The TLC Workshop Archive shares workshop materials for reuse and remixing by anyone who might be interested in running a workshop developed by the TLC staff.  Workshop materials presented here include agendas, outreach copy, activities, readings, and more. All materials in the archive were developed by Teaching and Learning Center staff and fellows since 2016.

All materials in the workshop archive are openly licensed and available for reuse and remixing by all. Please feel free to get in touch with us at tlc(at)gc.cuny.edu if you have questions, feedback, or want to share with us how you reused these materials.

All Workshops

View a full list of past workshop run by TLC staff.

Accessibility

Open up and design your course for all students.

Affect, Art, & Visual Methods

Use multimedia, multimodal, reflective pedagogies.

Assessment

Consider new approaches for assessing student learning and reflecting on our teaching.

Assignment Design

Develop assignments that engage and empower students as knowledge producers.

Course Planning

Get guidance on setting up your course, choosing materials, and crafting assignments.

Educational Technology

Leverage technology thoughtfully to support your pedagogy.

In the Classroom

Discover strategies for engagement, participation, active learning, creativity and more.

International Students

Guidance for international students teaching at CUNY.

Languages

Strategies for incorporating cultural content and exploring linguistic practices in your course.

Place-based Pedagogy

Teaching and learning in context.

Summer Institute 2020

Series of online workshops developed and offered at the June 2020 Teach@CUNY Summer Institute

Teaching Portfolio

Reflecting on your teaching experiences and collecting your materials.

Wellness

Foster well-being and address failure.

Writing Across the Curriculum

Incorporate writing assignments into your course, no matter the discipline.

Accessibility

• Toward Generative Assessment: Challenging punitive systems of grading
• Equity and Access in the Online Learning Space
• Designing Accessible Writing Experiences
• Accessibility

Affect, Arts-based, and Visual Methods

• Using Photography in the Classroom: Centering Student Participation and Creative Expression
• Practicing Ritual as a Way to Build Community in the Classroom
• Close Looking
• Museum Pedagogy
• Teaching with Images
• Teaching with Short Docs
• Art, Affect, and Embodied Learning

Assessment

• Student Agency and the Labor of Grading
• Toward Generative Assessment
• Student Agency & the Labor of Grading
• Toward Generative Assessment: Challenging punitive systems of grading
• Reframing the Final Paper: Alternative & Creative Assignments
• Peer Review
• End of Semester Assessment
• Teaching Portfolio

Assignment Design

• Resocializing Reading
• Learning Can Be Fun! Creating Low-Stakes Assignments
• Using Backwards Design: A Practical Guide to Creating Assignments
• Reframing the Final Paper: Alternative & Creative Assignments
• Reframing the Final Paper: Alternative and Creative Assignments
• Social Reading and Writing
• Peer Review
• Putting NYC to Work: Using Place-Based Assignments in Your Courses
• Expanding your Pedagogical Toolkit
• Museum Pedagogy
• Creative Assignment Design

Course Planning

• Student Agency and the Labor of Grading
• Who Am I When I Teach? 
• Balancing Time: Managing Time While Teaching and Learning
• Making Office Hours Work
• Student Agency & the Labor of Grading
• Decolonizing Pedagogy
• Building Student Input in Your Syllabus
• Series on Teaching with the CUNY Academic Commons (WordPress)
• Equity and Access in the Online Learning Space
• Getting Started with OER
• Teaching as a T.A.
• Bridging Lecture and Lab
• Approaches to Course Design
• Incorporating Cultural Content in the Language Classroom
• Expanding your Pedagogical Toolkit

Educational Technology

• Using Generative AI for “Uncreative Writing”
• Open Pedagogy Interventions while Teaching Remotely: Place-based and Digital Storytelling Projects
• Ethical Approaches to Ed Tech
• Video Production for Online Teaching
• Series on Teaching with the CUNY Academic Commons (WordPress)
• Using Online Polls to Promote Active Learning and Student Engagement
• Cultivating Student Participation Using Online Polls
• Social Reading and Writing
• Demystifying Ed Tech
• Teaching with Social Media
• Web-based Technologies
• Ethical Tech: Choosing Digital Tools for Teaching
• Teaching with WordPress & the CUNY Academic Commons

In The Classroom

• Student Agency and the Labor of Grading
• Resocializing Reading
• Who Am I When I Teach? 
• Using NYC Data for Culturally Responsive Teaching
• Questions are the answers: A pedagogical tool for interactive classrooms
• Student Agency & the Labor of Grading
•  Practical Guide to Active Learning in STEM Classrooms
• Learning Can Be Fun! Creating Low-Stakes Assignments
• Speech Communications in the Virtual Classroom
• Using Online Polls to Promote Active Learning and Student Engagement
• Cultivating Participation & Engagement
• Activating Linguistic Diversity in the Classroom
• Teaching Labs and Pandemic STEM Teaching
• Practicing Ritual as a Way to Build Community in the Classroom
• Close Looking

International Students

• Activating Linguistic Diversity in the Classroom
• Working with ELL/ESL Students
• Teaching as an International Student

Languages

• A Critical Approach to non-F2F Language Teaching
• Activating Linguistic Diversity in the Classroom
• Incorporating Cultural Content in the Language Classroom
• Languages
• Questioning our Linguistic Practices
• Working with ELL/ESL Students

Place-based Pedagogy

• Open Pedagogy Interventions while Teaching Remotely: Place-based and Digital Storytelling Projects
• Putting NYC to Work: Using Place-Based Assignments in Your Courses
• Museum Pedagogy

Teaching Portfolios

• Who Am I When I Teach? 
• Drafting Teaching Statements
• Teaching Portfolio

Teach@CUNY Summer Institute

• Ethical Approaches to Ed Tech
• Mental Wellness and Education in the time of Coronavirus
• Decolonizing Pedagogy
• Building Student Input in Your Syllabus
• Speech Communications in the Virtual Classroom
• Video Production for Online Teaching
• Series on Teaching with the CUNY Academic Commons (WordPress)
• Equity and Access in the Online Learning Space
• Using Online Polls to Promote Active Learning and Student Engagement
• Getting Started with OER
• Teaching as a T.A.
• Bridging Lecture and Lab
• Using Backwards Design: A Practical Guide to Creating Assignments
• A Critical Approach to non-F2F Language Teaching
• Using Photography in the Classroom: Centering Student Participation and Creative Expression

WAC

• Resocializing Reading
• Designing Accessible Writing Experiences
• Writing in Non-writing Courses
• Writing Across the Curriculum

Wellness

• Balancing Time: Managing Time While Teaching and Learning
• Mental Wellness and Education in the time of Coronavirus
• Mental & Emotional Wellbeing in 2021: Strategies & Practices for All Educators
• Student Trauma and Well-being
• Troubleshooting Failure