Michael Sachs by John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Kenneth Quick by John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Charles Strozier by John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Dr. Bryant - Reflections of 9/11 by John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Maria (Maki) Haberfeld of 9/11 Tributes and Testimonials at John Jay College.

Adjunct Professor and attorney Walter Signorelli was interviewed on People Of Distinction with Al Cole for his book “Rome and America: The Great Republics: What the Fall of the Roman Republic Portends for the United States.”

Associate Professor of History, Matthew Perry, discusses winning the Distinguished Teaching Prize 2019, having students write one-minute papers at the end of class, group work, engaging students in active learning, using self-reflection to prompt student growth versus teaching students to think like historians, and the importance of providing a variety of learning modalities in each class period.

Neurophysiologist and Associate Professor of Psychology Jill Grose-Fifer is the only professor at John Jay to have won the Distinguished Teaching Prize twice, first in 2009 and then again in 2019. In this interview Professor Grose-Fifer discusses fostering student growth in large classes using interactive clicker technology, using Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia Learning to improve her Powerpoints, how she has reshaped the curriculum of her classes to feature more diverse scholars as agents of transformation and drawn attention to the ethnocentric biases of her field after participating in the TLC’s HSI seminar for faculty, using Vodcasts to reduce student reading and flip the classroom, and supporting students’ personal transformations.

Eloísa Monteoliva-García, Assistant Professor of Translation and Interpreting (Spanish), discusses winning the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Prize after less than two years at John Jay College. She talks about the importance of structure, clarity and rules in her courses, creating coursework that enhances students’ sense of belonging in class and at John Jay, learning from the HSI seminar to listen to students’ talk about their experiences and the support they need, thinking through students’ schedules to determine which assignments can realistically be done at home, and finally diversifying the voices presented in the class and being mindful of how students can connect those voices to their own experiences. Finally, Professor Monteoliva-García discusses the many things she does to show students that they matter.

TLC Spotlights interview one or more faculty and staff members to focus on a particular teaching and learning issue. This spotlight interview with Dr. Gina Rae Foster, Director of John Jay College’s Teaching and Learning Center, focuses on how understanding trauma and resilience can make us better teachers. Dr. Foster discusses how trauma affects our capacities to learn and how we can work with our students to make our classrooms places of stability and community that allow for resilient learning.