The Medgar Evers College Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence

Come to this Faculty-focused panel discussion tomorrow in Library Lab A @ 1:15 pm, as part of our Interweaving Ancestral Strands all-day symposium.

Panel 2D (LIB. A)
Title: Pedagogies of the Self: Embracing Cultural Legacies in our Classrooms
Chair: Brit Munro, 5th year international PhD candidate in the CUNY Graduate Center English program, and Adjunct Instructor at Lehman College and John Jay College. She is a current WAC fellow at Medgar Evers College.
Description: This panel will feature three CUNY adjunct instructors (and MEC Writing Fellows) across the disciplines thinking through the various techniques and approaches through which we work to embrace the cultural legacies we and our students bring into the classroom. So often these are erased, cast aside, or framed as 'wrong' within a classroom dominated by the norms of middle-class whiteness. By making those norms, and their hold on the classroom, visible, by elevating the voices and perspectives of those who do not embody these norms in our syllabi, by coming up with assignments that aim to have students trace the cultural and social context of their ideas by encouraging horizontal learning and a student-centered classroom, we aim to shake this up. In this session, we do not present ourselves as experts but instead aim to facilitate a discussion between the audience and presenters, sharing techniques and ideas and drawing on our teaching experiences as a resource.

Individual presenters
1. Presenter: Eric Barenboim, Ph.D. candidate, Latin American Iberian and Latino Cultures, CUNY G.C.
2. Presenter: Sham Habteselasse, Ph.D. candidate, Developmental Psychology, CUNY G.C.
3. Presenter: Shayan Mokhtarani, Ph.D. Candidate, Musical Semiotics, CUNY, G.C.

Jin us on Friday for a full day of Latine and Indigenous Heritage panels, activities, and music!

The C.F.P. for the CUNY-wide Latino Heritage Month Symposium, "The Latine Tapestry: Interweaving Our Ancestral Strands" is officially up. Please share widely with all your networks. This is a great opportunity to share any research, book publications, and activities/topics related to the Latine community, within CUNY and beyond. Please submit an application and proposal for individual or panel presentations using the form attached. The Symposium will be on 9/19 & 9/20/2024 in Brooklyn. Hope to see you all there.

Alicia Grant, Administrative Assistant, at The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence

Thanks to all participant and presenters of the 2016-17 MEC CTLE!

2017-18 Research, Publications & Grants Series

CTLE Workshops Fall '17

Prof. Joanna Sit presents a workshop on critical thinking.

Please join the CTLE for this year's first event. Dr. Umesh Nagarkatte will present findings from research conducted during his sabbatical:

"Crossing the Finish Line in STEM" 2:00-3:00, Innis Library Lab B2037

Ever considered opening up your own business? Join us on Wednesday afternoon, 10/5, for out First Latino Entrepreneurship event. Meet successful Latino Business owners and participate in a workshop provided by the NYC Small Business Admin. and our own Christian Washington!