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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Open Pedagogy Interventions while Teaching Remotely: Place-based and Digital Storytelling Projects
Outreach 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 impact by engaging resources and spaces outside of our virtual classrooms. In this workshop we will discuss Place-based and Digital Storytelling as pedagogical methods …
Β 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 discuss, explore and experience equitable active learning in the workshop. Finally, they will be able to design and share activities while receiving feedback from their …
Toward Generative Assessment: Challenging punitive systems of grading
Outreach Description Grading often emphasizes critique in ways that inspire fear and disengagement. This workshop will explore how generative assessment can affirm studentsβ interests, development, and academic skills. We will also provide instructors with tools to tackle one of the most unpleasant and labor intensive aspects of teaching: grading! This workshop was offered as part …
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 donβt need to be obligatory benchmarks; in fact, assignments can even be fun! In this workshop, we understand βfunβ as a form of joy, mobilization, and engagement in the learning process, …
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 we decide to incorporate these tools, we are aware of the ethical implications of using digital tools.When deciding which tools to use and how it …
Mental Wellness and Education in the time of Coronavirus
As we approach the fall semester, 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 psychological wellbeing in the context of a global pandemic. It will ask how trauma can inform learning, and present …
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 educators and scholars, and the ways we can conceptualize of a teaching practice that is aligned with goals and principles that are decolonizing. This session …
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 βthe workβ of organizing around education in ways that center students, specifically from underrepresented backgrounds in newly created educational systems. bell hooks encourages the creation of an active relationship between educators and …
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. Our interactions are being flattened to different degrees by video, audio, and textual modes that may or may not be happening at the same time. …
