Lunchtime Seminars Archive

When/Where Event
Wednesday
Apr 1, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
https://zoom.us/j/956279521
Lunchtime Seminars
Joys and challenges of teaching your children at home
Presenter(s): Jenny Tuten (Provost’s Office/literacy education), Nicora Placa (SOE, math education), Michi Soyer

Open discussion and Q and A with former elementary school teachers to support you as you add your children to your roster! [Details...]
Tuesday
Mar 31, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
https://zoom.us/j/956279521
Lunchtime Seminars
Working remotely and homeschooling: A primer
Presenter(s): Gina Riley (Special Education), Michi Soyer (Sociology)

Balancing academic work at home and homeschooling your kids, from professors who have successfully done both. Ideas and sample schedules will be given. [Details...]
Monday
Mar 30, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
https://zoom.us/j/956279521
Lunchtime Seminars
How do we address fieldwork during this time of distance learning?
Presenter(s): Laura Baecher (Dept of Curriculum & Teaching)

In this session we will review some of the core learning objectives of fieldwork assignments and how to capture many of them through "virtual fieldwork" tasks, with unexpected benefits. Bring your fieldwork assignment dilemmas and we will have time to brainstorm together! [Details...]
Friday
Mar 27, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
https://zoom.us/j/956279521
Lunchtime Seminars
How are we doing? Let’s check in!
Presenter(s): Julie Van Peteghem (Romance Languages), Sarah Byosiere (Psychology), Paul McPherron (English, ACERT)

Checking in after a week of online teaching: how are you doing? How are you and your students adjusting? Will you make changes going forward? [Details...]
Thursday
Mar 26, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
https://zoom.us/j/956279521
Lunchtime Seminars
What should be synchronous/what can be asynchronous?
Presenter(s): Laura Baecher (Dept of Curriculum & Teaching) and Shiao-Chuan Kung (Center for Online Learning), Julie Van Peteghem (Romance Languages)

As you re-envision your syllabus for the remainder of the semester to best promote student learning and engagement in a newly distant-learning environment, you might be choosing between which activities are best suited to synchronous vs. asynchronous learning. Join in a brief overview of types of tasks best suited to each and share ideas with your colleagues. [Details...]
Wednesday
Mar 25, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
https://zoom.us/j/956279521
Lunchtime Seminars
Teaching large classes online
Presenter(s): Amber Alliger (Psychology), Michi Soyer (Sociology)

Tools and tips for holding large classes online including offering lectures, giving quizzes, and encouraging participation. [Details...]
Tuesday
Mar 24, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
https://zoom.us/j/956279521
Lunchtime Seminars
Best Practices for Teaching Online
Presenter(s): Gina Riley (Special Education), Shiao-Chuan Kung (ACERT, Center for Online Learning)

In this seminar, we will review online teaching “best practices”, as well as how to create a multisensory online classroom. [Details...]
Monday
Mar 23, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
https://zoom.us/j/956279521
Lunchtime Seminars
How are we doing? What do we need?
Presenter(s): Paul McPherron (English, ACERT), Shiao-Chuan Kung (Center for Online Learning), Jenny Tuten (Provost Office)

Open discussion of how the transition to online teaching has gone so far. What’s worked, what hasn’t, and what more support do we need? [Details...]
Thursday
Mar 12, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)
Lunchtime Seminars
(CANCELED) Finishing Strong: Activities for the Last Day of Class
Presenter(s): ACERT Steering Committee and Other Faculty and Staff Volunteers

Event Canceled, March 12 Lunchtime Seminar!!! Lunchtime Seminar: Finishing Strong: Activities for the Last Day of Class's Sorry for the inconvenience, We hope to see you all at Next Semester's Lunchtime Seminar!! :) [Details...]
Tuesday
Mar 10, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)
Lunchtime Seminars
Contemplative Pedagogy: Transformative Practices in Higher Education
Presenter(s): Kenny Hirschmann (Frankfort Center, Education); Kathleen Isaac (Dance)

This workshop based on the book, Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning, will introduce participants from diverse areas of teaching practice to contemplative techniques, such as meditation, yoga, deep listening, mindfulness, reflective reading and writing and inclusion of site visits and field trips. [Details...]
Thursday
Mar 5, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)
Lunchtime Seminars
Course Evaluations: Getting Students to Respond in Qualitative Ways
Presenter(s): Sarah Johnson (Libraries); Olivia C. Padeluka (Psych); James Cantres (AFPRL)

In this lunchtime seminar we will address ways to mid-semester evaluations and encourage student responses during our courses and detail methods of implementing changes both during the term and for future semesters.Olivia Padeluka (Psychology) and Sarah Johnson (Hunter College Libraries) will provide insights on innovative strategies for utilizing student perspectives for current and future students. [Details...]
Tuesday
Mar 3, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)
Lunchtime Seminars
Making the Most of Peer Teaching Observations
Presenter(s): Lisa Marie Anderson (German); Yang Hu (School of Ed); Tatyana Khodorovskiy (Math & Stats); Leila Gastil (Psychology); Michaela Soyer (Sociology)

In this roundtable discussion we’ll examine the practice from the perspective of observers and observees. What makes for a “good” peer observation? How can we ensure meaningful follow-up? Our speakers will share insights from different disciplines and career stages. We’ll also discuss the challenges of observation in hybrid and online courses, something treated in the new contract. [Details...]
Thursday
Feb 27, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)
Lunchtime Seminars
What Makes a Writing Intensive Course
Presenter(s): Frida Kleiman and Nancy Greenbaum (Chemistry); Nora Carr (Queens College) and Stefania Porcelli (Romance Language), Dennis Paoli and Trudith Smoke (English)

There will be three presentations by a panel of six speakers: Frida Kleiman and Nancy Greenbaum teaching writing in chemistry classes; Dennis Paoli and Trudith Smoke coordinated the WAC program for many years;  Nora Carr and Stefania Porcelli are working on a handbook for CUNY graduate teaching fellows and will seek feedback from people attending the seminar.  [Details...]
Tuesday
Feb 25, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)
Lunchtime Seminars
GPS: Teaching Activities that Promote G (Growth Mindset), P (Purpose), and S (Social Belonging)
Presenter(s): Kelle Cruz (Physics); Jack Kenigsberg (Writing Center); Paul McPherron (English)

In this lunchtime symposium, three Hunter faculty will present activities and research they learned from attending a recent CUNY symposium on growth mindset and how they have implemented these activities in their own classrooms and centers. [Details...]
Thursday
Feb 20, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Hemmerdinger Overflow seating area (Library, HE 705)
Lunchtime Seminars
Library and Faculty Collaborations
Presenter(s): Margaret Bausman (Libraries), Iris Finkel (Libraries), Maria Hernandez-Ojeda (Romance Languages), Frida Kleiman (Chemistry), Cherry Montejo (Libraries), Jennifer Newman (Libraries), John Pell (Libraries)

ROOM CHANGE!!! Hemmerdinger Overflow seating area (Library, HE 705) This seminar will showcase a wide range of existing collaborations between instructors and librarians across the schools and the libraries, including classroom and library instruction, work with(in) the archives, co-teaching, and joint publications. Instructors and librarians will also share how they initiated and manage their collaborative projects, and how they address the logistical and other challenges of instruction with/in the libraries. [Details...]
Tuesday
Feb 18, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)
Lunchtime Seminars
Narrating Your Research and Teaching Origins...And Futures
Presenter(s): Stephanie Margolin (Library); Stefania Porcelli (Romance Languages); Ashley Jackson (Music); Kelly Nims (English)

This Lunchtime Seminar explores different ways of telling that story to others. Professors from English, Music, Library Studies, and Romance Languages will provide examples of how they narrate their stories: arriving at one’s research or pedagogical strategies, balancing research and teaching, integrating the two, launching the next stage of one’s work, and then conveying these stories in different ways from an “elevator pitch” to developing an online profile. [Details...]
Thursday
Feb 13, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)
Lunchtime Seminars
What Makes an Honors Course
Presenter(s): Richard Belsky (History); Yujia Xu (Chemistry); Rob Cowan (Arts and Sciences)

This seminar will discuss what constitutes an honors course at Hunter College. Panelists will discuss the criteria for honors courses and their experiences teaching honors courses: what they teach as honors, how it fits the description of honors, and how that differs from non-honors courses. [Details...]
Tuesday
Feb 11, 2020
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)
Lunchtime Seminars
Starting Strong: Activities For The First Day of Class
Presenter(s): Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere (Psychology); Christina Katopodis (English); Shiao-Chuan Kung (Online Learning Center); Claudia Orenstein (Theatre)

For this lunchtime seminar, several Hunter instructors will talk about activities they use on the first day of class, including: ice-breaker activities using the software Padlet, a video tour of a course’s OER textbook, a revised syllabus using FAQs as prompts, and an open-syllabus discussion in which students pick some of the class content. Come hear how your colleagues kick off the semester, and bring your own ideas to share how you help your students get to know your courses, get to know you, and get to know each other. [Details...]
Thursday
Oct 31, 2019
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)
Lunchtime Seminars
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)
Lunchtime Seminars
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...]
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