teaching with Social Media
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Teaching with the CUNY Digital History Archive
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… Read More »Teaching with the CUNY Digital History Archive
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Teaching with WordPress and the CUNY Academic Commons
Join staff from the Teaching and Learning Center for a workshop on how to teach with WordPress. WordPress is a web-based publishing platform that, when used in college courses, can… Read More »Teaching with WordPress and the CUNY Academic Commons
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Toward Generative Assessment
Grading often emphasizes critique in ways that inspire fear and disengagement. Through generative assessment we aim to build relationships with our students, fostering intellectual development and enthusiasm for learning. In… Read More »Toward Generative Assessment
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Toward Generative Assessment: Challenging punitive systems of grading
Grading often emphasizes critique in ways that inspire fear and disengagement. This workshop will explore how generative assessment can affirm students’ interests, development, and academic skills. We will also provide… Read More »Toward Generative Assessment: Challenging punitive systems of grading
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Troubleshooting Failure
The end of semester brings a new urgency to the classroom, and the weight of worrying that you’ve not met expectations — fearing you’ve “failed” — can be burdensome for… Read More »Troubleshooting Failure
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UDL & Accessibility I: Centering the “U” in UDL & “I” in EDI
What is UDL (Universal Design For Learning)? Are UDL & Accessibility the same? Does updated software automatically produce accessible documents? Where does EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) fit into this… Read More »UDL & Accessibility I: Centering the “U” in UDL & “I” in EDI
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Using Archival Materials in Languages Courses
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… Read More »Using Archival Materials in Languages Courses
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Using Backwards Design: A Practical Guide to Creating 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… Read More »Using Backwards Design: A Practical Guide to Creating Assignments
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Using Generative AI for “Uncreative Writing”
The proliferation of generative AI such as ChatGPT has incited a season of pedagogical storms across college campuses, all too often leaving little dry land between panic and panacea. This… Read More »Using Generative AI for “Uncreative Writing”
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Using NYC Data for Culturally Responsive Teaching
Culturally responsive teaching requires a learning space that is grounded in local, real-world, and collaborative contexts. These pedagogical approaches help our students find connections and relevance between course content and… Read More »Using NYC Data for Culturally Responsive Teaching
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Using Online Polls to Promote Active Learning and Student Engagement
“Technology doesn’t inherently improve learning; it merely makes possible effective pedagogy, and only when it is consonant with an instructor’s educational philosophy and beliefs and reinforced by other components of… Read More »Using Online Polls to Promote Active Learning and Student Engagement
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Using Photography in the Classroom: Centering Student Participation and Creative Expression
As we prepare to teach in online and hybrid classrooms in the fall semester and beyond, the challenges of maintaining student engagement and lifting up student voices require attention as… Read More »Using Photography in the Classroom: Centering Student Participation and Creative Expression
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Video Production for Online Teaching
This workshop, courtesy of the PublicsLab at the Graduate Center, offers three videos: a “crash course” approach to audio/video production; a primer on “Camera Angles and Lighting Techniques” and “Advanced… Read More »Video Production for Online Teaching
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Web-based Technologies
This workshop is targeted towards both beginner and intermediate level college teachers who want to learn about how to introduce technology into their pedagogy. We will showcase a number of… Read More »Web-based Technologies
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Who Am I When I Teach?
Considering who and how you would like to be as an instructor is a critical step in developing your pedagogy. The version of yourself that you bring to class each… Read More »Who Am I When I Teach?
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Why Do We grade? Critical Approaches to Grading
What do we grade, and for what purpose? Grading can be a painful experience – for both students and professors alike. This workshop will explore critical approaches to grading and… Read More »Why Do We grade? Critical Approaches to Grading
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Why We Teach, Who We Teach, and What We Teach
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”… Read More »Why We Teach, Who We Teach, and What We Teach
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Working with ELL/ESL Students
CUNY classrooms frequently feature students with a variety of language backgrounds. This workshop explores the ways in which that diversity can be an asset to a classroom and will offer… Read More »Working with ELL/ESL Students
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Writing Across the Curriculum
This workshop introduces instructors to the principles of WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) pedagogy. At the core of these pedagogies is the idea that students do not just learn to… Read More »Writing Across the Curriculum
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Writing in Non-writing Courses
Are you looking for ways to help your students better process theoretical, abstract, or quantitative material? Or for ways to help them recognize and articulate the broader relevance and applicability… Read More »Writing in Non-writing Courses
