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 have four jobs

Kelsey Donnelly

Kelsey Donnelly

1) I oversee the professional advisors in the center or student success
2) I am a student success coach
3) I teach TWO
4) I have own business selling USDA organic CBD :D

It’s been a while since I have been in the classroom but I do know the FLEXIBILITY is still key, or even more so now!

Lindsay Page

Lindsay Page

n/a

Rube Goldberg Machines are fun. I use them to introduce my students to the Habits of Mind and as an icebreaker.

Megan Heidenreich

Megan Heidenreich

Students are put in groups and given dominoes, matchbox car tracks, popsicle sticks, and marbles. They can use anything they like to build their machine. Then we talk about the habits of mind and students identify how they used them during the activity

zoom classes with faces hidden are really really hard…

Suzanne Gaulocher

Suzanne Gaulocher

I learned so much last year about my teaching style and reflected that I so appreciate in person learning.

I took an oath to be a judge for the Kansas City BBQ Society…in Boston

Scott

Scott

I’m FROM KC, but only starting cooking BBQ when I moved here and couldn’t get it easily. When I found out they actually have contests for this, I decided to become a judge. After the class, they found a compass, made us face KC, and take an oath that ended in “…truth, justice, and excellence in BBQ forever, and ever, and ever.”

Maybe developing a fashion course for PSU

Sarah Parrish

Sarah Parrish

An IDS Fashion major inspired me to think about how Art History skills, methods, and content can also be taught through fashion history and theory. If you have students interested in this endeavor let me know, I would love their input!

I am new(ish) to teaching higher education. But, my skills from my field experience have come in very helpful in the last 2 years.

Kim Livingstone

Kim Livingstone

I am a trained social worker and have found that my social work skills have been super helpful in helping me teach during covid.

Zoom Classes!

Manisha

Manisha

I am a person who have to be in a class and talk with my professors and friends. Couple semesters were very tough for me but still managed to learn so many things and experience new things.

I worked as an EMT for 7 years.

Jenn K

Jenn K

I worked as an EMT for an ambulance company and we responded to emergency calls in both Vermont and New Hampshire. I became an EMT so I could have interesting things to write about later in my life. LOL.

I was able to teach a Running Composition class and discovered that I was in better shape than most of the students!

Pete Miller

Pete Miller

We had group runs and I found myself hanging back to help those who had trouble staying up. I once did a one on one run with a student and he was way ahead of me until we hit a big hill, then he folded. All of this gave students (and me!) plenty of material to write about, which was the point of it all.