Appendix - Working Group 5
CollegeWide/CUNY supports CTL learning: a. PDIs (Professional Development Institute)
b. Brown Bags
c. RITE (Research and Innovations in Teaching & Education) Seminars
d. Speaker Series
e. Cultural Activities
Full-Time Faculty Supports Function PDIs are workshops for faculty to learn information technology skills. Given throughout the year by Office of Instructional Technology and PDI week in June, sponsored by OIT and CTL b. Brown Bags are meant to be informal meetings on any topic a faculty member or dept. wishes to discuss; some are also organized to provide a venue for faculty presentations. c. RITE Seminars (Research and Innovations in Teaching & Education) Brings together faculty, HEO’s & CLTs from all departments to present and discuss recent discoveries or experiences in research, teaching, and learning that can be applied to other disciplines. d. Speakers Series brings outside professionals in a wide variety of disciplines to speak about what they do. e. Cultural Activities sponsored by the CTL joins together Hostos faculty with student audiences, as well as bringing in artists from the community.
Teaching Scholarship Service Notes/examples
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a. Examples of PDIs : “Library Tools to Make your Course Research Friendly; “Tools to Improve Group Projects.” “How to Create Your Portfolio for Reappointment, Tenure & Promotion.”
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b. Brown Bag examples: “ Rubrics for Lunch; “Afternoon Tea with the President.”
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c. R.I.T.E. Seminar examples: “Teaching Women’s Gender Studies Across the Curriculum” “Writing for Mass Media and Academia: Understanding the Differences.” “Sound Bites About Gratitude: What Is It? How Do You Give Thanks?”
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d. Speakers’ Series examples: Vinie Burrows, Actor, Storyteller, Activist Tato Laviera, Nuyorican poet
e. Cultural Activities examples: African Americans and the Civil War; Celebrating the 8th International Conference on Women Writers of the Spanish Caribbean: On Diaspora and Homecoming; Poem in Your Pocket Day; Women’s History Month (talks, films, performances); African-American Read-In.
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