[cid:6c474e90-4a48-41b0-aa32-decbbdac7901] CETLL is delighted to announce the return of the Teaching & Learning Showcase, a day-long event that centers innovative, equitable, and student-centered pedagogical practices and projects at Queens College. Date: May 2, 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. Location: TBA, in-person on campus The CALL FOR PROPOSALS for CETLL’s Teaching & Learning Showcase is now open! CETLL invites Queens College faculty members to share pedagogical practices that you have found to be effective and engaging for your students. If you have participated in any CETLL workshops, trainings, or seminars in the past, we invite you to share what you learned or developed through those experiences with this wider campus audience. We welcome proposals on teaching and learning matters that are important to you. We offer the following topics and questions for consideration: * Accessibility and Inclusivity in the Classroom: What pedagogical tools and strategies effectively support our classrooms to be more accessible and inclusive, particularly for our neurodivergent, multilingual, first-generation, transfer and/or low-income students? * Active Learning: What methods are we using in our classes to encourage students to engage in deep learning, including through opportunities to practice skills, solve problems, work with complex questions and concepts, and develop and express their ideas? * Grading and Feedback: How do our approaches to grading and assessment foster student growth and learning? How do we offer constructive feedback to our students across different courses, class sizes, and levels? * Generative AI: What are the ways we are engaging in discussion with our students about the growth of Generative AI? How are we responding to these developments through our curriculum design, assignments, and course policies? How do we use current discourse about Generative AI to open up dialogue about processes of teaching, learning, and the purpose of the classroom? * Instructional Technology: How does our use of technology-based tools support our efforts to grow student engagement, collaboration, and connection in our classes? What specific tools have been effective in meeting pedagogical goals, and how? * Community Well-being: What tools and strategies are we using to foster structures and cultures of wellness in our classroom, for our students as well as ourselves? How do we cultivate spaces in our classrooms that are able to engage in conflict and challenging dynamics without enabling harm? We welcome proposals that utilize any of the following formats: * Lightning Presentation (5 minutes): a format for a brief presentation that demonstrates a specific technology-based tool, shares an activity prompt, or otherwise showcases a specific teaching practice. * Individual Presentation (15 minutes): a format for faculty members to share strategies, tools, materials, and/or aspects of an effective teaching practice, including reflection and/or questions that have emerged. (*Please note that CETLL may group individual presentations that touch on similar themes into panels or roundtables.) * Panel Presentation or Roundtable (45 minutes): a format for several faculty members to share strategies, tools, materials, and/or aspects of an effective teaching practice, including reflection and/or questions that have emerged. The group can be made up of individual panelists or structured as a roundtable conversation among the participants. * Interactive Presentation or Workshop (30 minutes): a format for presenters to demonstrate a tool, activity, assignment or other teaching practice in a way that actively engages the audience. * Open format: We are open to other modes of sharing information and engaging in discussion at the Teaching & Learning Showcase. Please feel free to propose a different format and/or time allotment for your offering. Deadline for Proposals: 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025. Submit your proposal here: https://forms.office.com/r/0aAw07zq4x Selected applicants will be notified on April 7, 2025. Please save the date May 2, 2025, in your calendar. Information: CTLOnline@qc.cuny.edu<mailto:CTLOnline@qc.cuny.edu> https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/teaching-and-learning-showcase
