Office Hours & Consultations
Graduate Center students and faculty can stop by the TLC or request a consultation to discuss any questions or concerns related to their teaching. TLC staff can provide guidance on assignment design, curriculum development, course preparation, educational technology, SoTL, and other topics. Graduate students can also receive feedback on teaching statements and preparation for the job market.
Workshops
Each semester, TLC Fellows host a variety of workshops to foster pedagogical dialogue and provide graduate students with actionable strategies and feedback to refine their teaching. Recent workshops include “Building Community with Routine and Ritual,” “Disciplinary Thinking and AI Literacy,” “Noticing,” “Resocializing Reading,” and “Using NYC Data for Culturally Responsive Teaching.”
View recent workshops below or visit the TLC Workshop Archive to browse past offerings.
Teach@CUNY Summer Institute
Launched in Summer 2018, the TLC’s Teach@CUNY Summer Institute is available to doctoral students between their first and second years. Beyond the training the Institute provides new college teachers, the Institute also facilitates the exploration of pedagogy and prepares graduate students not only for their upcoming teaching responsibilities, but for a lifetime as engaged, committed educators.
Focused Inquiry Groups
Focused Inquiry Groups (FIGs) bring together a small group of graduate students to meet regularly over the course of a semester to explore a strategy or set of questions related to college-level teaching and learning, leading to an event or publicly shared resource.
Teaching Strategies Graduate Course
Teaching Strategies (PDEV 79401) provides Graduate Center students from all disciplines with community and structure to help them prepare for and reflect upon their development as teachers. Each semester the TLC staff offer the semester-long PDEV course for graduate students interested in diving deeply into teaching-related topics with their peers.
Critical AI Literacy Institute
Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have had material, ecological, labor, and political implications that fundamentally challenge how faculty and students approach teaching and learning. In 2025, the Teaching and Learning Center at the CUNY Graduate Center launched the Critical AI Literacy Institute (CALI), which brings CUNY faculty together to explore how generative artificial intelligence shapes knowledge production within their academic disciplines.
Past Programming
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Office Hours and Consultations
Graduate Center students and faculty can stop by the TLC or request a consultation to discuss any questions or concerns related to their teaching. TLC staff can provide guidance on assignment design, curriculum development, course preparation, educational technology, SoTL, and other topics. Graduate students can also receive feedback on teaching statements and preparation for the job market.
Workshops
Each semester, TLC Fellows host a variety of workshops to foster pedagogical dialogue and provide graduate students with actionable strategies and feedback to refine their teaching. Recent workshops include “Building Community with Routine and Ritual,” “Disciplinary Thinking and AI Literacy,” “Noticing,” “Resocializing Reading,” and “Using NYC Data for Culturally Responsive Teaching.”
View our recent workshops or visit the TLC Workshop Archive to browse past offerings.
Teach@CUNY Summer Institute
Launched in Summer 2018, the TLC’s Teach@CUNY Summer Institute is available to doctoral students between their first and second years. Beyond the training the Institute provides new college teachers, the Institute also facilitates the exploration of pedagogy and prepares graduate students not only for their upcoming teaching responsibilities, but for a lifetime as engaged, committed educators.
Focused Inquiry Groups
Focused Inquiry Groups (FIGs) bring together a small group of graduate students to meet regularly over the course of a semester to explore a strategy or set of questions related to college-level teaching and learning, leading to an event or publicly shared resource.
Teaching Strategies Graduate Course
Teaching Strategies (PDEV 79401) provides Graduate Center students from all disciplines with community and structure to help them prepare for and reflect upon their development as teachers. Each semester the TLC staff offer the semester-long PDEV course for graduate students interested in diving deeply into teaching-related topics with their peers.
Critical AI Literacy Institute
Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have had material, ecological, labor, and political implications that fundamentally challenge how faculty and students approach teaching and learning. In 2025, the Teaching and Learning Center at the CUNY Graduate Center launched the Critical AI Literacy Institute (CALI),which draws together CUNY faculty to explore how generative artificial intelligence is impacting knowledge production within their academic disciplines.
Open Education
In recent years, New York State has invested in the development and deployment of OER at CUNY and instructors across the university are using and creating open educational resources that can be reused and remixed from semester to semester. In conjunction with using OER, faculty also engage open educational practices to incorporate digital and open source tools, center student knowledge, and foster students’ digital skills and literacies.
Learn more about open education at the TLC.
