Category: Readings
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Social and Community Offerings from the Faculty Center
The Faculty Center is hosting a few opportunities to meet up with colleagues for informal fun this semester. Join us for food and beverages at one of our upcoming events. On the first Friday of the month, we’d love to see you for our social hour at Muddy River Tap Room in Oneonta (4:30 –…
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Make It Stick: A Professional Learning Community
In February and March, the Faculty Center is hosting a professional learning community devoted to Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Belknap Press, Harvard, 2014). The book makes the cognitive science of learning accessible to readers of all disciplines. It explodes some popular assumptions about how we learn best—by cramming for a test…
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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 Education, Sport and Exercise Science, and more came together every other week to talk about Teaching Interculturally: A Framework for…
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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 article from Center for Teaching and Learning and Indiana University introduces the idea of exam wrappers as extra activities scheduled around your exam to help…
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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 class. Unequal Competence: The Gap Between Passing and Learning – This article from the Learn Well Project provides 2 conditions that need to be met…
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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 senior writers on the topics of innovation and technology in higher education. It starts… A conversation with ‘ed tech’s Cassandra.’ The head of higher education’s…
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What to say — and not to say — to an emotional student
Our Teaching Breakfast reading for explores ways to communicate with students about emotionally charged conversations. What to Say–and not say–to an Emotional Student – The attached article from Harvard Business Publishing provides some tips for helping manage conversations with students on emotional subjects. It has some good tips on what supportive language looks like and…
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The Messy Middle, Intercultural Learning, and Internationalization
Our readings for March 23-30, 2022 to explore some concepts around internationalization in higher education and ways to cope being in the middle of an intercultural experience. The End of Internationalization – The attached article is from the journal International Higher Education and explores the idea of internationalization and what it should look like for…
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How to Have a Classroom Experience that Matters
How to Have a Classroom Experience That Matters – This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education provides some tips for helping students create meaning for the classroom again and fight against students’ feelings of burn-out and meaninglessness that are products of the pandemic. We look forward to talking your ideas for making your classroom…
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How to Give Our Students the Grace We All Need
Our reading for these first weeks is some tips for balancing supporting students and our own well-being. How to Give Our Students the Grace We All Need – This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education provides some tips as we start the semester. It offers some practical advice for way to support your students…
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