Teaching & Learning Showcase

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.  

Your submission should include the following information;  please note suggested word counts:  

• Submitter Name  

• Title  

• Department  

• Queens College Email Address  

• If this is a collaborative submission, include names, titles, and departments of other presenters: 

• Proposal Title 

• Proposal (100-200 words)  

• Takeaways: What do you hope participants will learn from your session? (50 words, bulleted list is welcome) 

• Preferred Format:  

• Lightning presentation (5 minutes)  

• Individual presentation (15 minutes)  

• Panel presentation or roundtable discussion (45 minutes)  

• Interactive presentation or workshop (30 minutes)  

• Other format, please explain:  

If panel presentation or roundtable discussion, share how your group plans to use the time allotted:  

If interactive presentation or workshop, share the specific ways that you will engage the audience:  

• The conference room will include basic AV equipment in the room (e.g. microphones, a laptop, projector). Do you have any additional AV equipment requests?  

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.