Teaching and Learning Center @ John Jay College's Podcasts on Teaching and Learning

By Allison Pease

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What's Teaching and Learning Center @ John Jay College's Podcasts on Teaching and Learning about?

Interviews with professors, staff and students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY on teaching and learning in a community committed to educating for justice.

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Teaching and Learning Center @ John Jay College's Podcasts on Teaching and Learning episodes:

06.05.2019
TLC Spotlight-Drama, Trauma, and Mayhem: Engaging Students and Faculty with Capacity and Time
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...
05.21.2019
TLC Spotlight: Connecting Processes and Community in Online Courses
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...
04.14.2019
Distinguished Teaching Prize interview with Matthew Perry
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...
04.11.2019
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize interview with Eloisa Monteoliva Garcia
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...
04.07.2019
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize Interview with Jill Grose-Fifer
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...
01.18.2019
TLC Spotlight - Gina Foster on How Understanding Trauma and Resiliency Can Improve Your Teaching
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...
10.18.2018
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize interview with Andrea Balis
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.
08.20.2018
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize interview with Amanda Harris
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...
05.11.2018
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize Interview with Aída Martínez-Gómez
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.
03.28.2018
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Crystal Leigh Endsley
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...
02.23.2018
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Michael Yarbrough
Assistant Professor of Law and Society Michael Yarbrough discusses winning the Distinguished Teaching Prize in 2015, doing research with undergraduates, providing feedback on writing, showing respect for students, low-stakes writing, and creating a community for peer learning in the classroom.
12.22.2017
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Elton Beckett
Lecturer in Communication and Theatre Arts, Elton Beckett, discusses winning the Distinguished Teaching Prize in 2012, why we should be focusing on our C students, working with student strengths, mentoring students to use campus resources, facilitating group work, and listening...
12.08.2017
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Isabel Martinez
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Isabel Martinez, discusses winning the Distinguished Teaching Prize in 2013, Latinx students, creating an inter-institutional course with students at the University of Texas El Paso, using ePortfolio and other tech in the...
10.09.2017
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Gregory Donaldson
Associate Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts Greg Donaldson discusses winning the Distinguished Teaching Prize in 2014, teaching as coaching, motivating students, identifying student strengths, using drama in the classroom, and creating memorable experiences.
10.09.2017
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Christen Madrazo
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.
10.09.2017
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with winner Rob Faunce
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Gender Studies, Rob Faunce, discusses winning the Distinguished Teaching Prize, learning from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, flexibility, group work, scaffolding, how he humanizes himself for his classes, and builds trust.
10.09.2017
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with winner Alexander Long
Associate Professor of English Alexander Long discusses motivating students using the growth mindset, active reading, and empathy.
10.09.2017
John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with winner Carla Barrett
Associate Professor of Sociology Carla Barrett discusses winning the Distinguished Teaching Prize, talking about race in the classroom, group work, writing to learn, and how staying vulnerable with students allows real conversations to flourish.

What's Teaching and Learning Center @ John Jay College's Podcasts on Teaching and Learning about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Teaching and Learning Center @ John Jay College's Podcasts on Teaching and Learning episodes:

TLC Spotlight-Drama, Trauma, and Mayhem: Engaging Students and Faculty with Capacity and Time

TLC Spotlight: Connecting Processes and Community in Online Courses

Distinguished Teaching Prize interview with Matthew Perry

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize interview with Eloisa Monteoliva Garcia

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize Interview with Jill Grose-Fifer

TLC Spotlight - Gina Foster on How Understanding Trauma and Resiliency Can Improve Your Teaching

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize interview with Andrea Balis

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize interview with Amanda Harris

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize Interview with Aída Martínez-Gómez

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Crystal Leigh Endsley

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Michael Yarbrough

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Elton Beckett

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Isabel Martinez

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Gregory Donaldson

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with Christen Madrazo

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with winner Rob Faunce

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with winner Alexander Long

John Jay Distinguished Teaching Prize - Interview with winner Carla Barrett