Category: Collaboration

  • Coaching and Consulting Movie Blog

    Coaching and consulting are effective leadership methods that help guide individuals and organizations along their journey to attaining desired results. The movies, The Legend of Bagger Vance and Twelve Angry Men, provide deep insight into the coaching and consulting process. The Legend of Bagger Vance is a movie that depicts the role of a coach, […]

  • Consent-Based Pedagogy and “Low-Stakes” Assignments

    Consent-Based Pedagogy and “Low-Stakes” Assignments

    This piece is cross-posted on the Designing for All (DfA) project page (and the CUNY Humanities Alliance site): DfA is a project I’m co-coordinating with the Center for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College. We are working with students, staff, and faculty from across disciplines to create a more accessible educational experience at LaGuardia, countering unequal power […]

  • Teaching Through Publishing: Scholarly Journal Article as Collaborative Final Project (a How To Guide)

    Teaching Through Publishing: Scholarly Journal Article as Collaborative Final Project (a How To Guide)

    On August 30, 2017, three students from my Queens College composition course published an article in the scholarly, peer-reviewed journal Hybrid Pedagogy. Their article, “The Ultimate Life Experience: Preparing Students for the World Beyond the Classroom” argues that colleges ought to prepare students for a great future, and offers concrete suggestions for how teachers, administrators, […]

  • Queens College Undergraduates Publish Article in Hybrid Pedagogy

    Queens College Undergraduates Publish Article in Hybrid Pedagogy

    On August 30, 2017, Hybrid Pedagogy, one of the leading scholarly, peer-reviewed academic journals on education, published an article co-authored by three undergraduate students at Queens College: Sumedha Madan, Fina Ferrara, and Gavriel Lev. Their article, “The Ultimate Life Experience: Preparing Students for the World Beyond the Classroom” argues that colleges ought to prepare students […]

  • Group-based Scavenger Hunt Activity: A Reflection

    Group-based Scavenger Hunt Activity: A Reflection

    August 9th was an exciting day for my Futures Initiative team!  This was the day that after a competitive application process, we would finally meet our new (and some recurring) twenty-five undergraduate leadership fellows! On August 9th, we invited these fellows to a introductory workshop at The Graduate Center, CUNY. For this day, we had an […]

  • Community Guidelines: Fostering Inclusive Discussions of Difference

    Community Guidelines: Fostering Inclusive Discussions of Difference

    In this blog, I describe how my class co-authored a set of community guidelines in order to create a supportive environment for discussing issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This past semester, I had the deep pleasure of teaching an English course on “The Arts of Dissent” at Queens College, where I shared some […]

  • Final Reflection- Learning to Learn

    Hi everyone! What an amazing journey 🙂  I have spent the past weeks evaluating how I learn and how I can better support others through the process.  Attached are my final reflections from this educational adventure.  Thank you all for joining me! – Sarah

  • Adult Learning: Redefining the Golden Ring

       

  • Time to Twine!

    You can view our final project by clicking this link!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xopzN03-1Jk  

  • Adult Learning Theories: A Tale of Two Courses

    Evidence of Adult Learning Theories via Shared Virtual Learning Experience  Written by: Theresa Leahy, Sherisse Peterson and Candice Avila      Introduction     For this team project, we were tasked with attending and evaluating two online training programs with the purpose of furthering our understanding of adult learning theories. In this essay we will discuss […]