Event Archive

When/Where	Event
Friday Nov 15, 2019 8:30 am - 1:30 pm Faculty Dining Room, 8th floor Hunter West	When History Comes to Life: Experiential Pedagogy in the World Language and Social Sciences Classrooms Presenter(s): Multiple Presenters On Friday, November 15th, ACERT is helping to organize a pedagogy conference entitled “When History Comes to Life: Experiential Pedagogy in the World Language and Social Sciences Classrooms.” The conference will take place from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm at the 68th Street campus and will showcase strategies to introduce and weave historical topics into the world language and social sciences curriculum in grades 7-16 and beyond. It will include presentations by secondary educators and college instructors, keynote speeches by Clare Carroll (RSA) and Dennis Looney (MLA), and a live demonstration by historians Elizabeth and Thomas Cohen from York University, Toronto. [Details...]
Wednesday Nov 6, 2019 10:00 am - 11:30 am Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Developing and Improving Meaningful Program Learning Outcomes Presenter(s): Joel Bloom (Director of Assessment), Rob Cowan (Arts and Sciences), Kenneth Mclaughlin(Economics), and Jason Young (Psychology) When assessing student learning within academic programs, we often have a case of “garbage-in, garbage-out:” even if you assess the learning of students in your program with regard to your stated program learning outcomes (PLOs), you won’t learn anything useful if those PLOs don’t cover the subject matter you really care about. Instead, if PLOs are too vague, too multi-pronged, or deal with either trivia or topics not really valued by your faculty, your assessment will be pointless even if you do everything “right.” In this workshop, the panelists will discuss ways in which we can develop PLOs that will help your department or program gather meaningful information that will help improve your curriculum and pedagogy [Details...]
Thursday Oct 31, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Lightning Talks on Teaching and Learning Presenter(s): ACERT Steering Committee and Other Faculty and Staff Volunteers As introduced in James Lang’s 2016 book Small Teaching, simple, small changes to our classroom practices and course designs can make large, positive differences in student achievement and overall teaching effectiveness. After a brief summary of Lang’s book and his blog posts in The Chronicle of Higher Education, volunteers will present a variety of short talks about teaching and learning based on any brief topic relevant to teaching at Hunter. The talks will be short, lightning talks (3 minutes each; 3 PPT slide limit) which will allow presenters and participants plenty of time to discuss ideas that they can try in their courses today, tomorrow, or next semester. [Details...]
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Teaching for Civic Engagement Presenter(s): Kathleen Isaac (Dance); Kathleen Leary (The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts); Maria Hernandez Ojeda (Romance Languages) In this session, goals and challenges for teaching for civic engagement will be discussed as well the rewards of integrating civic engagement in classrooms. Participants will learn how to embed civic engagement into their classrooms by learning to obtain a New York City Public Library card Culture Pass, to access NYC’s rich cultural resources and inculcate civic responsibility through the ID NYC, and resources within Hunter’s campus. [Details...]
Thursday Oct 24, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Managing Social Difference in Courses Presenter(s): Shelley Eversley (Baruch); Shawn[ta] Smith-Cruz (CUNY Grad Center); James Cantres (AFPRL) Teaching and scholarship require professors to be informed, sensitive to, and readily engaged with various iterations of social difference. A keen awareness of the ways gender, sex, race, ethnicity, native language skill, among other characteristics influence both course subject matter and the students in the course is critical to progressive, thoughtful pedagogy. In addition to recognizing the way students' identities function in the classroom, we also seek methods to decolonize the very archives and bodies of knowledge we assign and encourage students to unpack. Through intersectional approaches to scholarship and pedagogy, we will discuss techniques that connect the lived experience of social difference with textual/curriculum based examples and assignments. [Details...]
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Emotion, affect, and community building in the CUNY classroom Presenter(s): Sarah Benesch (College of Staten Island); Asilia Franklin-Phipps (The Graduate Center); Monica Calabritto (Romance Languages) This seminar seeks to explore the relationship between cognition and emotion – knowing and feeling – understood as intertwined aspects of classroom life, considering both the emotional labor of the instructor and students’ engagement and attention. Our speakers work in several CUNY campuses and are interested in pedagogical approaches that explore the affective experience of learning. [Details...]
Thursday Oct 17, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Open vs. Free: A New Direction for OER at Hunter Presenter(s): Alexandra Gil (OER Librarian); Scott Lipkowitz (Hunter OER) In this Lunchtime Seminar, the Hunter OER Office will address this debate and share our experiences and recommendations for Hunter's OER initiative going forward. [Details...]
Wednesday Oct 16, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Senate Conference Room (1018 HE)	Workshop on Developing a Faculty-Led Study Abroad Program Presenter(s): Giovanna Cucciniello (Education Abroad) Have you ever thought about developing a study abroad program, even just a week-long program? If so, come to this workshop and learn the guidelines and procedures for submitting a proposal for a faculty-led study abroad program during summer or winter sessions. Developing a program is a lengthy process that involves early discussions with various stake-holders, as well as the timely completion of a Hunter College and CUNY trip proposal application form. This workshop is designed to provide faculty with all the required information, including deadlines, questions, and forms. [Details...]
Wednesday Oct 16, 2019 10:00 am - 11:30 am (8th Floor HW) The Faculty/Staff Lounge	Values-Based Assessment Presenter(s): Joel Bloom (Director of Assessment) With increasing demands on assessment for compliance, assessment professionals have often focused either on either quality issues of validity and reliability, or quantity issues – producing a report for our evidence inventory. Joel Bloom tries to move toward developing assessment models that prioritize substantive importance over either statistical validity or external compliance. It's so easy for assessment practitioners to get bogged down in compliance and data issues -- which programs submitted reports, and whether they did them "right" -- that we often lose sight of why we are here. This impacts our morale and makes it harder to make the case for why anyone should be doing the assessment. [Details...]
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Rap and Poetry in the Classroom: Creative Performance as Classroom Engagement Presenter(s): D’Weston Haywood (History); Alyson Greenfield (English); Stefania Porcelli (Romance Languages); Victoria Tomasulo and Marzena Rammairone (Hunter College Students); Jennifer Gillespie Rhodes (Italian, Columbia University) In this lunchtime seminar, presenters will describe and illustrate a variety of classroom activities they have used as alternatives to written papers and other typical research and scholarly work. First, D’Weston Haywood (History) will introduce the pedagogical rationale and some recent work on using sound and listening-based activities in classrooms. Next, Alyson Greenfield (English) will present her embodied teaching activities in which students perform spoken word poetry slams and movement exercises. Finally, Stefania Porcelli (Romance Languages) will present examples from Italian courses in which students wrote and performed their own original poetry. [Details...]
Thursday Oct 10, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Preparing Students for Jobs and Careers Presenter(s): Kathleen Isaac (Dance); Keith Okrosy (Career Development Services); Dermot Foley, (School of Education); Kenney Robinson (School of Education); Linh An (HCAP) In this seminar, faculty, staff, and administrators will discuss ways in which students can successfully navigate the job market through interviewing skills, effectively discussing their fields of study, creating a dynamic CV, developing and writing vision statements, and creating online ePortfolios. [Details...]
Thursday Oct 3, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Transfer Students at Hunter College: Who They Are and How We Support Them Presenter(s): Mark Bobrow (English); Maureen O'conor (Advising); Sarah Squatriglia (Advising); Maria-Helena Reis (Psychology); Kemile Jackson (Pre-Health) In this lunchtime seminar, Maureen O’conor and Sarah Squatriglia (Advising) will offer an overview of the backgrounds of transfer students at Hunter and describe programs and policies aimed at supporting transfer students once they arrive. Mark Bobrow (English) will describe efforts made in courses such as ENG 220 to help transfer students make the transition to the expectations of college level writing, and Maria-Helena Reis (Psychology) will reflect on transfer students, the challenges they face at Hunter, and discuss how we can improve our support of them. Finally, Kemile Jackson (Pre-Health) will talk about Pre-Health transfer initiatives and provide applicant profiles of successful transfer students. The seminar will conclude with an open discussion of transfer students at Hunter College. All participants are encouraged to bring questions and ideas to share. [Details...]
Thursday Sep 26, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Study abroad: Experiential education opportunities for Hunter students and faculty Presenter(s): Giovanna Cucciniello (Education Abroad); Laura Baecher (Curriculum and Teaching); Jessica Rothman (Anthropology) A primary goal of study abroad education programs entails providing experiential learning activities in diverse contexts far from the Hunter classroom. In this seminar, we will hear from faculty, students, and staff members about their experiences leading and participating in a variety of study abroad experiences. [Details...]
Wednesday Sep 25, 2019 10:00 am - 11:30 am Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Introduction to Assessment Presenter(s): Joel Bloom (Director of Assessment) This presentation is designed to provide an introduction to the fundamentals of student learning outcomes assessment for newcomers to that field. This presentation will cover a basic philosophy of values-centered assessment, including the reasons for assessment, its role in higher education, and how to use it to improve curriculum & pedagogy. Topics will include course-level, program-level, and institutional-level assessment, academic program review & accreditation, curriculum mapping, roles and methods of direct & indirect assessment, and the centrality of values and mission to all assessment work. [Details...]
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Showcase of Faculty Innovations in Teaching with Technology Presenter(s): Julie Van Peteghem (Romance Languages);Michaela Soyer (Sociology); Sissel McCarthy (Film and Media Studies); Yang Hu (Curriculum and Teaching); Amber Alliger (Psychology); Wendy Hayden (English); Elaine Gale (Special Education) In this seminar, Julie Van Peteghem (Romance Languages) will host a panel discussion with recent Faculty Innovations in Teaching with Technology (FITT) award winners. The panelists will give brief overviews of their projects and offer tips learned from their experiences trying out a new innovation in their classroom. There will be plenty of time for attendees to brainstorm new ideas about teaching with technology in their own contexts and to get advice from our local Hunter all-star teachers. [Details...]
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019 10:00 am - 11:30 am Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)	Assessment Breakfast "Meet & Greet" Presenter(s): Joel Bloom (Director of Assessment), Assessment Fellows, Assessment Coordinators Come to our first Assessment Breakfast of the year and “Meet & Greet” one another as we start a new semester. There will be a brief presentation from Assessment Director, Joel Bloom, followed by an informal and open sharing of thoughts, challenges, and ideas from Hunter faculty, including our 2019-2020 Assessment Fellows, Assessment Coordinators, and members of the Senate Committee on Assessment and Evaluation. This is an opportunity for all of us interested in Assessment at Hunter to come together informally, meet each other, and discuss our ideas and mutual interests. Come hungry and ready to have some fun! We’d love to hear your ideas for future breakfasts as well. [Details...]
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Online - register for details	DIY Video captioning for Busy Professors Presenter(s): Abigail Torres (ICIT) Are you creating video lectures or review sessions for your classes? Are they captioned and accessible? At this online workshop, we will show you how to modify the automatically generated captions provided by YouTube so that they are perfectly accurate. [Details...]
Wednesday Aug 14, 2019 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Online - register for details	Is Your Syllabus Accessible? Presenter(s): Abigail Torres (ICIT) Are you getting ready for the new semester? Is your syllabus accessible? If it is not accessible, then students who use screen-readers will not be able to read it. Join us for an online workshop on how to run the accessibility checker and make Word documents accessible. [Details...]
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019 10:00 am - 4:00 pm C105 HN	Course Creation Workshop Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung & Abigail Torres (ICIT) Calling all former participants of Module-making Camp and all professors getting ready to teach hybrid and online courses! Participate in a 3-day workshop to build components of a course beyond the weekly modules. Learn strategies to maintain a strong instructor presence online and craft your interaction, communication and assessment plan for the semester. Consider ways to streamline the navigation of your course and conduct a self-review using a course evaluation rubric. [Details...]
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019 10:00 am - 4:00 pm C105 HN	Course Creation Workshop Presenter(s): Shiao-Chuan Kung & Abigail Torres (ICIT) Calling all former participants of Module-making Camp and all professors getting ready to teach hybrid and online courses! Participate in a 3-day workshop to build components of a course beyond the weekly modules. Learn strategies to maintain a strong instructor presence online and craft your interaction, communication and assessment plan for the semester. Consider ways to streamline the navigation of your course and conduct a self-review using a course evaluation rubric. [Details...]