Save the Date: GradSTEP January 26, 2013
Dec. 3, 2012—Held in January each year, GradSTEP provides several workshops and discussions on teaching, learning, and professional development issues across the disciplines. All Vanderbilt graduate and professional students, as well as post-doctoral fellows, are invited to attend. GradSTEP 2013 will focus on the theme Beyond Four Walls: Transcending the Classroom and will be held Saturday, January...
Social Pedagogies at Vanderbilt’s CSLS
Nov. 30, 2012—CFT director Derek Bruff is giving a talk on “social pedagogies” at Vanderbilt’s Center for Second Language Studies. Below you’ll find his Prezi. You can move through the Prezi by clicking on the forward button, or pan and zoom freely across the canvas using your mouse. Social Pedagogies on Prezi
Ask Professor Pedagogy: A Mountain of Grading
Nov. 30, 2012—Ask Professor Pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by Center for Teaching staff. One aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly those from Vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. If you have a question that you’d like...
From a Student’s View: Group Work
Nov. 28, 2012—This is a guest post by Erin Baldwin, Vanderbilt Class of 2014, College of Arts and Sciences. The post is part of our ongoing “From a Student’s View” blog series. We occasionally feature guest posts here on the blog as part of our efforts to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning among Vanderbilt faculty, students,...
Teaching with MOOCs: Four Cases
Nov. 26, 2012—by Derek Bruff, CFT Director Last month in a blog post titled “Better Than a Textbook?“, I noted that some faculty find it easier to think about the massive open online courses (MOOCs) provided by vendors like Coursera as “super-textbooks” than as actual courses. Earlier this month, Vanderbilt computer science professor Doug Fisher wrote a...
Getting to Know Coursera: Assessments
Nov. 26, 2012—by Katie McEwen, graduate assistant So far in our discussion of common features in Coursera, we’ve focused on two methods of presenting content online: video lectures and video discussions. Certainly, students (whether online or in the traditional classroom) benefit from coherent, clearly sequenced, thoughtful and thought-provoking discussions and lectures. But, just as certainly, assessing comprehension,...
Need Help Revising A Teaching Statement?
Nov. 21, 2012—CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow, Beth Koontz, reflects on how to revise a teaching statement as the job-market season begins. So, for whatever reason, you have written a teaching statement. However, that teaching statement may be from a long time ago, or it may not be an accurate representation of your experience since then. For me,...
Junior Faculty: Visit Leigh Gilchrist’s HOD class at next week’s teaching visit
Nov. 19, 2012—A Teaching Visit involves a small group of faculty who observe a colleague’s class (on a selected day), followed by an hour of conversation about what was observed, particularly shared teaching challenges. The Center for Teaching has hosted Teaching Visits for many years and they have been among the most productive and helpful events we...
Ask Professor Pedagogy: Lab Sessions
Nov. 16, 2012—Ask Professor Pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by Center for Teaching staff. One aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly those from Vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. If you have a question that you’d like...
Graduate School workshop: “Academic Job Search & Interview” on Friday 11/16
Nov. 14, 2012—To better assist Graduate School students with preparing for their career searches, whether in academia, business/industry, non-profit sector or government, new services are now offered by the Graduate School beginning this fall. On Friday, November 16 from 3:00-4:30 Ruth Schemmer will be offering “Academic Job Search & Interview” in 113 Wilson. The workshop workshop will cover...