Mar 14 | Transferrable Skills Workshop

Transfer Your Skills! A Workshop with Ann Kirschner Wednesday, March 14, 2018 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CUNY Graduate Center, room 9206 Through your graduate career, you have honed knowledge and skills that employers want. Come to this seminar to identify those assets and to name them with the language of industry, government, and nonprofits. CUNY… Read More

Mar 6 | TLC Workshop: Close Looking

Tuesday, March 6 | 4:30-6:30pm | Room 7209 What can the pedagogy of “close looking” offer to classes both inside and outside of the humanities? Join the TLC to explore visual pedagogy and visual thinking strategies in a workshop on how CUNY instructors can use close looking across the disciplines. Though close looking strategies originated… Read More

Mar 12 | TLC Panel: Resisting the Canon

March 12th, 2018 6pm-8pm (originally scheduled for March 7th) Room 9205 | Graduate Center RSVP On Monday March 12th, the Teaching and Learning Center will host a panel discussion on strategies doctoral student instructors use to resist the canon in their teaching practices. We will engage in dialogue and offer resources for educators interested in… Read More

Feb 27 | TLC Workshop on Creativity in the Classroom

Tuesday, February 27 | 4:30-6:30pm | Room 9205 Are you looking for ways to get students more engaged with challenging course material and assignments? Students come into the classroom with a wide range of creative skills that you can help them apply to materials in your course. Offering students creative options (both in-person and digital)… Read More

Feb 28 | Effective Networking: A Workshop with Ann Kirschner

Wednesday, 02/28/2018 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Graduate Center, Room C197 You’ve heard about networking. It helps ensure that your job materials land on the right desk, improves your chances of getting interviews, and opens you up to new opportunities and experiences. But how do you network efficiently? What strategies effect change? Join Ann Kirschner, CUNY… Read More

Mar 1 | Professionalizing Your Online Identity

The Futures Initiative is pleased to invite you to our first Thursday Dialogue of the spring semester: “Professionalizing Your Online Identity,” a conversation led by FI Fellow and Doctoral Candidate in English, Christina Katopodis. The event will be held on March 1 at the Graduate Center, CUNY in Room 9204. Join us to talk about creating… Read More

Feb 22 | TLC Workshop: Museum Pedagogy in the Classroom

Thursday, February 22 6:30-8:30 PM Room 9205 Over the past generation, museums have undergone an enormous transition. No longer simply repositories of artifacts and authority, they are now, as the Smithsonian’s Stephen E. Weil once described, “a place for somebody.” As museums have moved toward a visitor-centered approach, their education departments have professionalized and developed… Read More

Feb 16 | TLC Community Event to Support International Student Instructors

Community Event to Support International Student Instructors Friday, February 16, 1-3pm Last Fall, the Teaching and Learning Center conducted a survey of international students at the Graduate Center which revealed that three-quarters feel that the relationship between instructors and students at CUNY is markedly different than in their home country. Nearly two-thirds reported feeling that instructional… Read More

Feb 6 | TLC Workshop – Teaching with the CUNY Academic Commons and WordPress

Join staff from the Teaching and Learning Center on Tuesday 2/6 from 6:30-8:30 pm in Room 9207 for a workshop on how to teach with WordPress. WordPress is a web-based publishing platform that, when used in college courses, can facilitate a variety of writing and multi-modal assignments and can help faculty harness the power of networks in… Read More