2015
Lectures and Visual Thinking in #STEMTeaching
Feb. 5, 2015—by Derek Bruff, CFT Director The Center for Teaching has recently started sharing on its YouTube channel videos created for last fall’s open online course, “An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching.” Vivian Finch, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow and queen of social media here at the CFT, is blogging about these videos in a series...
Thinking STEM, Teaching STEM: A Blog Series
Feb. 5, 2015—By Vivian Finch, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow The CFT is now in the third week of the weekly blog series, “Thinking STEM, Teaching STEM,” as a way to spotlight some of the videos produced at Vanderbilt for the CIRTL MOOC course, “An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching,” which drew on the expertise of experienced STEM...
Upcoming Faculty Teaching Visit with Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Wednesday, February 18th
Feb. 4, 2015—BME 260: Analysis of Biomedical Data Anita Mahadevan-Jansen is a professor of Biomedical Engineering and director of CIRTL-at-Vanderbilt, an initiative focused on professional development of STEM graduate students and post-docs around teaching. In BME 260, Anita focuses on helping students develop transferable skills in statistics that they can use to answer a variety of questions...
Thinking STEM, Teaching STEM: A Blog Series
Jan. 29, 2015—By Vivian Finch, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow The CFT is in the second week of a new weekly blog series, “Thinking STEM, Teaching STEM,” as a way to spotlight some of the videos produced at Vanderbilt for the CIRTL MOOC course, “An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching,” which drew on the expertise of experienced STEM...
Upcoming Faculty Teaching Visit with Paul Kramer, Associate Professor of History Thursday, February 12th
Jan. 29, 2015—HIST 272: Debating America in the World Paul Kramer is an associate professor of history and author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and the Philippines. In HIST 272, he guides upper level undergraduates as they consider the role of the United States in the world, considering issues of world leadership,...
Upcoming Converstation on Teaching with Dr. James Rhem Executive Editor, the National Teaching & Learning Forum: THE TEACHER IN THE MOVIES
Jan. 29, 2015—The Teacher in the Movies Friday, January 30th 2:30-4:00 Vanderbilt Center for Teaching 1114 19th Ave. South. 3rd Floor James Rhem, Ph.D. Executive Editor, The National Teaching and Learning Forum Everyone carries an image of the teacher within them. Just as everyone brings “prior experience” to any relationship, every new teacher starts out on his...
Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow Spotlight: John Bradley
Jan. 26, 2015—Each month, the CFT Newsletter highlights the work of our Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, John Bradley, Senior Lecturer in English, talks about his teaching philosophy and interests: “Whether in a one-on-one conference with a student in the Writing Studio or in the literature classroom, I aim to help my students harness the...
Thinking STEM, Teaching STEM: A Blog Series
Jan. 23, 2015—By Vivian Finch, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow Last fall Vanderbilt University partnered with the CIRTL Network and several other universities to create an open, online course for future and current STEM faculty, hosted on Coursera, titled “An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching.” Drawing upon the expertise of experienced STEM faculty, educational researchers, and representatives of university...
CIRTL Network Development Opportunity
Jan. 23, 2015—The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is an NSF Center for Learning and Teaching in higher education. CIRTL has opened registration for upcoming course opportunities. This is a free, online event for grad students and post-docs in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) interested in faculty careers. ...
From the Stacks…
Jan. 21, 2015—Just in Time Teaching: Across the Disciplines, and Across the Academy by Scott Simkins Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) is a pedagogical approach that requires students to answer questions related to an upcoming class a few hours beforehand, using an online course management system. Students responses to JiTT questions make gaps in their learning visible to the...