The Center for Teaching shares Vanderbilt University’s commitment to excellence in teaching and learning. We honor this commitment by promoting teaching and learning as ongoing and collaborative processes of inquiry, experimentation, and reflection. Our programs and services are available to the entire university’s teaching community, including full-time and part-time faculty, teaching assistants, post-doctoral fellows, and anyone else involved in the instructional process at Vanderbilt.
From the Center for Teaching Blog
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January 27, 2012 — Why Work For Us as a Graduate Student: Varied and Challenging Work
Each spring the Center for Teaching (CFT) recruits graduate students and post-docs to work at the Center for the following school year. These positions are great opportunities for graduate students to refine their teaching and presentation skills, network with graduate...
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January 26, 2012 — Upcoming Event: Teaching with Clickers
Join us for this upcoming Teaching Workshop! Teaching with Clickers Date & Time: February 2, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Dan Morrison, Graduate Teaching Fellow Format: Teaching Workshop Audience: Graduate Students and Post-Docs Classroom response systems (“clickers”) are technologies that enable teachers to...
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January 25, 2012 — Tell and Show: Resources from a Workshop on Images in Presentations
This afternoon, CFT staff Derek Bruff and Rhett McDaniel are facilitating a workshop titled “Tell and Show: Why and How to Use Images in Presentations.” Below you’ll find the visuals from the first part of this workshop. Click the arrow...
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January 25, 2012 — Upcoming workshops address topics Vanderbilt TAs need to know about
Clickers, Clickers Everywhere Clickers are popping up in classrooms across the university – in physics, math, psychology, biomedical engineering – and other universities are seeing the same increase in use. And it’s easy to see why – clickers have been...
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January 24, 2012 — Upcoming Event: Strategies and Practices for Effective Discussion Leading
Join us for this upcoming Conversation on Teaching! Strategies and Practices for Effective Discussion Leading Date & Time: January 30, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Milt Cox, Educational Consultant Format: Conversation on Teaching Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff Panel:...
