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!

Teachers make the difference in a class, not the material.

Rhiannon Black

Rhiannon Black

The best class I have ever taken was a topic I loved but she was also the best teacher I ever had, she truly cared about her students and their mental health. I took another class this past semester about a topic I was neutral with and ended up hating the

My favorite and most impactful classes I’ve taken have been ones where teachers have brought their own experiences and stories to class.

Ellie Wilson

Ellie Wilson

I think this helps connect classes to real life and shows how the knowledge we are learning can be used day to day.

Teaching and Learning fact. Students appreciate imperfect free resources…

Metty Woldemariam

Metty Woldemariam

I used a couple of texts over Spring (one I had used a small section of before) because they were free. I thought there would be more resentment at broken links and imperfect material that I supplemented with notes. On the contrary, students thought the t

I once chose a textbook for a class because it was the worst one I could find.

Robin DeRosa

Robin DeRosa

I chose a horrible textbook to see if students would be more critically engaged if they knew they had to question and consider everything they learned, even from the “authoritative” voice of our core textbook. I actually think it worked great! They would

One of the central texts to my teaching career is a book by Peter Elbow called “Writing without Teachers”

Sean Robinson

Sean Robinson

“Writing without Teachers” broke my brain as an undergrad. In it, Elbow talks about centering students and removing the idea of the “teacher” from the space, instead focusing on students growing together as a group, and the “teacher” being a gardener or a