2012
Talking with Faculty About Cognitive Science & Learning (POD Essays on Teaching Excellence)
Feb. 16, 2012—CFT Assistant Director Nancy Chick previews an essay by John Girash, Harvard University, appearing in Essays on Teaching Excellence published by the Professional and Organizational Network in Higher Education. In “Talking with Faculty About Cognitive Science & Learning,” one of the essays in POD’s new Essays on Teaching Excellence, John Girash of Harvard connects the brain...
Upcoming Event: Grading Effectively & Efficiently
Feb. 15, 2012—Join us for this upcoming teaching workshop! Grading Effectively & Efficiently Date & Time: February 22, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Leanna Fuller, Graduate Teaching Fellow Format: Teaching Workshop Audience: Graduate Students and Post-Docs Grading can be a source of stress for instructors. How do you know if you’re being fair in your assessment of...
Engaging Students in Large Lectures
Feb. 14, 2012—by CFT Director Derek Bruff I’m leading a workshop in the School of Nursing this morning on the topic of teaching large lecture classes. I’m using a Prezi for the workshop, and I’ve embedded it below. You can click the forward button to move through the Prezi, or use your mouse to zoom and pan...
A Few Examples of Teaching with Clickers
Feb. 14, 2012—by CFT Director Derek Bruff I’m teaching a statistics course for engineering students in the math department this spring. With 73 students in the course, it’s keeping me busy, but I think it’s important that the CFT director (and assistant directors) are in the classroom here at Vanderbilt. Teaching lets us directly support the teaching...
CFT Focuses on SoTL This Spring
Feb. 13, 2012—Join us next week for What is SoTL, the first event (of three this spring) focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning. In this first discussion, What is SoTL, CFT Assistant Director Nancy Chick along with a handful of Vanderbilt faculty and graduate students, will help you explore how you might adopt a SoTL...
GradSTEP recap: Teaching Portfolios
Feb. 12, 2012—This blog post is written by Leanna Fuller, CFT Senior Graduate Teaching Fellow. Leanna led the Teaching Portfolio session at GradSTEP on January 21, 2012. I began my GradSTEP session on teaching portfolios by inviting participants to wrestle with the following question: “Who are you in the classroom?” By asking this question, I wanted to...
Why Work for us as a Graduate Student: Work Environment
Feb. 10, 2012—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 students outside of their department or program, and develop expertise in training and supporting new TAs. ...
Upcoming Event: What is SoTL?
Feb. 9, 2012—Join us for this upcoming Conversation on Teaching! What is SoTL? Date & Time: February 16, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Nancy Chick, Assistant Director Format: Conversation on Teaching Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is a way of treating teaching as a scholarly activity...
Principles and Practices for Investigating Student Learning
Feb. 7, 2012—by CFT Director Derek Bruff I’m giving a talk today at the School of Medicine as part of the Medical Education Grand Rounds sponsored by the Office for Teaching and Learning in Medicine and the Academy for Excellence in Teaching. The talk is titled “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Principles and Practices for Investigating...
From the Stacks…
Feb. 7, 2012—The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration and Impact By Pat Hutchings, Mary Taylor Huber, and Anthony Ciccone From the publisher… The authors, all of whom continue to be involved in this work, imagine a future “where the scholarship of teaching and learning is not seen as the discrete project or special initiative,...