Fifth Annual NJCU Pedagogy Day
12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The 2022 NJCU Pedagogy Day will focus on:
Two-Year COVID Review: From Pan(dem)ic to Possibilities
Speakers
Amirah Kitchen, Welcome
Dr. Tamara Jhashi, Prelude
Dr. Angel Gonzalez, Keynote
Amy L. Hankins, Feedback
Dr. John Bragg, Experiential Learning
Supported by the NJCU initiative C3 - Communication, Collaboration, Celebration
Pedagogy Day Committee
Amirah Kitchen, NJCU Psi Chi Chapter President
Dr. Fank Nascimento
Dr. Wei Zhang
Dr. Nurdan Aydin
Dr. Peri Yuksel
Program
The Fifth Annual NJCU Pedagogy Day 2022 | Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022
“Two-Year Covid-19 Review: Pan(dem)ic to Possibilities”
12.30 Welcome, Amirah Kitchen
12.50 Opening Remarks by NJCU Provost Dr. Tamara Jhashi
1.00 – 1.25pm Keynote: Angel Gonzalez
“DIVERSITY & EQUITY IN TIMES OF COVID-19”
1.30-2pm Spark Presentation: Amy Hankins
“FEEDBACK”
Amy Hankins is a doctoral student in the Community College Leadership Ed.D. program, NJCU. Amy’s research concerns effective pedagogical practices to best support diverse community college students. Her spark talk focuses on feedback and the power it has to help or hinder student success with a lens on equity and inclusion. Since 2007, Amy has been an Instructor of Communications at Gateway Technical College in Wisconsin where she recently led her college’s first faculty learning community focused on effective feedback practices. Amy loves to hike with her dogs, read novels, and play poker with her wonderful husband, Michael. She is also an amateur photographer and an advocate for animal adoption and welfare.
2.15 -4.00pm Symposium: John K. Bragg, Elam Mesa, & Robert Belibrov
“CITY-AS-TEXT”
Honors programs often utilize the City-as-Text method as a cost-effective but hasty preparation for short-term study. Dr. John Bragg’s course, "City-as-Text Istanbul, applied a more gradual approach that combined predeparture classroom study with a ten-day trip to Istanbul. The blended approach tempered the subjectivity of "walkabout" exercises - the impromptu of experiential learning activities of conventional city-as-text - with a rounded examination into the historical, socioeconomic, and cultural underpinnings of two focal cities, Jersey City and Istanbul. The premise of this hybrid approach was that preparation for walkabouts might leverage learning into "known" or "unknown" walkabout locales by exposing students to diachronic and synchronic reasoning around longstanding targets of urban renewal - for better or worse. The evidence for the study derives from student work samples and survey data and touches briefly upon the challenges of study abroad pedagogy during a pandemic.
John K. Bragg is an associate professor of history and education at New Jersey City University. He specializes in late Ottoman provincial history, transnational and diplomatic history, and project-based learning in social studies. His first book, Ottoman Notables and Participatory Politics: Tanzimat Reform in Tokat, 1839-1876, came out in 2014
Elam Mesa is studying biology at NJCU aspires to go into medical school and become a doctor to aid his community. One of Elam’s favorite quotes is "Believe you can, and you're halfway there" by Theodore Roosevelt. He says that “this quote is about how accomplishing something is just as much about working hard and making sacrifices as it is about believing in your ability to do so in the first place.” His favorite Turkish dish was the crispy manti. His next destination to learn about and experience will likely be Japan.
Robert Belibrov is a biology major at NJCU and aspires to go into medical school. He is the oldest of Romanian immigrants and a first-generation child born in NYC. His personal favorite quote is "God forbid that I should live an Emperor without an Empire! As my city falls, I will fall with it!"- Constantine XI. Robert’s favorite dish in Turkey had to be Baklava and he is hoping to go to Japan sometime in the upcoming summer.
Pedagogy Day Committee
Amirah Kitchen (NCJU Psi Chi Chapter President), Dr. Frank Nascimento (Associate Professor, Psychology), Dr. Wei Zhang (Assistant Professor, Psychology), Dr. Nurdan Duzgoren-Aydin (Associate Provost for Academic Affairs), Dr. Peri Yuksel, chair (Assistant Professor, Psychology)