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Resources from the POD Network Conference, 2023
Last month, a small group of faculty and staff from the Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship attended the 48th Annual POD Network Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. The conference brings together educational developers to…
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Engaging with AI Tools in Your Course
The Teaching, Learning & Technology Center organized a series of sessions devoted to AI tools this spring. Students across higher ed increasingly report using ChatGPT and DALL-E to generate text and images in response to…
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Collaborative Learning Across the Disciplines: A Faculty Roundtable
This past semester, the TLTC convened a faculty roundtable to share strategies related to collaborative learning. After experiencing online and asynchronous learning environments over the past several years, students may need additional support learning to…
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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 and Opportunity Programs, Business, Global…
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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, students don’t answer right away.…
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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 and in higher education. Simply…
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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 of a course or a…
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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 in the classroom. Collaborative learning…
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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 how to write a good…
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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 join our campus community this…
