Hello all! I hope you are all well and staying sane in these extraordinary times. In an effort to maintain some normalcy the TLTC and Faculty Center are holding Teaching Breakfasts every week throughout the semester as a place to come together to talk about the new modalities you are using to teach and hopefully share and get a few answers. And to help include more in the discussion, we are continuing to offer two sessions each week to come together. This week we will meet both in-person and online in our the Teams space for the following sessions: * Coffee Break, Wednesday afternoons, 2:00-3:00pm: Fitzelle Faculty Lounge, Room 159 and on the Coffee Chat Teams space<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZGQ2ZGY0NmQtOGMwYS00ZDUwLTkyNmYtYmVmMTM4NmQ5NDg4%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22b2c9b1a8-d1ad-4c9f-9172-728a8c08eb65%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22acdbd4c6-8ceb-4ccb-b54d-35c4ab20321f%22%7d>. * Teaching Breakfast, Thursday mornings, 8:30-10:00am: Butternut Room, Hunt Union (just past Starbucks) and on the Teaching Breakfast Teams space<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NDgzZTgyZTYtODEzOC00ZThjLWFjZDktZDZmYTE3OWZhMGIw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22b2c9b1a8-d1ad-4c9f-9172-728a8c08eb65%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22acdbd4c6-8ceb-4ccb-b54d-35c4ab20321f%22%7d>. If you are free at any point on Wednesday (Nov. 3) or Thursday (Nov. 4), please feel free to join the conversation. This week we will be exploring what are the skills needed to be an effective teacher. This is a reading from the Chronicle of Higher Education: * The Damaging Myth of the Natural Teacher<https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-damaging-myth-of-the-natural-teacher?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_3099041_nl_Teaching_date_20211028&cid=te&source=&sourceid=> - The author of this article explores some of the reasons why expanding your teaching skills hasn't traditionally been rewarded on college campuses and how some campuses are starting to build more support for effective teaching into the culture of the campus. We look forward to talking more about ways we all can support effective teaching on our campus and the ways this needs to be supported in our campus culture. See you Wednesday (Coffee Break) or Thursday (Teaching Breakfast) if you can make it! Chilton Chilton Reynolds TLTC Interim Coordinator COIL Campus Coordinator Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC) SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta NY 13820 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Phone: 607-436-2673