This semester the inaugural “Mapping the Futures” course co-taught by Professors Cathy Davidson and William Kelly, linked our undergraduate courses throughout CUNY to our pedagogical graduate class. This course epitomized […]
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Mapping the Futures of Higher Education 2015-05-15 22:44:56
English 92 E.M. Gabay In class essay Spring 2015 Option A: In Yudit Yago-Jung’s narrative “Growing Up in Germany: After the War, After Hitler, ‘Afterward’” she discusses […]
Mapping the Future Scholars of Freshman Composition II @ Kingsborough College
Kingsborough offers an interdisciplinary freshman course designed to introduce incoming college students to general university studies. Freshman Composition at Kingsborough is a two part sequential course. In our second level […]
Sentence Map Freshman Comp KBCC 2015
Representing Kingsborough Freshman Composition II Best of Spring 2015 (PS Katina, you rock! Thank you!)
Syllabus–Experimental Pedagogy: Process, Growth, Mindfulness towards Autonomy (applicable for all levels)– this course is not currently offered
Course: Process, Growth, Mindfulness to Autonomy (applicable for all levels) Instructor: Esther Michelle Gabay Email: EMGabayKCC@gmail.com or Esther.Gabay@kbcc.cuny.edu Office hours: Mon 1:30-3:00 & Thurs 1:30-3:00 in C327 Mailbox location: C309 […]
Speed Date Debate: A Student Centered Movement in the Classroom
On Tuesday I tried something very new with my Freshman Comp classes based on one of Ryan Donovan, Hilarie Ashton and Richard Lissemore’s creative movement and embodiment activities. On Monday, […]
Persistence and Success: What I’d love to see more of
As our Mappings class has been focusing on “Professors & Persistence,” I’ve found myself hyper alert to the academic and life obstacles orbiting around our students and interfering with their […]
Happy I Had a Rubric
When our Mapping the Futures class focused on Assessment, group one asked us to implement or create a rubric for our classes. My initial reaction was not positive–I’ve used rubrics […]
Teaching Philosophy
In the spring of 2000, when I officially enrolled in Kingsborough at eighteen years old, I was told to go to the PAC building to take a placement exam. While […]
Students Take the Lead: Quick Prompt for Research
By MichelleG on March 15, 2015 in crowdsourcing, interactivity, modeling, research, student-centered pedagogy
I have not always been a student-centered believer. It took a few years before I could really understand how to implement this approach into my classroom and grasp the unlimited […]
