Upcoming: Teaching Outside the Classroom (April 5)
Mar. 29, 2011—Time & Date: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 5 Location: CFT Workshop, Center for Teaching Facilitators: Leanna Fuller, Graduate Teaching Fellow, CFT; John Morrell, Graduate Teaching Fellow, CFT; & Joe Bandy, Assistant Director, CFT Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs Panelists: Steve Baskauf, Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences Chalene Helmuth, Senior Lecturer of...
Smile! You’re on Camera!
Mar. 25, 2011—An effective way to improve your teaching is to take advantage of our digital video consultation. A member of the Center staff will film you while teaching, and then a consultant will review the digital video with you to identify strengths and areas for improvement. Though most of us cringe at the idea of being...
Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow Spotlight: Haoxiang Luo
Mar. 24, 2011—Each month, the CFT Blog highlights the work of our Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Haoxiang Luo, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering talks about his teaching philosophy and interests. “I believe that theoretical concepts and applications should go hand in hand, particularly for engineering students.” Having taught for three years about fluid mechanics at...
Upcoming Teaching Workshop: Service Learning Basics: Engaging Students, Building Community (March 31)
Mar. 24, 2011—Time & Date: 4:15-5:45pm, Thursday, March 31 Location: CFT Workshop Space, Center for Teaching Facilitator: Joe Bandy, Assistant Director, CFT Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, and Post-docs Service learning is a pedagogy that combines learning goals and community service in ways that can enhance both student development and the common good. For students, service...
From a Student’s View: Fair Attendence Policies
Mar. 21, 2011—This is a guest post by Erin Baldwin, Vanderbilt Class of 2014. The post is part of our spring “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, and staff. We recognize that...
CIRTL Coffee Hour March 17 – The Academic Interview
Mar. 16, 2011—The 2010-2011 CIRTL Coffee Hour Series provides an opportunity for STEM (science, technology, engineering, & math) graduate students and post docs to get together online and talk about careers and the academic job search. The series is facilitated by a mix of young faculty who have recently secured positions and more seasoned tenured faculty. The...
Upcoming Teaching Workshop: Difficult Dialogues (March 23)
Mar. 16, 2011—Time & Date: 4:10—5:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 23 Location: CFT Workshop Space, Center for Teaching Facilitators: Leanna Fuller, Graduate Teaching Fellow, CFT; John Morrell, Graduate Teaching Fellow, CFT; & Kat Baker, Assistant Director, CFT Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, and Post-docs Many faculty seek to equip their students with the skills to engage in...
What Should You Do When Student Evaluations Are Wrong?
Mar. 10, 2011—by Derek Bruff, Assistant Director Over on the ProfHacker blog today, Vanderbilt PhD alumna Heather Whitney shares her recent experience discovering that students were saying things on her end-of-course feedback survey that were verifiably incorrect. Several students complained that they felt it unfair that they weren’t told how their final projects were going to be...
Upcoming: Negotiating Student Expectations about Freedom and Responsibility (March 15)
Mar. 8, 2011—Time & Date: 4:10-5:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 15 Facilitators: Derek Bruff, Assistant Director, CFT Audience: Faculty, Students (Undergrad and Graduate), and Staff If students expect to show up to class, take a few notes, and figure the material out later, but instructors expect students to engage during class with the material through discussion and activities,...
Preventing Plagiarism – Some Resources
Mar. 3, 2011—by Derek Bruff, CFT Assistant Director Earlier this week the CFT and the College of Arts & Science’s Undergraduate Writing Program co-sponsored a conversation on teaching titled “Beyond the Quotation Marks: Preventing Plagiarism and Teaching about Academic Discourse.” Our three faculty panelists–Lynn Ramey (French), Andy Van Schaack (HOD), and Roger Moore (English)–shared some valuable perspectives...