Strategies for Grading Workshop: Additional Resources

September 13, 2012 — CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow, Beth Koontz, offers additional resources on grading and assessing student work. The CFT recently hosted a teaching workshop on Effective and Efficient Grading focusing on the purposes of grading and how to grade in ways that...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Active Learning, Assessment, Course Design, Grading, Student Motivation
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Episode 30 – Student Learning on Display: Spinach-Powered Solar Cells

May 4, 2012 — In an effort to better understand student learning, particularly deep learning, as it occurs at Vanderbilt, the CFT is producing a special series of podcasts highlighting student projects across a variety of disciplines. In this episode we join CFT Director...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Active Learning, STEM, Student Motivation, Student Projects, Team-Based Learning
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Fostering Student Engagement- NSSE Annual Results 2011

November 18, 2011 — Last spring, about 2.1 million students at more than 750 colleges and universities were invited to report on their in- and out-of-class learning experiences by completing the NSSE survey. The near-record number of participating institutions signifies continued interest in student...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Assessment, Student Expectations, Student Motivation
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Teaching Outside the Classroom – Part Two

May 4, 2011 — by John Morrell Graduate Teaching Fellow, CFT On April 5, 2011, the Center for Teaching hosted a “Conversation on Teaching” on the topic of “Teaching Outside the Classroom.” This is the second installment of a two-part blog post covering the...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Active Learning, Pedagogical Theory, STEM, Student Motivation, Sustainability
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Teaching Outside the Classroom – Part One

April 29, 2011 — by John Morrell Graduate Teaching Fellow, CFT On April 5, 2011, the Center for Teaching hosted a “Conversation on Teaching” on the topic of “Teaching Outside the Classroom.”  This is the first installment of a two-part blog post covering the...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Active Learning, Pedagogical Theory, STEM, Student Motivation, Sustainability
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From a Student’s View: Freedom and Structure within a Course

February 21, 2011 — This is a guest post by Mara Truslow, Vanderbilt Class of 2013 and Ingram Scholar. The post is part of our spring “From a Student’s View” blog series. We occasionally feature guest posts here on the blog as part of...... KEEP READING »

Tags: From a Student's View, Guest Post, Student Expectations, Student Motivation
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Ideas for Motivating Students

November 30, 2010 — By Lily Claiborne, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow In the “Motivating Students” workshop on October 26, 2010, a group of grad students and postdocs discussed what, as teachers, we wished motivated students and what actually motivates them in practice.  We established...... KEEP READING »

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Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty

October 21, 2010 — Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty by Elizabeth F. Barkley (Jossey-Bass, 2010) From the publisher… Keeping students involved, motivated, and actively learning is challenging educators across the country,yet good advice on how to accomplish this has not been...... KEEP READING »

Tags: Active Learning, Student Motivation
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10/26 Workshop: Motivating Students

October 19, 2010 — Time & Date: 4:10—5:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 26 Facilitator: Graduate Teaching Fellow, CFT Audience: Graduate and Professional Students and Post-docs Motivating students to engage in learning requires a “learner-centered” experience, in which the instructor facilitates learners’ interactive engagement with course...... KEEP READING »

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Motivating Students with Application Projects and Poster Sessions

July 23, 2010 — CFT assistant director Derek Bruff has another guest post on ProfHacker today: “Motivating Students with Application Projects and Poster Sessions.”  In the post, Derek describes an assignment he typically gives in his more “applied” math courses, an application project that...... KEEP READING »

Tags: ProfHacker, STEM, Student Motivation, Student Projects
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