Event Archive

When/Where	Event
Wednesday Oct 28, 2015 10:00 am - 11:30 am 1203 HE	Refine your assignments to explore student learning Presenter(s): Meredith Reitman (Office of Assessment and ACERT) Come learn how to design assignments that best allow you to see what your students know. [Details...]
Tuesday Oct 27, 2015 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Teaching "interprofessionality" by mastering teamwork and communication Presenter(s): Carmen Maraono (School of Social Work), Shawn McGinniss, (Schoolof Nursing), and Alexandra Plavskin(School of Nursing) Mastering teamwork and communication improves collaboration across disciplines. This lunchtime seminar brings together experts in nursing, social work, and instructional design to discuss how technology/multi-media can achieve team work and collaboration. [Details...]
Thursday Oct 22, 2015 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Building a bridge to student success Presenter(s): Sunday Coward, Director, Percy E. Sutton SEEK Program; Mason Brown (Libraries), Stephanie Margolin (Libraries) and Sarah Ward (Libraries) The SEEK Summer Bridge program prepares incoming freshman for their academic careers. This summer, this program also included a library component, in which comic books were used to introduce students to the process of asking college-level questions. [Details...]
Tuesday Oct 20, 2015 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Students with disabilities will change your approach to teaching… for the better! Presenter(s): Adina Mulliken & John Pell (Social Work and Public Health Library), Sudi Shayesteh (Office of AccessABILITY), Michael Siller (Psychology) Hunter faculty and student support staff will share a small number concrete, easy-to-implement strategies that faculty can use to engage the broadest range of students in learning. [Details...]
Thursday Oct 15, 2015 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Introducing the Futures Initiative Presenter(s): Ryan Donovan (Theater), Irene Morrison-Moncure (Classics) Katina Rodgers (CUNY GC) Overview of the GC’s Futures Initiative, a project devoted to improving pedagogy in higher education, from its deputy director and two highly involved graduate students. [Details...]
Wednesday Oct 14, 2015 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Register for location	Teaching online and hybrid classes Presenter(s): Kristen L. Hodnett (Special Education) and Nancy Guerrero (ICIT) In this semester-long series of four seminars, faculty with some experience teaching online and hybrid classes will share their challenges and effective practices. [Details...]
Wednesday Oct 14, 2015 10:00 am - 11:30 am 1203 HE	Love your learning outcomes Presenter(s): Meredith Reitman (Office of Assessment and ACERT) Come discover how learning outcomes can be truly useful tools for designing and clarifying courses and curricula, and gauging student learning beyond grades. [Details...]
Tuesday Oct 13, 2015 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Partners wanted! Getting funded with the Office of Research Administration Presenter(s): Elizabeth Da Silva Cardoso (Educational Foundations), Carolynn Julien (Office of Research Administration), Robert Buckley (Office of Research Administration) Hear from someone who's been through it! Learn how to partner with the Office of Research Administration to successfully get funding for your project. [Details...]
Thursday Oct 8, 2015 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Embedding a librarian in your class Presenter(s): Jeff Allred (English), Iris Finkel (Library) Liz Geltman (Social Work), Donna Nikitas (Nursing), John Pell (Library), Beth Posner (CUNY GC Library) This session will focus different approaches to "embedding" a librarian in a course, focusing on the experiences of three faculty/librarian pairs. [Details...]
Wednesday Oct 7, 2015 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Register for location	Publishing research on your pedagogy Presenter(s): Laura Baecher (Curriculum and Teaching) and Shiao-Chuan Kung (TTLG) A unique opportunity to be coached and to work through the design and drafting of a research manuscript on instructional practices and innovations you’ve experimented with in course teaching. We will begin in October and meet six times, once per month from October – April. We will engage in peer-review and target a specific journal for our piece in progress. [Details...]
Tuesday Oct 6, 2015 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	The scholarship of teaching and learning Presenter(s): Jochen Albrecht (Geography), Laura Baecher (Curriculum and Teaching), Mark Hauber (Provost's Office), Adam McMahon (Political Science), Lacey Peters (Curriculum and Teaching) Research on teaching can be turned into publications. In this session, a panel of faculty will share their experience/journey/learning about doing research on their pedagogy. [Details...]
Thursday Oct 1, 2015 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Using mobile technologies to make student thinking visible Presenter(s): Manashi Chatterjee (Chemistry) and Kathleen Isaac (Curriculum and Teaching) We’ll discuss and experience classroom practices that engage students in substantive thinking and problem solving. These practices include the use of mobile technologies to make these often-invisible processes visible to other students and the instructor, while at the same time deepening student understanding. [Details...]
Wednesday Sep 30, 2015 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm FDA Lounge	Wine and cheese reception Join us for a wine and cheese reception in the FDA lounge on the 8th floor of Hunter West following the Senate meeting on September 29. Co-sponsored by ACERT, the Hunter Senate and the Faculty Delegate Assembly. [Details...]
Wednesday Sep 30, 2015 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm E016, Brookdale Campus	Blackboard tools that promote collaborative learning Presenter(s): Donna Nickitas, Nancy Guerrero, Shiao-Chuan Kung Peer learning can be an effective teaching method in a [...] [Details...]
Wednesday Sep 30, 2015 10:00 am - 11:30 am 1203 HE	Easy assessment makeover Presenter(s): Meredith Reitman (Office of Assessment and ACERT) Walk through an "easy assessment makeover" of two of Meredith's courses and try it out for yourself. [Details...]
Tuesday Sep 29, 2015 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Week zero and ice-breakers: Helping students get to know the course, the professor and each other Presenter(s): Erica Chutuape (Asian-American Studies) Sandi Clarkson (Math & Statistics) Kristen Hodnett (Special Education) Hunter professors talk about how they use VoiceThread, discussion boards and wikis for ice-breaking activities. [Details...]
Thursday Sep 24, 2015 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 2nd Floor Lounge, Silberman	Cornerstones for teaching and research: Stories from the front lines A collaborative faculty workshop coordinated by the Hunter College Libraries, the Office of Research Administration, ACERT, and the Provost’s Office. We will bring participants together for discussions with the college-wide resources that are available to them. [Details...]
Thursday Sep 17, 2015 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm 1203 HE	Cornerstones for teaching and research: Stories from the front lines A collaborative faculty workshop coordinated by the Hunter College Libraries, the Office of Research Administration, ACERT, and the Provost’s Office. We will bring participants together for discussions with the college-wide resources that are available to them. [Details...]
Wednesday Sep 16, 2015 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Gebbie Room, Brookdale	Cornerstones for teaching and research: Stories from the front lines A collaborative faculty workshop coordinated by the Hunter College Libraries, the Office of Research Administration, ACERT, and the Provost’s Office. We will bring participants together for discussions with the college-wide resources that are available to them. [Details...]
Wednesday Aug 12, 2015 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm 1018 HE	Cookies and chat These informal biweekly sessions will give FITT 2015 award winners an opportunity to share their work in progress and get feedback from colleagues, educational technologists, and faculty mentors. [Details...]