Focus Area: Student Engagement

  • 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 […]

  • Getting Students Talking in Your Classroom

    In January, the Faculty Center offers workshops to support teaching faculty as the new semester begins. This month, we hosted sessions on Brightspace, AI course policies, future-focused course planning, and […]

  • Scaffolding for student success

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    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, […]

  • Backward design: Keeping goals in view

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    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 […]

  • Revitalizing your teaching philosophy with new practices

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    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 […]

  • Introducing Teaching Foundations: A Series on Pedagogy

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    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

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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 […]

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