This workshop was developed as part of the Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center and the Teach@CUNY Summer Institute for CUNY Graduate Center.

Now in its third year, the Institute aims to prepare new college instructors not only for their upcoming teaching responsibilities, but for a lifetime as engaged, committed educators. Each class of Graduate Teaching Fellows will work with approximately 50,000 CUNY undergraduates over a three-year span and, overall, Graduate Center students teach approximately 150,000 CUNY undergraduates every year. The Institute welcomes these scholars into a community of faculty committed to CUNY’s mission to serve the whole people of New York.

The 2020 the Teach@CUNY Summer Institute is open to all first-year doctoral students, regardless of fellowship status. The Institute has been wholly redesigned—in both structure and content— in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The event is designed and facilitated by the staff of the Teaching and Learning Center, who collectively have taught dozens of courses across CUNY and who spend each academic year working with GC student instructors in a variety of ways to support their teaching. This group has worked since mid-March 2020 to reconceptualize the Institute to address the challenges of teaching at a beleaguered university during a time of crisis, and to acknowledge the likelihood that much instruction in the 2020-2021 academic year will happen online.

Workshop designer

Lindsey Albracht is a doctoral candidate in the English program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She specializes in Writing Studies. Her research examines how community-engaged faculty education supports the development of anti-oppressive and race-conscious translingual pedagogical approaches. She also has an extensive background in teaching faculty about how to incorporate educational technology into their practice in ethical, active, and student-centered ways.

In addition to working as a Teaching and Learning Fellow at Macaulay, Lindsey also works as a consultant in the Columbia University School of Social Work Writing Center. She formerly taught writing and literature at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Duquesne University. Lindsey has also worked at Baruch College’s Center for Teaching and Learning as a Digital Pedagogy Specialist, as the Director of Studies at International House New York, as a Cambridge English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) teacher educator, and as an ESL teacher.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Laurie Hurson, Logan McBride, Bryan Milo, Virginia Schwarz, Luke Waltzer, and Amy Wan for giving feedback on the pilot version of this workshop, and thank you to the Graduate Center Teaching and Learning Center for providing support. This workshop would not have been possible without the collaborations that I have been fortunate to have with Tamara Gubernat, Laurie Hurson, Allison Lehr-Samuels, and Hamad Sindhi in the design of the Baruch College Hybrid Seminar for faculty. I am grateful to continue learning alongside an amazing team of teacher educators.

Equity and Access in the Online Learning Space by Lindsey Albracht is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.