Annual Professional Development Day
Annual Professional Development Day- The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Hostos Community College organizes the Annual Professional Development Day, bringing together faculty, staff, and students for meaningful discussions on teaching and learning. This event fosters dialogue that embraces diverse perspectives within the academic community and explores strategies for promoting inclusion, accessibility, collegiality, and community within the college.
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Touchstone Authors Panel
Moderators: Stacey Cooper, Assistant Professor, Behavioral & Social Sciences Panelists: Jaqueline DiSanto, Professor, Education Juan Soto Franco, Adjunct Lecturer, English Jason Buchanan, Assistant Professor, English Nicole Wallenbrock, Professor, Humanities Join us for an enlightening session at the Touchstone Authors Panel, where writers and editors share their insights and experiences. Engage in thought-provoking discussions about their works, creative processes, and the [...]
ACUE Experiences Panel
Moderators: Louis Bury, Associate Professor, English Andrea Fabrizio, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Panelists: Anders Stachelek, Director of Assessment and Associate Professor of Mathematics Amina Tajbhai, Lecturer, English Join us for the ACUE Experiences Panel, where faculty members share their insights and experiences from participating in the ACUE program. Learn about the impact of ACUE on teaching practices, student [...]
Manifold in the Classroom: Digital Publishing and Social Annotations
Facilitators: Rhonda Johnson, Head of Access Services, Library Krystyna Michael, Assistant Professor, English Explore the possibilities of teaching with open access materials and discover the innovative ways Manifold, a digital publishing platform developed as a collaboration between the Graduate Center, University of Minnesota Press, and Cast Iron Coding, can be used in your classroom. Learn how this platform supports the [...]
Building a Better Curriculum: a JDEI PD
Facilitator: Amina Tajbhai, Lecturer, English In this session, discover what your colleagues are doing to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion in their departments. Preview the new JDEI PD, sponsored by the Title V grant, and learn about the next steps we're taking in order to create a more just Hostos. Program + Touchstone Authors Panel Spa Day, Spa Day 2024 [...]
Beautiful Ideas: Brainstorming New Projects & Collaborations
Facilitators: Sofia Oviedo, Research Programs Director, Office of the President Yoel Rodríguez, Professor, Natural Sciences In this session, participants will brainstorm and develop innovative project and research ideas. This session fosters creativity and collaboration, with themed breakout discussions based on participant interests, opportunities to network, and guidance on aligning ideas with grant proposal requirements for the IDEAS, ADELANTE and other [...]
Student Panel: Are We Satisfying our Student Needs?
Moderators: Silvia Reyes, Director of SP & Student Engagement & CLIP, OAA Panelists: Iana Ramanova, Business Management, Hostos Heisen Cabrera, Accounting, Hostos Keyla Rodriguez, Digital Design, Hostos Maria Fernanda, Liberal Arts, Hostos Join us for a thought-provoking session where students share their perspectives on how well their needs are being met. This panel will explore various aspects of student life, [...]
A Conversation About “Welcomeness”
Presenter: Linda Miles, Assistant Professor, Library Join us as we explore the concept of “welcomeness” and its critical role in establishing a sense of belonging within the Hostos community. We will collaborate to define welcomeness from several angles. Then, through thought-provoking conversations, we will collectively explore the essence of welcomeness, its significance, and practical strategies to help ensure an inclusive [...]
Harmony Within: Nurturing Connection through Yoga and Meditation
Presenters: J.C. Williams, Adjunct Lecturer, Behavioral & Social Sciences, RYT-200 Iber Polma, Coordinator of Student Support, Edtech Explore fun and practical yoga techniques to experience a greater sense of connection, with ourselves and with each other. We will open our senses, relax the mind, and use our breath to feel that interconnection. Join us as we harness the transforming potential [...]
Unleash the Learning Pulse: Catalyzing Student Growth through Assessment
Presenters: Anders Jasson Stachelek, Associate Professor, Mathematics Discover innovative, and yet simple approaches to assessment to unraveling the learning pulse. We will explore strategies to foster student progress, enhance retention rates, and create an inclusive and supportive learning environment by asking three foundational questions: 1) What do we want students to learn? 2) How do we know if they learned [...]
Expressions of Art: Unleashing Creativity to Foster Inclusion, Persistence, and Belonging
Moderators: Cynthia Jones, Lecturer, English, CTL Co-Director Carlos Guevara, CTL Co-Director & EdTech Director Join us for a dynamic and interactive series of hands-on breakout sessions that utilize art as a powerful medium to illustrate complex concepts such as belonging, inclusion, welcomeness, and persistence. Through poems, mask-making, songwriting, and acting, discover creative ways to express and embody these transformative principles, [...]
Creativity & Play for Community-Building in the Classroom – Share Back
Presenters: Linda Miles, Assistant Professor, Library Lauren Wolf, Assistant Professor, Mathematics In this session, we will explore strategies for incorporating creativity and play to help build community in our courses and at Hostos. We will reflect on the preceding creativity exercises, and consider practical ways to use low-stakes creativity and play activities to help foster an inclusive and supportive learning [...]
Student Scenarios: Reimagining a New Normal from the Student Lens
It is crucial that educational institutions deliberately include and integrate student feedback within continuous improvement processes. Identifying the best ways to capture student perspectives, challenges, and needs that require thinking outside the box and trying different approaches. This activity brings the voices of three Hostos students and presents different scenarios that they have had or are facing in their academic [...]
Potential Approaches to Cross-Disciplinary Experiential Learning at Hostos
Presenters: Angela Dunne, Humanities Alliance Graduate Fellow Jason Castillo, Humanities Alliance Graduate FellowMehrnaz Moghaddam, Humanities Alliance Graduate Fellow In this short interactive workshop, we will explore and share ways in which we implement Experiential Learning and interdisciplinary approaches at Hostos. This exercise will allow faculty and staff to learn about each other’s methods/practices and alternative Experiential Learning teaching techniques, and identify [...]
Dissecting Evidence of Learning by Uncovering the Meaning of the What Questions in our Courses
Presenters: Jacqueline Disanto, Professor, EducationAntonios Varelas, Professor, Behavioral & Social SciencesNelson Nuñez-Rodriguez, Professor, Natural Sciences This conversation builds on the simple SoTL question What works? It is also illuminated by the legacy of the conversations sparked during the Middle States on-site visit revolving around the reviewer’s question How do you know what students know? Rooted in the evaluators’ interest to [...]
Maintaining a Healthy and Collegial Environment in Times of Flux: A Chair’s Perspective
Moderator Cynthia Jones, Lecturer, English, CTL Co-Director Presenters Charles I. Drago, Chairperson, Allied Health SciencesJacqueline Disanto, Professor, EducationErnest Ialongo, Chair, Behavioral & Social SciencesAlisa Roost, Associate Professor & Chairperson, Humanities This year’s SPA Day theme seeks to stimulate conversations that include perspectives from the lens of students, faculty, and staff. A crucial perspective to include is that of the chairs [...]
Spa Day 2021 Program
Imagining a Brighter Future Through Rediscovering Teaching and Learning 9:30 am - 9:45 am Welcoming & Opening Remarks Emcees: Asrat Amnie, Assistant Professor, Education Linda Miles, Assistant Professor, Library Daisy Cocco de Filippis President, Hostos Community College Charles Drago Acting Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs 9:45 am - 10:00 am Tribute to Professor Isabel Li Silvia Reyes Director [...]