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Summer Writing Group 2026
If you’re working on a writing project for publication this summer, consider joining the Faculty Center’s new writing group. The group will meet on Tuesdays from 9 – 11 AM, […]
Teaching and Learning Focus Areas
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Resources from Our Professional Learning Community on Teaching Interculturally
Last week, the Faculty Center and the Teaching, Learning & Technology Center wrapped up our spring professional learning community, with a focus on intercultural pedagogy. Faculty and staff from Access…
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Scaffolding for student success
Discussion, as a whole class and in small groups, has always been a vital part of my classroom practice. Sometimes, though, when I pose a question to get things started,…
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Backward design: Keeping goals in view
Since education policy leaders Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe published Understanding by Design in 1998, backward design has dominated conversations about best practices in curriculum planning, both in US schools…
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Building in formative assessment
In the wake of high-stakes testing culture, education researchers have come to promote assessment practices that emphasize formative evaluation. Unlike a summative assessment, which measures student performance at the end…
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Engaging students: Collaboration in the classroom
After years of remote and hybrid instruction, students are both excited to work with others and nervous about how to. Faculty can help students find supported paths to making connections…
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Revitalizing your teaching philosophy with new practices
Statements of teaching philosophy have long been standard documents for academic employment and promotion dossiers. These statements explain in a page or two how and why we teach. (Guides on…
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Introducing Teaching Foundations: A Series on Pedagogy
Welcome to Teaching Foundations, a new content series devoted to sharing pedagogy resources responsive to our moment with teaching faculty at SUNY Oneonta. I’m Racheal Fest, and I’m excited to…
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Help Students Learn to Take Exams with Exam Wrappers
Our reading for May 5-11, 2022 explores the idea of Exam Wrappers to help students prepare for exams. Help Students Learn to Take Exams with Exam Wrappers – The attached…
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Unequal Competence: The Gap Between Passing and Learning
Our reading for April 21-27, 2022 explores some metacognitive techniques to share with students to help them realize when they might need to change their learning strategies to succeed in…
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Audrey Watters: The Ed Tech Skeptic
Ed Beck, Teaching, Learning and Technology Center A colleague recently shared with me an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education in which Goldie Blumensyk, the one of the Chronicle’s…
