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 classroom? This workshop will draw principles and exercises from improvisational theater to explore strategies for working with and calming the nerves that often accompany public …
Category: Workshops Archive
End of Semester Assessment
Are you feeling overwhelmed by end-of-semester grading? Join the Teaching and Learning Center for a workshop on End-of-Semester Assessment. 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 and efficiently. We’ll discuss ways to write clear, high-stakes assignments and consider how …
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 tools for highlighting these varied perspectives and experiences. We will also discuss specific strategies to encourage ELL students to participate in course discussions as well …
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 between student and teacher, resulting in distracted students with no ability to focus. On the other hand, some think that with the introduction of a …
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 know? It can be a challenge to provide students with academic supports while structuring deep engagement with course material, particularly in written assignments. However, there …
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 only to assess content comprehension and miss the full potential of questioning as a pedagogical tool. Probing, thoughtful questions can help students develop their critical …
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 may look and feel quite different from the ones to which we have been habituated. We might know little about our students’ previous educational experiences, …
Teaching with Social Media
This workshop was offered in Spring 2020 as an in-person workshop at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The workshop and materials were developed by Talisa Feliciano and Inés Vañó García. All materials on this page and in the linked google folder are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 4.0 International Public License. Outreach Have you …
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 or develop strategies to address our students’ emotional health, or our own. In order to learn most effectively, students must feel supported, understood and trusted. …
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 the habit of maintaining a teaching portfolio, which is often a required component of the academic job search, can ease your entry to the job …
