CUNY Academic Commons

I enjoyed this unique way of sharing teacher-candidate experiences. Rolla’s use of custom-made videos using Scratch reflects the challenges I have seen with my teacher candidates. Often they search for a video related to their topic/skill and end up with a tangential video or book rather than one directly aligned. Understanding technology would…[Read more]

When reading through the CS4All Executive Summary, I found the exploration of why there were inequities in implementing more CS curriculum to be quite interesting. Though the initial correlation was drawn between student demographics and level of CS participation and access, the report unpacked this further discussing the need level of students,…[Read more]

While thinking through my personal design process and the design process I support my ECSE SPED teacher candidates in engaging in, I reflected on the mindsets discusses in the Design Thinking for Educators handbook.

The general process of problem solving seems obvious to many teacher candidates. However, the mindset and mental approach makes all…[Read more]

My remixed activity starts with the mindset deck and builds to connecting mindsets (internal beliefs) with actions (external expression). The teacher candidates then consider how this would transfer to the mindsets and actions of their early childhood learners. The conversation would be scaffolded to support understanding of behavior as…[Read more]

Jennifer Gillespie  – Hunter College and City College – Supervisor and Adjunct Lecturer for Early Childhood Special Education

Lucky numbers: 14, 16, 28, 41, 46

I chose these cards with my area of focus in mind(early childhood special education). My teacher candidates have brought up questions in the past in regards to passive screen time…[Read more]

Happy summer everyone!

My name is Jennifer Gillespie and I work at Hunter College and City College as a professor and supervisor for Early Childhood Education and Special Education. Teaching remotely in 2020/2021 was a bit of a crash course in digital teaching tools and I’m looking forward to diving deeper this summer. I’m hoping to use these…[Read more]