The Mindful PhD: How It Works, IV
Nov. 6, 2013—by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director There are few silver bullets in teaching and learning, but a handful of strategies are so grounded in evidence that I sometimes feel like shouting from rooftops. One is metacognition.* Another is how students view their own intelligence. Carol Dweck describes it as having either a “fixed mindset” (believing...
Save the Date: A Celebration of Learning on April 21, 2014
Nov. 6, 2013—The final event in the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s “Students as Producers” theme year will be a Celebration of Learning on April 21, 2014, in Alumni Hall. The event, held from 3 to 6 p.m. on the last day of spring classes, will feature students and the products of their learning experiences in courses at...
MOOCs on Evidence-Based Teaching Practices for Future STEM Faculty: A $750K NSF WIDER Grant
Nov. 4, 2013—by Derek Bruff, CFT Director I’m pleased to announce that the Center for Teaching will be part of a $750,000, three-year, multi-institution National Science Foundation WIDER grant supporting the creation of two MOOCs (massive open online courses) on evidence-based teaching practices for future STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) faculty. I am one of the...
Speaking into Humanity: French Students as Producers
Nov. 4, 2013—by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director The CFT’s theme this year, “Students as Producers,” has given me the opportunity to talk with some talented and thoughtful colleagues across campus. On October 24, I brought together three of them to have a conversation on teaching about “Producing, Performing, & Creating Learning across the Humanities: Models of...
Students as Producers: Bringing the Digital into (and out of) the Humanities Classroom #THATCampVU
Nov. 1, 2013—by Derek Bruff, CFT Director I’m also giving a workshop today at THATCamp Vanderbilt. The session is titled “Students as Producers: Bringing the Digital into (and out of) the Humanities Classroom,” and it’s co-presented with Vivian Finch, doctoral student in German and the CFT’s HASTAC Scholar. Below you’ll find the Prezi we’re using. Click on...
Show and Tell: More Visual Presentations
Nov. 1, 2013—by Derek Bruff, CFT Director I’m giving a presentation later today on campus on effective multimedia presentations, particularly in the classroom context. Since I like to give participants in my sessions access to my slides at the start of those sessions, I’m posting my slides here on the CFT blog. I’m not using slides, of...
The Mindful PhD: How It Works, III
Oct. 31, 2013—by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director A man riding a horse approaches a man standing by the side of the road. The bystander asks where the rider is going, and the rider responds, “‘I don’t know. Ask the horse’” (Tan, 2012, p. 104). Chade-Meng Tan tells this story to illustrate the notion of emotional regulation,...
Self-Authoring Community Activism:
Women & Gender Studies Students as Producers
Oct. 30, 2013—by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director The CFT’s theme this year, “Students as Producers,” has given me the opportunity to talk with some talented and thoughtful colleagues across campus. On October 24, I brought together three of them to have a conversation on teaching about “Producing, Performing, & Creating Learning across the Humanities: Models of...
Save the Date: A Celebration of Learning on April 21, 2014
Oct. 30, 2013—The final event in the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s “Students as Producers” theme year will be a Celebration of Learning on April 21, 2014, in Alumni Hall. The event, held from 3 to 6 p.m. on the last day of spring classes, will feature students and the products of their learning experiences in courses at...
Class Time Reconsidered: Making the Most of 150 Minutes a Week
Oct. 29, 2013—by Derek Bruff, CFT Director. Cross-posted from Derek’s blog, Agile Learning. I spent last Friday in sunny Denver, Colorado, catching up with my grad school colleague Nick Galatos and giving a talk on, well, the flipped classroom for the University of Denver mathematics department. I hesitate to use the term “flipped classroom” because I had...