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!

I need to make my evaluation parameters clearer

Hannah Dutton

Hannah Dutton

I had several students this past semester not understand or learn well with the grading parameters I had set up. I think I understand why and will try and work on it over the summer!

This year I’ve learned that students will be forgiving of almost anything you try in the classroom when you are open about your approach and welcome feedback.

Katie Wolsiefer

Katie Wolsiefer

I was nervous about trying to flip my classes AND teach using a hy-flex model. Some things that we tried worked really well and others definitely did not. I was really nervous when I solicited mid-semester feedback and again when I received evals at the end of the semester, but the students really seemed to enjoy being part of the process and appreciative of the fact that their professors are learning too.

Online Zoom Classes

Manisha

Manisha

Couple semesters has been really weird because of all the online classes. I am a person who has to be in person and talk with my professors and that helps me a lot to understand things but couple semesters were crazy. Everything was online, zoom classes,

Teaching kids during lockdown…

Carmela

Carmela

My neighbors kids are 3,5 and 9 years old and they study in an English school but with the pandemic last year during lockdown they would study online and I would spend all day helping them and teaching their classes. They were hilarious and they started l

When I tutor at the PASS Office, many of my tutees ask me to hold them accountable when they get distracted. So my most famous line is “Get Off The Phone” LOL!

Eliana

Eliana

I am the first Accounabilty tutor here at PSU!

I was surprised to discover that project based classes are preferable to me

kris

kris

I usually like lecture based courses or ones that are 50/50, but through graphic design classes becoming basically just project and feedback by year 3, I’ve learned that I really enjoy that way of learning. I didn’t think I would, but it actually Is reall

I have been dreaming about being a teacher since I was in the tenth grade and I had a teacher so awful that I wanted to become a good teacher JUST TO SPITE HER.

Hannah Hounsell

Hannah Hounsell

My teacher frequently lost our assignments. One time, I put together a really personal speech about how people with mental illness shouldn’t be imprisoned (which I had experience with one of my family members) and my teacher lost my entire submission and

I learn best through auditory stimuli and repetitive note taking

Natalie

Natalie

I have always had trouble learning in classes that were super hands on or where you learn by doing. Lectures have always been the easiest for me to digest. (fun fact: I rewrite and revise my notes a total of three times)

I spent a whole school year researching in a 5th grade classroom and creating my very own lessons.

lauren

lauren

I was in an AP class that had us pick a topic that interested us…I picked how certain activities could help a teacher to identify the status of the sense of self of a child while they are in a school setting.

I used to be a in the nursing major here at PSU

Shannon

Shannon

I came to Plymouth as a nursing student, then changed to the IDS program my second year, because I wanted a role in healthcare that aligned more with my personal values and ethics.