{"id":11026,"date":"2025-02-23T11:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=11026"},"modified":"2025-02-23T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:15:58","slug":"2025ambassador-sciandra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/engage\/ambassadorprogram\/ambassadors\/2025ambassador-sciandra\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2025: Niagara &#8211; Salvatore Sciandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10966\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10966\" src=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SSciandra_Niagara_photo-350.png\" alt=\"Salvatore Sciandra headshot\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SSciandra_Niagara_photo-350.png 350w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SSciandra_Niagara_photo-350-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SSciandra_Niagara_photo-350-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salvatore Sciandra<br \/>SUNY Niagara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Salvatore Sciandra<\/strong> is a professor of Mathematics at SUNY Niagara (formally Niagara County Community College) since 2001 and Division Chair of the Business and STEM Department since 2017.\u00a0 He is graduate of the State University College at Buffalo with a Bachelor\u2019s of Science in Secondary Mathematics and Master of Science in Education in Mathematics.\u00a0 Salvatore is also an ancillary publisher with Pearson Publishing Co. creating and editing instructor and student solutions manuals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I currently teach both Intermediate Algebra and Applied Calculus online and have for over a decade.\u00a0 Although these courses can be difficult for some students, having to follow the course schedule and deadlines, but for most it grants the flexibility and advantages to be able to work on the course on their own timeframe which may be late at night or very early in the morning around jobs and family commitments.\u00a0 Over the years I have incorporated many new resources to help my students get the most out of these courses. Everything from solution videos to understanding mathematical processes, to creating new screen shot videos to welcome my students to the course and offering a Problem Set assignment that mocks the Exams that can be taken multiple times to ensure success.\u00a0 I have found that a well laid out course and a getting started module of basic information is the key for my students to be able to navigate the course successfully.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvatore Sciandra is a professor of Mathematics at SUNY Niagara (formally Niagara County Community College) since 2001 and Division Chair of the Business and STEM Department since 2017.\u00a0 He is graduate of the State University College at Buffalo with a Bachelor\u2019s of Science in Secondary Mathematics and Master of Science in Education in Mathematics.\u00a0 Salvatore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"parent":10809,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11026","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11027,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11026\/revisions\/11027"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}