CETL
CETL’s mission is to enhance teaching potential and effectiveness across the college.
Through workshops and programs, the Center brings faculty from all disciplines into
contact with creative instructional practices and technologies. Using a collaborative
approach and building on faculty strengths, CETL supports a campus culture that
recognizes and values faculty role. CETL professional development spans teaching
methodologies, faculty research and scholarship, collaboration across disciplines,
assessment practices, cultural competence, and instructional technology for student
engagement.
Core Activities and Performance
Core Activity
Key PI
Indicators
Professional Development
Volume of service and participation
Yes
Encourage and support faculty in
implementing innovative pedagogies to
engage students
Number of faculty participating in high impact learning practices
Yes
Encourage and support faculty in utilizing
instructional technology for engaging
students
Number of faculty utilizing instructional technology to enhance
their courses
No
Enhance teaching effectivemeness &
research potential
Number of workshops and individual consultations to support
faculty in pedagogy related presentations and publications
Yes
Support faculty in conducting pedagogical
research and scholarship of teaching and
learning (SOTL)
Number of faculty publications and presentations in SOTL
Yes
Department-Sponsored Staff Development Activities
Activity Type
Topic
Date
Total
Developing Faculty e-Portfolios-Session Four
4/27/2012
14
Service Learning 101
9/9/2011
27
Selecting the Right Tools for Engaging Students
9/23/2011
22
Reflection and Assessment Strategies
10/5/2011
26
Creating Web-Enhanced Lessons and Activities
10/14/2011
24
Instructional Technology and Assessment Tools
11/4/2011
22
A Faculty Panel: Improving Intercultural Communication
11/9/2011
30
New Trends in Instructional Technology
12/2/2011
14
Nuts and Bolts for New Faculty
2/8/2012
20
Developing Faculty e-Portfolios-Session One
2/10/2012
20
Developing Faculty e-Portfolios-Session Two
3/9/2012
20
Using Reflection Activities in Your Classes
3/12/2012
25
Proposal Guidelines for Pedagogical Research Challenge Award
3/22/2012
21
Developing Faculty ePortfolios-Session Three
3/30/2012
16
both
Department-Sponsored Staff Development Activities
Activity Type
Topic
Date
Total
Nuts & Bolts for New faculty
9/21/2011
12
Pedagogical Research Projects Presentations
10/12/2011
36
The New CUNY-Wide IRBs:An Overview
11/2/2011
15
Con-Edison Service Learning Breakfast
11/4/2011
52
Using eReserve for your Classes
11/7/2011
4
Using the QCC Library for Teaching & Research
11/16/2011
5
Evidence Based Practice in Nursing
11/16/2011
18
Service Learning 101
1/5/2012
20
How to use library’s E-Reserve system for your courses
2/7/2012
5
Using the QCC Library for Teaching & Research
2/16/2012
3
Academic Publishing Workshop-Library Research
3/13/2012
12
How do you Know if Your Students are really Learning?
3/14/2012
55
The new CUNY-Wide IRBs
3/29/2012
14
Service Learning-Family Day at the Farm
3/31/2012
130
What a Difference a Fulbright Makes!
4/5/2012
10
Faculty Panel: Honors courses in the humanities
4/18/2012
18
Earth Day Celebration-Service Learning
4/25/2012
150
Academic Service Learning Conversation
5/22/2012
50
organized
Professional Achievements and Activities of Individual Staff
Achievement Type
Other
First Name
Last Name
Achievement
Semester
Meg
Tarafdar
“An Interdisciplinary Approach to
Spring 2012
Global Literacy: Teaching Eastern
Perspectives in World Literature
Courses” Transitions and
Transactions: Literature Pedagogy in
Community Colleges Conference at
the Borough of Manhattan
Community College, City University of
New York.
Meg
Tarafdar
"Avoiding Inter-cultural
Spring 2012
Miscommunication in the Classroom"
Presenter (CUNY CUE Conference,
College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Meg
Tarafdar
"Avoiding Inter-cultural
Spring 2012
Miscommunication in the Classroom"
Presenter (NISOD Conference-International Conference on Teaching
Excellence)
Meg
Tarafdar
"Using Technology and Media for
Engaging Students"--Presenter
(Successful Teaching Conference,
Syracuse)
Conference Presentation
- published as
proceedings
Conference Presentation,
other
Fall 2011
Professional Achievements and Activities of Individual Staff
Achievement Type
Other
First Name
Last Name
Achievement
Semester
Meg
Tarafdar
"Building Campus-Community
Partnerships"--Panelist (New York
Campus Compact National
Conference)
Fall 2011
Meg
Tarafdar
"Using Technology and Media for
Engaging Hispanic Students"-Presenter (HETS Best Practices
Showcase-Puerto Rico)
Spring 2012
Meg
Tarafdar
Presenter-"Using Technology and
Spring 2012
Media for Engaging Hispanic Students
." HETS Best Practices Showcase,
Inter-American University, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, Feb 16-17, 2012.
Meg
Tarafdar
"Blended Learning Best in Class:
Flipping the Large Enrollment
Lecture" ECHO Training.
Spring 2012
Meg
Tarafdar
"E-Portfolio and Pedagogy" Making
Transfer Connection-Laguardia
CC-CUNY
Spring 2011
Meg
Tarafdar
"E-Portfolio and Assessment"--Making Spring 2011
Transfer Connection (LaGuardia
Community College-CUNY)
Meg
Tarafdar
“Academically Adrift” Richard Arum
Fall 2011
Lecture, Sept 22, 2011, York College,
CUNY
Meg
Tarafdar
“Future of Higher Education” (Dec 8- Fall 2011
9)-Center for Public Scholarship, New
School, NY.
Meg
Tarafdar
“Teaching and Learning in the Cloud” Fall 2011
SUNY Conference on Higher
Education
Meg
Tarafdar
PSC-CUNY Grant-$3000 for Summer
2011“Enhancing Intercultural
Competence: A Professional
Development Model for the
Workplace” (July 2011)
Meg
Tarafdar
"Food Metaphor in Asian-American
Fall 2011
Works" Speaker-Food Diversity
Day-QCC-CUNY (Health & Physical Ed
dept)
Meg
Tarafdar
Presenter-"Writing for
Spring 2012
Publication"-Faculty Event-SWIG
(Student Wiki Interdisciplinary Group)
-QCC-CUNY
Meg
Tarafdar
"Improving Intercultural
Communication in the Classroom"
(City College-CUNY)
Conference, workshop,
training attended
Grants awarded (title,
awarding agency, amount
and period of award)
Summer 2011
Lecture (Invited)
Spring 2012
Professional Achievements and Activities of Individual Staff
Achievement Type
Other
First Name
Last Name
Achievement
Semester
Meg
Tarafdar
"Increasing Intercultural
Spring 2011
Competence: Communicating Across
Cultures"
Meg
Tarafdar
"Teaching with Technology"
(Pedagogy Seminar
Series-QCC-CUNY)
Meg
Tarafdar
Reviewed grant proposals for "Disney Spring 2012
Friends for Change"--YSA (Youth
Service America) grant
Meg
Tarafdar
Consultant to the Committee on
Spring 2012
Cultural and Archival Resources(CAR)
for designing a seminar series on
utilizing cultural and archival
resources in the courses.
Meg
Tarafdar
Designed a brochure ("Opportunities Spring 2012
for faculty participation") for
distribution at the college-wide
faculty meeting organized by
Academic Affairs
Meg
Tarafdar
Co-Coordinator--Academic Service
Learning (High Impact Strategy) at
Queensborough
Spring 2012
Meg
Tarafdar
“Web 2.0 Tools” eLearning
Institute-Presenter & committee
member
Summer 2011
Meg
Tarafdar
Search Committee Member-Accounting Faculty, Business Dept,
QCC
Spring 2012
Meg
Tarafdar
Committee Member--Affirmative
Action Committee, QCC
Spring 2012
Meg
Tarafdar
Program Advisor-FulbrightU.S.
Scholar Program
Spring 2011
Meg
Tarafdar
"Academic Service-Learning 101"
Fall 2011
Presenter and facilitaror (QCC-Service
Learning Program)
Meg
Tarafdar
CETL Wiki--Developed and compiled
resources for faculty development
initiatives at QCC
Other please describe
below
Spring 2011
Service as a
reviewer/editor/
consultant
Service to department,
College, University,
community, and/or
professional society
Web Site Development
Fall 2011
Changes in Department within Last Year
Change Type
Change
Reason
Semester
Old computers and furniture were disposed
off from CETL workshop room. There has
been an addition of 23 iMacs, podium,
projector, and display screen.
The change in furniture and equipment Spring 2012
was necessary for the configuration of
a multimedia room for faculty/staff.
Equipment
Facilities/Space
CETL's workshop room is being modified into There is a need for computer-equipped Spring 2012
a multimedia room with computers, podium, facilities for faculty development.
and projector for conducting workshops.
Services
CETL published the first issue of Academic
Affairs digital bulletin (Spring 2012)
dedicated to QCC's professional activities for
faculty and staff.
Because of the broad range of events
and workshops at Queensborough,
there is a need for streamlining the
process of announcements for
college-wide promotion.
Spring 2012
Assessment and Evaluation
KPI
Target Outcome
Actual Outcome
Volume of service
and participation
Increase the volume of
1002 attendees participated in
service and participation of CETL-sponsored initiatives (Fall
full time and part time
2011 & Spring 2012 combined).
faculty and staff
This number has increased from
880 attendees last year
Continue to build a series Continuing
of theme-based
workshops.
Utilize the OAA bulletin
to disseminate
information about
professional activities for
faculty and staff.
Teaching
effectiveness and
research potential
Increase the
implementation of high
impact practices (such as
service learning,
ePortfolios, etc.) and
pedagogical publications.
Continue to offer
Continuing
workshops on integrating
high impact strategies
into the freshman
academies; Offer support
for pedagogical research
Additional 40 faculty members
have successfully
integrated service learning as
one of the high impact practices;
Fourteen faculty members have
successfully created faculty
ePortfolios for the first time;
Pedagogical research and best
practices were emphasized in 19
publications
and 71 presentations
Action Plan
Status
Assessment Plan
Core Activity
KPI
Target Outcome
Plan, develop, and
coordinate a consistent
number of professional
development activities
Increase the volume of
Increase cohort-based workshop
service and participation for participation and professional
full time and part time faculty development by 10%
Utilize the OAA digital
bulletin, emails, and
targetted announcement
efforts to enhance faculty
interest in participating in
CETL activities.
Encourage and support
faculty in implementing
innovative pedagogies to
engage students
Increase the number of
faculty participating in
service learning, ePortfolios,
and other high impact
learning experiences
Continue to offer workshops
and individual consultations
to support faculty
Encourage 10 new faculty to
integrate high impact learning
experiences in their courses
Plan
Assessment Plan
Core Activity
KPI
Target Outcome
Plan
Encourage and support
Increase the number of
faculty in utilizing
workshops on instructional
instructional technology for technology and increase the
engaging students
number of faculty utilizing
instructional technology in
their classes
Encourage 10 additional faculty (from Continue to offer workshops
across the disciplines) to utilize
on integrating technology in
instructional technology in their
the classes
courses; increase 10 additional
faculty to offer hybrid classes
Support faculty in
Offer additional workshops
conducting pedagogical
and individual consultations
research and scholarship of to support the number of
teaching and learning
faculty projects in SOTL and
(SOTL)
pedagogical research,
publications, and
presentations
Increase two additional workshops to Announce upcoming
support faculty in pedagogy
opportunities & call for
presentations, projects, and
proposals; inform faculty
publications
about opportunities for
collaboration, publication,
workshop, research, grants,
etc.