Outreach: 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 Assessment workshop and offer concrete practices to include students in the grading process in ways that offer multiple pathways for engagement and opportunities for …
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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 workshop aims to harness these turbulent winds in attending to how generative AI might be used to teach writing in the college classroom. Understandably many …
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 as both students and teachers. Reading is what we do outside the classroom; we’re expected to come to class already having read, already having done …
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 this workshop, we explore opportunities to provide feedback to students that generate curiosity and establish a culture of dialogue and trust. We also reflect on …
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 day is known as your “teaching persona.” It is subject to change and will constantly evolve as you go through your teaching journey. In this …
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 a graduate student. Topics to be covered include deliberate planning of your research and teaching agendas, planning time for productive class preparation, and dealing with …
Drafting Teaching Statements
Drafting Teaching Statements for the Job Market September 29, 2023 on Zoom 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 applicant and show how you enact your values and ideas as an educator. …
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 their backgrounds, communities, and identities. In this workshop, we will discuss facilitating student learning through data that is relevant to their lives and to New …
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 effective questioning strategies that lead to increased participation. Attendees will experiment with and explore the effective use of questions for inquiry-based learning and will develop …
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 stress and make way for intentional, meaningful, and productive uses of office hours for you and your students. We will review relevant PSC CUNY contract …
