Teaching and Learning Center (TLC)

Teaching and Learning Center (TLC)

The Teaching and Learning Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice is dedicated to recognizing excellence in teaching and learning, to supporting social justice and equity in public urban higher education, and to providing mentoring, resources, and opportunities that enable faculty, staff, and students to engage with and enhance teaching and learning.
 
During the pandemic and our shared experiences of increased racial violence and climate change, the TLC continues to work within its mission to guide and support the college to more effective and humane approaches to teaching and learning. As we operate remotely, we commit ourselves to sustaining awareness and responsiveness to the needs of our community and our responsibilities towards faculty, students, and staff.
 

 

 

Teaching in Difficult Times

Updates for Election 2020

In 2016, we created the Teaching in Difficult Times page to support our community through the post-election. Now, we offer these additional resources for student and community support in the weeks ahead. Please refer to the Teaching in Difficult Times page (relocated here) for further resources.

Avoiding Post-Election Student Unrest
 
Preparing for the Election and Its Aftermath with Your Students
 
Pew Research Center: Election 2020
(data that may be helpful in discussing voter participation and ongoing results)

 

Creating a Framework for a Culturally Affirming, Inclusive,

and Anti-Racist Curriculum

This podcast is hosted by John Jay College of Criminal Justice Associate Provost Dara Byrne and Associate Provost Allison Pease to accompany the 2020-2021 process of creating a shared framework for a culturally affirming, inclusive, and anti-racist curriculum that serves all students aspiring to careers in criminal and social justice fields at our proud Hispanic and Minority-Serving college.

Episode 1: The Curriculum IS the Institution, the call for change. 

Associate Provosts Pease and Byrne discuss the need for curricular change, faculty and student meetings over summer 2020, and the next steps for creating a shared framework for our curriculum.

Episode 2: What Is A Culturally Affirming Curriculum?

As part of our faculty-wide discussion on creating a framework for a culturally affirming, inclusive, and anti-racist curriculum, Associate Provosts Dara Byrne and Allison Pease talk with (in order of appearance on the show) Professor Henry Smart III (Public Management), Nina Rose Fischer (Interdisciplinary Studies), Jama Adams (Africana Studies), Lissette Delgado-Cruzata (Sciences), and Monika Son (SEEK) about how they understand and enact culturally affirming curriculum and pedagogy.

Episode 3: What Is An Inclusive Curriculum?

As part of our faculty-wide discussion on creating a framework for a culturally affirming, inclusive, and anti-racist curriculum, Associate Provosts Dara Byrne and Allison Pease talk with (in order of appearance on the show) Professor Silvia Mazzula (Psychology), Alexandra Moffet-Bateau (Political Science), And John Gutiérrez (Latin American and Latinx Studies) about how they understand and enact inclusive curriculum and pedagogy. In particular, this episode questions the value of the terms culturally affirming and inclusive as they relate to white supremacy.  In addition Professors Mazzula, Moffet-Bateau and Gutiérrez discuss the effects of white supremacy on their own educations and efforts to engage students.

Episode 4: What Is an Anti-Racist Curriculum?

As part of our faculty-wide discussion on creating a framework for a culturally affirming, inclusive and anti-racist curriculum, Associate Provosts Dara Byrne and Allison Pease talk with (in order of appearance on the show) Professor Demis Glasford (Psychology), Professor Shreya Subramani (Law and Society), Professor Virginia Diaz-Mendoza (SEEK) and Professor Ray Patton (History and Honors) about how they understand and enact anti-racist curriculum and pedagogy. In particular, this episode explores the importance of bringing students’ lived experiences into the classroom to disrupt and challenge established knowledge.

 

What adjustments can you make to better reflect the ideal in which our students know they can thrive?

Click here to see all episodes of the podcast: https://anchor.fm/allison-pease

 

 

During the ongoing challenges of the Coronavirus pandemic, the TLC office will be available remotely. Our staff will be working regular hours. 

Please email: tlc@jjay.cuny.edu

*Please note that although the TLC phones have been forwarded to our email account, voice messages are not always received in a timely manner. We advise contacting us through the TLC email address above. We do not have access to fax communications at this time.