Winner of the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Prize Crystal Leigh Endsley, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, explains her ideas about acknowledging students as producers of culture, critical hip-hop pedagogy, project-based learning, and the deep humanity required of those in our profession.

Winner of the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Prize Edward Fabian Kennedy, Lecturer in Writing, talks about the flipped classroom, learning by doing, online collaboration and how teaching online fosters student workshops, peer review, and student engagement.

Winner of the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Prize Professor Richard Haw (Interdisciplinary Studies) talks about project-based learning, sourcing diverse course material, helping the students find personal meaning in course materials, the purpose of general education, updating curriculum, and learning from watching colleagues teach.

TLC Spotlights interview one or more faculty and staff members to focus on a particular teaching and learning issue.  This spotlight interview with Dr. Crystal Leigh Endsley, Assistant Professor of African Studies; Dr. Beata Potocki, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English; and Dr. Lisa Tsuei, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, focuses on the processes that help online educators establish and maintain more resilient student communities in their courses. Interviewed by Dr. Gina Rae Foster, Director of John Jay College’s Teaching and Learning Center, Drs. Endsley, Potocki, and Tsuei share strategies and experiences that have helped them create effective learning communities while teaching online.

In this TLC Spotlight Series podcast, Assistant Professor Erica King-Toler, Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Department; Associate Professor Schevaletta Alford, Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Department; and Assistant Professor Wendy Johnny, Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice share their expertise with teaching students experiencing drama, trauma, and mayhem both inside and outside the classroom. Speaking from three distinct pedagogical perspectives, these professors illustrate these terms with theory and anecdotes to provide rich definitions and examples of engaging students with capacity and time in multiple contexts.

Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Prize, Professor Aída Martínez-Gómez, discusses experiential learning, role-playing, serving Hispanic students, extra-curricular engagement, mentoring of students, and the Student Interpreter Service Program.

Winner of the Distinguished Teaching Prize 2011 Andrea Balis, Lecturer in History, discusses backwards design, reflective teaching practice, helping students learn how to learn, and question what they know.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Crystal Leigh Endsley, discusses winning the Distinguished Teaching Prize in 2016, why spoken word helps students develop agency, how she creates community in her classrooms, inspiring students to have courage in themselves, in-class writing and much more.

Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Prize, Professor Amanda Harris, discusses motivating students in their own learning, teaching about privilege, sharing one's humanity and failures with students as a way of modeling success, and anti-racist writing instruction for more just outcomes.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Post-Doctoral Researcher in Social Psychology at the Graduate Center Giazú Enciso Dominguez talks about inclusive teaching practices, connecting content to students' lives, feminist teaching as the co-construction of knowledge, and the importance of checking in with students.