2010
9/23 Workshop: Getting Ready for Review: Reflecting On and Documenting Your Teaching
Sep. 16, 2010—Time & Date: 4:10 – 5:30 p.m., Thursday, September 23 Facilitator: Allison Pingree, Director, CFT Audience: Faculty only As a new semester begins, now is a great time to make plans for reflecting on and documenting your teaching throughout the year. In this interactive, hands-on session, we’ll explore what, when, how, for whom, and why...
Wireless in the Classroom – Some Resources
Sep. 14, 2010—Below you’ll find some resources relevant to today’s CFT workshop, “Wireless in the Classroom: Is a Ban on Student Laptop Use During Class a Good Idea?” CFT “Wireless in the Classroom” Teaching Guide – This guide includes questions to consider when developing course policies about wireless in the classroom, as well as sample syllabus statements...
CIRTL Coffee Hour, September 16 – The CIRTL Network Exchange
Sep. 13, 2010—Since Vanderbilt is a member of the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) Network, Vanderbilt graduate students and post-docs in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics are eligible to apply to participate in the CIRTL Network Exchange. “Exchange students” are funded by CIRTL to visit other campuses in the CIRTL Network (Howard,...
9/20 Workshop: Grading with Rigor
Sep. 13, 2010—Time & Date: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m., Monday, September 20 Facilitator: Kat Baker, Assistant Director, CFT Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, and Post-docs Panelists: Bonnie Dow, Communication Studies; Ken Schriver, Physics & Astronomy; and Michelle Sulikowski, Chemistry In this session, we will consider how to design and grade assessments that foster student learning and...
Episode 23 – John C. Ayers on Sustainability Course Design
Sep. 10, 2010—In this episode, we feature John Ayers from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. We join the discussion as he begins the discussion about the design and development of his sustainability course. He talks about student projects, gives examples of the topic areas the course includes, and suggests ways to present the facts in...
Grading in Red Ink a Bad Thing?
Sep. 10, 2010—According to a study in the European Journal of Social Psychology reported on NPR, instructors who grade with red pens tend to grade more harshly than instructors who grade using blue pens. Here’s Abraham Rutchick from Cal State-Northridge: And just before [the subjects] start, they’re given a pen with which to do the corrections and...
9/15 Workshop: Discussion Leading
Sep. 8, 2010—Time & Date:4:10—5:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 15 Facilitator: Graduate Teaching Fellow, CFT Audience: Graduate and Professional Students and Post-docs Effective discussions can provoke profound learning, yet they can be challenging to create and sustain. In this interactive session, we will explore strategies for initiating discussions and keeping them lively. Questions considered will include: What are...
9/14 Workshop: Wireless in the Classroom: Is a Ban on Student Laptop Use During Class a Good Idea?
Sep. 7, 2010—Time & Date: 4:10 – 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 14 Facilitator:Derek Bruff, Assistant Director, CFT Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff Panelists: Cherrie Clark, Managerial Studies Jim Lovensheimer, Music History and Literature; Pearl Sims, Leadership, Policy, & Organizations Recent stories from the Washington Post and NPR describe choices by university instructors to...
New CFT Guide on Contemplative Pedagogy
Sep. 6, 2010—As part of the CFT’s ongoing work on contemplative pedagogy, including a Contemplative Pedagogy “working group” open to faculty and graduate students, we’ve developed a new contemplative pedagogy teaching guide. The guide includes a discussion of contemplation’s role in teaching and a variety of contemplative activities for the classroom, including guided meditation, listening, beholding, journaling,...
CFT Announces Inaugural Cohort of Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows
Sep. 3, 2010—This year, the Center for Teaching is proud to welcome its inaugural cohort of eight Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. They include Philip Ackerman-Lieberman (Jewish Studies and Law), Kimberly D. Bess (Human and Organizational Development), Chris Bennett (Economics), Shaul Kelner (Sociology), Jinah Kim (History of Art), Haoxiang Luo (Mechanical Engineering), Sean Polyn (Psychology) and Lijun Song...