Category: Teaching Breakfast
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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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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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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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Learn the Science and Practice of Gratitude Ahead of the Holiday Seasons
At Teaching Breakfast on November 17 & 18, 2021 we will be exploring ways to think about gratitude and the benefit of doing this. This is a reading from The Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan: Learn the Science and Practice of Gratitude Ahead of the Holiday Season – The article shares…
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Ways to Help Your Most Disconnected Students
At Teaching Breakfast this week we will be exploring ways to support disconnected students. This is a reading from the Chronicle of Higher Education: 4 Simple Ways to Help your Most Disconnected Students – The author of this article explores some concrete ways to help students that aren’t showing up to class. As we come to…
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