Looking for information about Community 2.0 Spring/Fall 2013 Seminar? Visit the Descriptions and Dates pages for more information, or go to the application form. Applications are due by December 21st, 2012.
The LaGuardia Center for Teaching and Learning offers a wide range of programs to LaGuardia faculty and staff, seeking to build collaboration and reflective practice and support student success. For 2012-13, the Center will coordinate a diverse set of professional development seminars for LaGuardia's full-time and part-time faculty from Academic Affairs and Adult and Continuing Education, and has now begun offering programs for Student Affairs staff as well.
We are pleased to announce the list of seminar participants who applied to and were accepted into the currently available 2012-13 seminars. Thank you to President Mellow, Vice President Katopes, and Dean Arcario for their support of the Center, and to all faculty and staff leaders and participants.
The Art of Advising
How do we guide students’ educational growth and change? What roles can faculty play in advisement? How might faculty and staff collaborate? Working with first generation college students, how can we help them envision and build new identities as learners and emerging professionals?
LaGuardia’s strategic initiative to help more students graduate and succeed offers new opportunities to meet students’ needs through advising approaches. As the College seeks to enhance students’ experiences online, a consideration of digital tools for advising and transfer planning is warranted. To these ends, we are pleased to offer a seminar series that provides ways faculty and staff can go beyond the common perception of advising as "course selection" and examine factors critical to how the Council on the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education defines advising as "helping students develop meaningful educational plans."
2012-13 Participants
Taryn Anderson - Humanities
Rosalia Barnett - Business and Technology
Seurette Bazelais - Cooperative Education
Mimi Blaber - CUNY Language Immersion Program
Bojana Blagojevic - Social Science
Fay Butler - Student Affairs
Nartey Emmanuel - Humanities
Hector Fernandez -Business and Technology
Alcira Forero-Pena - Social Science
Andrea Francis - Business and Technology
Sean Galvin - Social Science and Liberty Partnership
Hicania Gomez - ASAP
Marianne Kaukianen - College Discovery
Lisa Leff - Business and Technology
Teresa Licari - Health Sciences
Sandy Mao - Student Affairs
Eman Mosharafa - Humanities
Cindy Pierce - Health Sciences
Suzanne Rosenberg - Health Sciences
Jianna Schroeder - Counseling
Shivani Subrayan - College Discovery
Paul West - Math, Engineering, and Computer Science
Leaders
Raj Bhika - Business and Technology
Clarence Chan - Health Sciences
Mercedes Del Rosario - Center for Teaching and Learning
Danielle Insalaco-Egan - Educational Planning and Testing
Bernetta Parson - Transfer Services
Strengthening Core Learning: Competencies, Integration and Student Success
How do we help LaGuardia students become expert learners? What do they need to know? What competencies are important? And how can we help students more effectively use their skills and knowledge as they move from one class to the next?
LaGuardia's Core Competencies – from Reading and Writing to Critical Thinking and Quantitative Literacy – have been identified by faculty as crucial to student academic success. These competencies have guided curriculum development in General Education and our majors, informed effective faculty seminars such as Writing in the Disciplines, and shaped our increasingly meaningful assessment process.
The Strengthening Core Learning seminar will help faculty integrate combinations of key competencies into their courses. It will build on the proven practices and design of LaGuardia's Writing in the Disciplines program to help faculty incorporate writing into their courses and adapt it to disciplinary needs. And at the same time, through readings, discussions, and activities focused on developing low-, middle- and high-stakes assignments, it will help faculty use the writing process to deepen learning and help students build and integrate other competencies.
2012-13 Participants
Rajendra Bhika - Business and Technology
Timothy Coogan - Social Science
Yasser Hassebo - Math, Engineering, and Computing
Mabel Gonzalez - Education and Language Acquisition
Jacqueline Jones - English
Demetrios Kapetanakos - English
Vincent Keeton - Social Science
Charles Keyes - Library
Michael Kiliviris - Humanities
Mahdi Majidi-Zolbanin - Math, Engineering, and Computing
Michele Philogene - Business and Technology
Marina Nechayeva - Math, Engineering, and Computing
Mariajose Romero - Education and Language Acquisition
Noam Scheindlin - English
Joni Schwartz - Humanities
David Styler - English
Shaunee Wallace - Humanities
Lukourgos Vasileiou - English
Svetoslav Zahariev - Math, Engineering, and Computing
Leaders
Yelana Baishanski - Math, Engineering, and Computing
Evelyn Burg - Communication Skills
John Chaffee - Humanities
Karen Miller - Social Science
Ros Orgel - Center for Teaching and Learning
Michelle Pacht - English
Justin Rogers-Cooper - English
Chris Schmidt - English
Phyllis Van Slyck - English
Cultivating and Expanding Hybrid/Online Teaching and Learning
As LaGuardia continues to expand its offering of hybrid/online classes, faculty are actively exploring the distinction between hybrid/online teaching and teaching in a traditional classroom. What logistical and pedagogical issues do we need to consider when transitioning from a face-to-face to a hybrid (partially online, partially face-to-face) or fully online environment? Which tools can help us engage students in their learning? How might ePortfolio fit into an online course? How will our assessment of student learning be different? These questions and more are explored in two interlocking seminar components:
- Introduction to Hybrid/Online Teaching and Learning
- Developing Advanced Practices and Mentoring Faculty in the Hybrid/Online Classroom
Participants are expected to teach a hybrid class in Spring, 2013. To provide faculty new to hybrid or online learning environments with an authentic experience of being learners in a hybrid environment, some sessions will take place online and others face to face.
2012-13 Participants: Advanced Practice
Richard Brown - Humanities
Deborah Harrell - Business and Technology
Nozomi Kato - Humanities
2012-13 Participants: Introduction
Minerva Ahumada - Humanities
Ian Alberts - Natural Science
Vera Albrecht - Humanities
Michelle Amos - Communication Skills
Prabha Betne - Math, Engineering, and Computing
Vanessa Bing - Social Science
Steven Cosares - Math, Engineering, and Computing
Marina Dedlovskaya - Math, Engineering, and Computing
Nancy DeLaTorre - Business and Technology
Nelson Diaz - Health Sciences
Erika Heppner - Humanities
Hana Masters - Education and Language Acquisition
Andrea Morgan-Eason - Health Sciences
Michelle Payne - Social Science
Stacy Perry - Business and Technology
Kimberly Ramirez - English
David Seiple - Humanities
Melinda Thomsen - CUNY Language Immersion Program
Gene Yao - Math, Engineering, and Computing
Leaders
Josephine Corso - Center for Teaching and Learning
Steve Ovadia - Library
Santo Trapani - Business and Technology
Faculty Scholars Publication Workshop
A year-long faculty development seminar designed to assist LaGuardia faculty in their scholarly writing projects publication, the Workshop seeks to help faculty scholars complete current academic writing projects and place them in external, peer-reviewed journals. LaGuardia faculty scholars from various disciplines—ranging from Accounting to Humanities, from Mathematics to English, from Library to Cooperative Education—came together to read, critique, and support one another’s writing within their respective fields. Participants have benefited from the support of the Carnegie Seminar, In Transit and the Faculty Workshop on Scholarship and Publication; they have revised and submitted work subsequently published in peer-reviewed journals.
2012-13 Participants
Leslie Aarons - Humanities
Rosalia Barnett - Business and Technology
Evelyn Burg - Communication Skills
Natalya Fazylova - Health Sciences
Stafford Gregoire - English
Maria Hart - Social Science
Noel Holton - English
Jacqueline Jones - English
William Kurzyna - Communication Skills
Christine Marks - English
Sreca Perunovic - Social Science
Luis Zambrano - Natural Science
Leaders
Nancy Berke - English
Michele Piso - Center for Teaching and Learning
Charity Scribner - English
Connected Learning
Connected Learning faculty learn about the pedagogical applications of ePortfolio by doing: the seminar invites faculty to construct their own professional ePortfolios for documenting and reflecting upon their ongoing course revision, modeling a classroom environment in which everyone shares with and learns from one another. Specific areas of emphasis include using ePortfolio to help students overcome fragmentation in their learning; actively and meaningfully connect with faculty, peers, and external audiences; integrate their diverse learning experiences, both inside and outside of the classroom; and, envision and plan their educational futures, including graduation and transfer.
2012-13 Participants
Ruhma Choudhury - Education and Language Acquisition
Ceasar Colon - Health Sciences
Abdou Drame- Math, Engineering, and Computing
Emma Holly - Cooperative Education
Dustin Hovda
Elizabeth Hurley
Nicole Lytle - Business and Technology
Yves Ngabonziza - Education and Language Acquisition
Lisa O'Donnell- Health Sciences
Eric Rock - Business and Technology
Stefanie Sertich - Humanities
Naomi Stubbs - English
Arlene Spinner - Health Sciences
Rebekah Johnson - Education and Language Acquisition
Leaders
Craig Kasprzak - Center for Teaching and Learning
Ellen Quish - Adult Learning Center
Kimberly Ramirez - English
Teaching the City: Rethinking Urban Studies At LaGuardia
LaGuardia was one of the first community colleges in the nation with an Urban Studies requirement for all students. What does that mean for us now? What does it mean in different disciplines and majors? How do we teach our Urban Studies courses? What makes them “urban?” What can we do, across the college, to help students connect knowledge of the city with disciplinary skills and understanding?
LaGuardia’s Urban Studies Program has designed this seminar to offer faculty college-wide an opportunity to consider these questions as they rethink and redesign their Urban Studies courses. In dialogue with other professors, and from a cross-disciplinary perspective, faculty will investigate ways to use New York City as a teaching and learning lab.
The Teaching the City Seminar offers an opportunity for faculty to come together to discuss the dynamics of experiential and reflective learning through both past teaching experiences and key texts in the field. We will share our different approaches to Urban Studies, as well as various ways of incorporating writing and field trips into our syllabi and assignments, and learn about research methods.
2012-13 Participants
Eric Cimino - Social Science
Monika Ekiert - Education and Language Acquisition
Nicole Lytle - Business and Technology
Claudia Moreno Pisan - English
Burcin Ogrenir - Education and Language Acquisition
Holly Porter-Morgan - Natural Sciences
Justin Rogers-Cooper - English
George Walters - Social Science
Leaders
Kristen Gallagher - English
Ros Orgel - Center for Teaching and Learning
Karen Miller - Social Science
ePortfolio Mini-Grants
Academic departments and programs college-wide are moving forward with two distinct but closely-connected efforts: integrating ePortfolio across their curricula, and deepening their work through the Periodic Program Review (PPR) process. To support programs’ work in these areas, the Center for Teaching and Learning is offering mini-grants of up to $7,500 for the 2012-13 academic year. These grants can be used to support program or department–led efforts, including faculty development and curriculum integration processes, addressing the following initiatives:
- Programmatic implementation of LaGuardia’s ePortfolio system, supporting integration across the program’s curriculum and instruction, maximizing benefits for students and faculty; and
- Advancing the program’s work related to the PPR process and alignment with the Program Assessment Grids, such as refining assignments and pedagogies that help faculty build students’ Core Competencies.
In both areas, programs and departments will actively address strategic college priorities such as overcoming fragmentation and helping students plan towards graduation and transfer.
2012-13 Participants: Advanced Practice
Mabel Gonzalez - Modern Languages and Literatures Program, Education and Language Acquisition
Edward Goodman - Accounting Program, Business and Technology
Yasser Hassebo - Environment and Earth Systems Eingineering Program, Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
Yves Ngabonziza - Engineering Program, Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
Preethi Radhakrishnan - Natural Science
James Richardson - New Media Technology Program, Humanities
Mariajose Romero - Education Program, Education and Language Acquisition
Leaders
Mercedes Del Rosario - Center for Teaching and Learning
Bret Eynon - Center for Teaching and Learning
Ros Orgel - Center for Teaching and Learning
Seminars Not Currently Accepting Applications
Carnegie Seminar on Teaching and Learning
(Please note: The next application period is Spring 2013)
The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is generally defined as the rigorous and systematic study of student learning, publicly shared, open to peer review and critique, and committed to collective knowledge-building. The Carnegie Seminar commits itself to these principles and to LaGuardia’s vision of an integrated culture of evidence-based teaching and learning. As the nation reflects on problems facing our schools, the values and missions of community colleges are more visible and pivotal than ever in the educational and intellectual life of our country. LaGuardia’s Carnegie Seminar provides faculty the opportunity to cultivate habits of pedagogical research that result in transformed and shared understanding of student experiences in our classrooms and beyond.
2011-13 Participants
Dennis Aguirre - Natural Science
Maria Entezari - Natural Science
Phillip Gimber - Health Sciences
Reem Jaafar - Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
Kathy Karsten - Health Sciences
Mangala Kothari - Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
Zahidur Rahman - Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
Ivan Osiris Rivera-Torres - Natural Sciences
Helen Rozelman - Health Sciences
Karim Sharif - Natural Science
Dong Wook Won - Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
Boris Zakharov - Natural Science
Leaders
Dionne Miller - Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
Michele Piso - Center for Teaching and Learning
Patricia Sokolski - Communication Skills
New Faculty Colloquium
The College recognizes its responsibility to support new teachers as they enter LaGuardia's teaching community and to share with them LaGuardia's tradition of caring and innovative teaching. LaGuardia is aware of a specific need to develop reflective teachers who are responsive to the vocational goals, the academic skills, and the diverse cultural, social and linguistic backgrounds of our students.
Through a carefully-structured program of professional development, the Colloquium focuses on issues of pedagogy and classroom practice, emphasizing sharing among instructors and student-centered classrooms. It introduces new faculty to a range of teaching issues and helps them as they develop effective strategies for LaGuardia classrooms.
The colloquium also provides new faculty with an overview of LaGuardia's key faculty development programs, such as learning communities, inquiry learning, teaching-with-technology initiatives, diversity projects, and the literacy-building-across-the-curricula programs.
2011-12 Participants
Nader Goubram - Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
Kamrul Huda - Health Sciences
Vincent Keeton - Social Science
Kwang Hyum Kim - Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
Elizabeth Krams - Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
Nicole Lytle - Business and Technology
Philippe Mercier - Natural Science
Burcin Ogrenir - Education and Language Acquisition
Holly Porter-Morgan - Natural Sciences
Jason Ramirez - Humanities
Catherine Reid - Health Sciences
Ian Alberts - Natural Science
Joan Schwartz - Humanities
Stefanie Sertich - Humanities
Shaunee Wallace - Humanities
Leaders
Sree Ande- Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science
Josephine Corso - Center for Teaching and Learning
Ana Maria Hernandez - Education and Language Acquisition