This is an archive of the website for the Cluster Pedagogy Learning Community, a grant-funded faculty development project at PSU from 2019-2022. While all of the content has been preserved here, some features may no longer work and some links may be broken.

Time to Play Bingo!

My Medieval Legacies class has no content in the syllabus until students decide what they want to learn.

Jonathan Couser

Jonathan Couser

I inherited the class as a TL but remade it as a TF. Now there’s a brainstorming session where students pick topics to study and the syllabus gets filled in based on that.

I have taught a lesson about proper layering in the outdoors.

Shannon

Shannon

During Immersion semester, we are required to create a lesson plan and teach a concept to our fellow students that pertains to what we are doing

My first experience as a Teaching Assistant was for a Freshman Seminar course during a semester abroad in Strasbourg, France.

Nicole Jaskiewicz

Nicole Jaskiewicz

This program was through Colby-Sawyer College. I was an RA for a program that took First Semester Freshman abroad!

I threw up after my first time teaching a college course because I was so nervous (this isn’t really about pedagogy. I need more caffeine!)

Hannah Davidson

Hannah Davidson

See above re: caffeine

I learned this spring that Nicole Jaskiewicz is awesome to collaborate with, and also that students DO love collaborating across disciplines and writing for the public.

Becky Noel

Becky Noel

Nicole and I had classes reading the same book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Biochemistry (her) and Health and Illness in American History (me). Our students collaborated on a pressbook that would be a kind of Wikipedia/reader’s guide for the book from history & biochemistry knowledges. Popular and successful at least in my class!

Linking an experience with writing can make that writing more authentic, deliberate and interesting.

Elliott

Elliott

Doing an activity with a group and then writing about it builds community.

I have only ever taught one course in my “area of expertise”

Cathie LeBlanc

Cathie LeBlanc

My area of expertise leaving grad school was artificial intelligence and I have only taught that course once. I will never teach that class againbecause I am no longer in Computer Science

I used to hang out with 8th graders…

Jane Weber

Jane Weber

teaching language arts and sometimes talking about 8th grade things like gross food and body things.

I try not to guess what others have for previous life knowledge.

Chris Lee

Chris Lee

When I was a college student I was told a few times what I knew or didn’t know, but they had no idea what I had already experienced.

ASSETS = LIABILITIES + OWNERS’ EQUITY

Jen DeMoras

Jen DeMoras

This is the basic accounting equation.