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Thinking STEM, Teaching STEM: A Blog Series
Feb. 12, 2015—By Vivian Finch, CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow The CFT is now in the fourth 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 Virtual Hangout Offers Information for Grad Students Interested in Working at the CFT
Feb. 9, 2015—Attention, Vandy grad students! Do you enjoy teaching? Do you look forward to those days when your advisor is out of town and you can take over her class for a day? Are you interested in the research on teaching and learning? If you answered a resounding “yes!” to one or more of those questions,...
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...
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...
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...
A New Guide on Teaching Students with Disabilities
Jan. 20, 2015—Students of all abilities and backgrounds want classrooms that are inclusive and convey respect. For those students with disabilities, the classroom setting may present certain challenges that need accommodation and consideration. The Center for Teaching has embarked upon a theme year on Teaching, Difference, and Power as a way to explore many of the challenges...
Seminar on Effective Teaching Strategies for International Faculty
Jan. 7, 2015—Vanderbilt’s English Language Center is offering a seminar on effective teaching strategies for international faculty. Targeted toward faculty members who have a first language other than English, the seminar will help participants hone their teaching skills for the US university classroom context. The program will include interactive sessions that give participants opportunities to develop and...
When Words Won’t Suffice
Oct. 29, 2014—By Ben Galina, Graduate Teaching Fellow Monday, November 3rd at 7:15pm, our learning community will meet at the Center for Teaching to discuss microagressions. For more information, stop by the CFT, check out our website, or email me or my co-facilitator, Brielle Harbin, for more information.
THATCamp Vanderbilt:
Oct. 22, 2014—The third annual THATCamp Vanderbilt will occur this Friday and Saturday, October 24 and 25, at the Vanderbilt Curb Center, located at 1801 Edgehill Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212. The event is free and open to the public. Visit the THATCamp Vanderbilt website to see the latest schedule developments and to register: http://vanderbiltuniversity2014.thatcamp.org/ THATCamp, which stands for...
BOLD Fellows Program is Accepting Applications
Oct. 13, 2014—We are recruiting graduate students to participate in the BOLD Fellows program beginning in January 2015. The BOLD Fellows program is designed to help graduate student/faculty teams build expertise in developing online instructional modules grounded in good course design principles and our understanding of how people learn. STEM faculty members partner with graduate students or postdocs to design and...