CUNY Academic Commons

The Teaching and Learning Center invites members of the CUNY community to contribute to <a href="http://cuny.is/vp">Visible Pedagogy’s</a> “Teach@CUNY Series,“ which spotlights actual assignments, activities, and approaches being used in CUNY classrooms.

Each call for contributors focuses on a single topic or theme; those interested in contr…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Graduate Center's <a href="http://cuny.is/teaching">Teaching and Learning Center</a> is pleased to announce the launch of <strong>Visible Pedagogy,</strong> a new blog about teaching and learning at CUNY: <a href="https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a&gt;

VP editor and TLC Assistant Director…[Read more]

<strong>Call for Contributing Writers!</strong>

The Graduate Center’s<a href="http://cuny.is/teaching"&gt; Teaching and Learning Center</a> (TLC) is seeking contributing writers for its new project, Visible Pedagogy. We are looking for up to three bloggers who will write a series of posts during the Spring 2017 semester on teaching and learning i…[Read more]

Please see TT Assistant Professor opportunity below, forwarded from GC Alum Kate O'Donoghue @kodonoghue of Suffolk Community College:

Link to ad, http://sunysuffolk.edu/About/Employment.asp?id=726

Text of ad:

SCCC REFERENCE #: 16-93

DATE: December 2, 2016

TITLE: Instructor/Assistant Professor – English and…[Read more]

<strong>"Teaching Philosophy and Analytical Reasoning with Argument Visualization.”</strong>
Simon Cullen (Princeton)
December 9, 3-4:30pm, Room 5200

Many students — even bright students at top research universities — have not developed their analytical reasoning abilities to the level widely presupposed by college-level curricula. They s…[Read more]

The Futures Initiative is sponsoring a <strong>Teach In/Learn In </strong>on<strong> Tuesday, November 15, 11-1 in room 3317</strong> to address issues of relevance to our students in the wake of this year’s election. Please bring ideas, syllabi, lesson plans, assignments, actions, and art.
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<li>How do we create a space for CUNY stu…[Read more]

<strong>Writing in Non-Writing Courses
Wednesday, 10/26 1-3pm Room 9207</strong>

Are you looking for ways to help your students better process theoretical, abstract, or quantitative material? Or for ways to help them recognize and articulate the broader relevance and applicability of what they’ve learned in your class? Incorporating frequent a…[Read more]

The rapid increase of textbook prices is a particular problem at a university like CUNY whose students often come from lower income backgrounds. Many students are already hard pressed to afford college, let alone expensive texts. As advocates for our students, we have the opportunity and responsibility to consider moving away from both textbooks…[Read more]

<em>The message below is being sent on behalf of the co-directors of the CUNY Syllabus Project, Laura Kane and Andy McKinney</em>

<strong>THE CUNY SYLLABUS PROJECT</strong>
(https://syllabus.commons.gc.cuny.edu)

Greetings!

Earlier this year we launched the CUNY Syllabus Project, a collaborative database for the CUNY pedagogical community…[Read more]

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The Teaching and Learning Center is pleased to announce the first Teaching and Learning Center grants initiative. This program offers support to doctoral and masters students at the CUNY Graduate Center as they develop, plan, implement,…[Read more]

<strong>Making Peer Review Work</strong>
Wednesday, 9/14 1-3pm Room 9207

Have you ever felt concerned about your ability to provide constructive feedback to every student? Are you interested in building your students’ capacity to critically read and engage with each others’ work? Are you interested in building classroom community and inc…[Read more]

<strong>PressForward Workshops
September 23 10am-12pm and 1pm-5pm
Room 9204, CUNY Graduate Center</strong>
<em>co-sponsored by the <a href="https://infolit.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">Library Association of CUNY</a>, the Graduate Center’s <a href="https://tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu">Teaching and Learning Center</a>, the <a h…[Read more]

Title: College Assistant Position
Department: Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program

Job Description: The GC's Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate program is seeking a College Assistant to provide administrative and technical support to the program’s coordinator, Prof. Steve Brier. The job involves working c…[Read more]

Join the Teaching and Learning Center and the Graduate Center’s Digital Fellows for a workshop on Social Writing, scheduled for Wednesday April 20, from 1-3 pm in room 9207 of the CUNY Graduate Center.

In this workshop we will discuss what it means to “write socially” in college classrooms. Practices of social writing are now more acces…[Read more]

The CUNY Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center invites applications for Teaching and Learning Center Fellowships for the 2016-17 academic year. TLC Fellows support CUNY Graduate Center students who are teaching across CUNY by holding open office hours, developing workshops and other public programs, producing TLC Guides for the C…[Read more]

Hi everyone–

I will be leading a one-day intensive workshop for the CUNY Learning Disability project, to be held at Guttman Community College on April 1st from 10am – 1pm.

The workshop will explore how concepts of Neurodiversity and Universal Design for Learning can help instructors across the disciplines re-think their approaches to…[Read more]

Working with ELL/ESL Students, March 16th 1-3pm
MARCH 10, 2016

Please join the Teaching and Learning Center for our “Working with English Language Learners /English as a Second Language Students Workshop,” scheduled for Wednesday, March 16th, from 1-3pm in room C205 of the CUNY Graduate Center. In this workshop we will explore how the div…[Read more]