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 our recent workshops or visit the TLC Workshop Archive to browse past offerings.
TLC Institutes
Each summer the TLC hosts the Teach@CUNY Summer Institute, which prepares doctoral students to teach at CUNY for the first time. The TLC has also developed additional institutes on STEM Pedagogy, Open Publishing, and Critical AI Literacy.
Focused Inquiry Groups
Focused Inquiry Groups (FIGs) bring together a small group of graduate students to meet regularly over the course of a semester. They explore a strategy or set of questions related to college-level teaching and learning, produce an event or a publicly shared resource about what they’ve learned.
TLC Fellowships
TLC Fellows support CUNY Graduate Center students who are teaching across CUNY by consulting with graduate instructors during office hours, developing workshops and Focused Inquiry Groups, producing content for the Center’s Teach@CUNY Handbook and blog (Visible Pedagogy), planning and facilitating the Teach@CUNY Summer Institutes, organizing panel discussions and class visits, and contributing to a range of special projects.
Teaching Strategies Graduate Course
Teaching Strategies (PDEV 79401) is a zero-credit course that provides Graduate Center students from all disciplines with community and structure to help them reflect upon their development as teachers. The course runs each semester, mixes short theoretical readings, practical considerations, and reflection.
Learn more about the Teaching Strategies (PDEV 79401) course
Pizza and Pedagogy
The TLC sponsors Pizza and Pedagogy conversations hosted by the Graduate Center’s academic programs. TLC staff are also available to visit programs for orientations, professional development days and seminars, and discussions of curriculum.
Read our program announcement here, and email tlc @ gc.cuny.edu to learn more
Mentorship
The TLC has worked on a variety of mentoring projects, theorizing peer/near-peer/senior-junior colleague mentorship and building curricula to help graduate students understand the relationships at the heart of this role. Projects include the CUNY Humanities Alliance, Pedagogy in Practice, the GC-Hostos Community College Research Mentors Program, the Transfer to STEM Student Success (TS3) Program, and the Senior Music Teaching Fellow Program.
