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 …
Category: Wellness
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 …
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing in 2021: Strategies & 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 for our students and ourselves in the upcoming semester, while respecting our personal and professional boundaries and limitations? Why should we even consider this? Building …
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. …
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 faculty and for students. But feelings of failure also invite us to reflect upon our pedagogy and our courses, and to extract valuable lessons that …
