Leading a workshop on campus at TCNJ in NJ
In New York City with SOS
In Bangladesh, working on a piece about environmental activism
In Bangladesh, working on a piece about environmental activism
Rehearsing with stage combat specialist for Jekyll and Hyde at Oakland Community College.
In New York City, leading a post show audience participation workshop around student loan debt
In a rehearsal for Sunday in the Park with George at TCNJ
With the Arc Mercer community of adults with learning disabilities and TCNJ college students creating an original piece titled, "(In)justice for All"
With the Arc Mercer community of adults with learning disabilities and TCNJ college students creating an original piece titled, "(In)justice for All"
A cross collaboration at Odessa College with the Portrait class; providing photography students with experience and drama students with headshots.
Rehearsing and realizing theatre in the challenging pandemic of 2020 at Odessa College. Masked, shielded, plastic between every performer, and socially distanced.
In New York City, leading a post show audience participation workshop around student loan debt
Working with students on a show at TCNJ
Conversations with Deaf colleagues about integrating the ASL shadow interpreters at Oakland Community College.
On stage, in rehearsal at Oakland Community College.
As a teacher, Jennifer offers a co-intentional, community-based environment that encourages dialogue, debate and open critical questioning of ourselves, the work and the world around us. As part of that philosophy, she finds that she often returns to many of Freire’s tenets. In particular, she is emboldened by his words, “But the humanist, revolutionary educator cannot wait for this possibility [the realization that banking education is irreconcilable with the vocation to becoming human] to materialize. From the outset, her efforts must coincide with those of the students to engage in critical thinking and the quest for mutual humanization. His efforts must be imbued with a profound trust in people and their creative power” (Freire, Paulo The Pedagogy of the Oppressed 75). A profound trust is key to education.
Jennifer believes that both the students and the teacher bring the role of “expert” to the classroom, through life experiences and learning. And, if one, as an educator, uses co-intentional pedagogy to influence their teachings, creating an environment that both student and leader learn and grow with, it can be a gentle call to arms to change one’s way of life and way of interacting with your students, your children, and your community.
Jennifer has been in the classroom for over fifteen years. She started in public education at a high school for the first ten years and has spent the last part of her career in higher education. In her classrooms, she works to create an all-inclusive community, not solely dependent upon talent, but instead open to any and all who want to learn, create and participate. She has worked to create classroom/community partnerships with senior centers, community centers for adults with learning disabilities and local public schools. Combining education with community allows both students and community members to learn from one another.
Jennifer Little is indeed that rarity - a truly gifted teacher that can change students’ lives. — Dale Simon, The College of New Jersey
Jennifer is a master of not only theater but bringing people together from completely different backgrounds in a way I have never seen. — Kirk Ponton, Arc Mercer
Jen is an incredible professor. She is responsive, caring, and accepting. She inspired me to get a theatre degree and she changed my life. - College Student, Oakland Community College