Week One: Hilarie: In the very first moments of our first session, I felt a shift in energy as soon as people started coming into the room. It was lower, […]
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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 […]
Salutations from Roots at Hunter!
Today our Greek and Latin Roots class learned the Latin word salus, salutis meaning “health, well-being, greeting” from where English gets the word salutations! So SALVETE OMNES (hello everyone!)
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 […]
Is Educational Freedom and Choice Always Free? Reflections on Our Conversation with Dean John Mogulescu
By Cathy Davidson on April 16, 2015 in ASAP, Class Recap, CUNY Start, Guttman College, John Mogulescu, Reflection
(Another version was posted to our Futures Initiative group on hastac.org) This week our “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” course had the honor of hosting Dean John Mogulescu, Founding […]
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 and Time-Keeping
This post was inspired in part by Natalie Oshukany’s excellent blog post from last week (On Watching the Clock: Student-Centered Review Session) which begins: “Despite my best efforts, I ran […]
Why Graduate Training Must Change If We Want To Reverse Income Inequality #FuturesEd
Yesterday, in “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education,” a student-led graduate course for Graduate Center students currently teaching in the CUNY system, we had a unit on “Life Circumstances and […]
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 […]
ACRL – Frameworks
When considering student-centered learning, and creating my statement of teaching philosophy, it makes sense to discuss the ACRL frameworks which is a hugely debated pedagogical framework which grows out of […]
