Distinguished Teaching Prize Interview with Eloisa Monteolivia Garcia 

Please join the Teaching and Learning Center at John Jay College as we discuss the challenges of teaching with professor Matthew Perry 

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.

Writing Program Director Christen Madrazo discusses winning the Distinguished Teaching Prize in 2016, low-stakes writing, helping students find their own ideas for writing, teaching rhetorical craft, and the importance of stories to life.

Podcast Link:  https://soundcloud.com/john-jay-teaching-and-learning-center/john-jay-distinguished-teaching-prize-interview-with-christen-madrazo