Students often struggle with making connections between what they have learned in the past with what is being studied in a current class. While faculty often know the connections immediately, our students don't easily see them. There is a wide range of research on how helping students access this prior knowledge helps them make connections between the content they have learned previously and what is going on in class that day. For this conversation we will start with this resource from Cornell University on assessing prior knowledge<https://teaching.cornell.edu/spring-teaching-resources/assessment-evaluation/assessing-prior-knowledge> and how to help students make connections between that prior knowledge and what you are working on in class. This can be especially useful as we prepare for the end of the semester and you have conversations with your students about how to access the knowledge they have learned in your course to prepare for finals. For a deeper dive into this conversation, please see these resources from Carnegie Mellon University<https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/teach/priorknowledge.html> and UC Berkeley<https://dls.berkeley.edu/services/course-design-tools/dls-core-template-getting-started/include-formative-assessments> around prior knowledge. The Talking Teaching discussions are a space to connect and talk about what's new in the world of teaching and learning. Each session will have a focus on a specific topic but can also be a space to talk about what is happening in the classroom and identify new modalities to explore. This is our new iteration of the Teaching Breakfast. We will continue to meet both in person and virtually, so if you feel comfortable participating in person, we'd love to have you in the room; if you would rather meet via Teams, join from your computer. These sessions will continue to be a place to come together to talk about teaching and hopefully share a few questions and get a few answers. Join us in person in the Oneonta Room (just past the Experiential Learning Center on the first floor of Hunt Union) or virtually in the Talking Teaching teams space<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MjAxOWIwZWEtYTdhMi00NGM1LTlmZTUtZjdhZDQ2OTNmM2Uz%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>. We look discussing ways to help your students be more confident with their own learning in your classroom. We hope to see you on Thursday morning for Talking Teaching (November 30) if you can make it! Chilton Chilton Reynolds Director, The Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning & Scholarship The Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning & Scholarship SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta NY 13820 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Phone: 607-436-2673