Thank You Open Classroom Hosts!
On September 5th and 6th the Center for Teaching hosted our program, The Open Classroom: Two Days of Teaching Visits, for the second year. The event featured 50 different hosts who graciously and bravely opened their classrooms to a total of over 75 visitors. This gave the visitors the valuable opportunity to observe high quality teaching, discuss common challenges with an informal mentor, and refine their practice.
At the end of the two days, the CFT hosted a reception for all of the hosts and visitors with some structured dialogue about lessons learned from the visits. The rich conversation that ensued revealed many insights from a range of faculty perspectives across the disciplines about anything from creative assignments to discussion leading, from student engagement techniques to educational technology. In these discussions, we hope that the hosts and visitors alike found an opportunity to surpass the pedagogical isolation of day-to-day teaching, and find support and mentorship in a community of their peers.
We sincerely want to thank the many hosts (listed below) who participated in the event for their exemplary teaching and for being willing to serve as sage mentors to their colleagues. Your example and the community you help us to build through this program helps to sustain us at the CFT and to fulfill the teaching mission of Vanderbilt. Thank you.
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Andrew Hostetler Doug Fisher Catherine McTamaney Larisa DeSantis Gautam Biswas Rory Dicker Richard Blackett Jeffrey Tlumak Brent Evans Michelle Sulikowski Alexandra Sargent Capps Tim Vogus Alan Wiseman Sheri Shaneyfelt Susan Verberne-Sutton Jane Landers |
Chalene Helmuth James Fraser Mark Wollaeger Joel Harrington David Lewis Paul Stob Robert Barsky LaTonya Trotter Anjali Forber-Pratt Bill Christie Douglas Schmidt Virginia Scott Todd Graham Marshall Eakin Ellen Armour |
Nathalie Porter Paul Laibinis Michael Bess Craig Smith Lily Claiborne Jessie Hock Lori Troxel Julie Johnson Nilanjan Sarkar Katherine Crawford Steve Buckles Shaul Kelner Bonnie Dow Melanie Hundley Christin Essin |
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