Teaching Assistant Orientation
Aug. 12, 2021—Many graduate students are awarded teaching assistantships, and while teaching assistant (TA) duties vary across departments, they all demand considerable skill and knowledge. These duties can include grading, consulting with students during office hours, leading discussion or problem sessions, teaching labs, or giving lectures. To assist new TAs as they prepare for their duties,...
Upcoming Workshop: Teaching with Top Hat
Aug. 10, 2021—Date: Thursday, August 12th Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Location: Zoom Facilitator: Rhett McDaniel, CFT assistant director Guest Faculty: Jesse Blocher, associate professor of the practice of data science and finance In this session you’ll hear about Top Hat, Vanderbilt’s student polling application. Top Hat allows you to ask multiple question types, receive responses, and generate discussions with real-time feedback...
Online Teaching
Aug. 9, 2021—This faculty learning community is for Vanderbilt faculty, staff, or grad students who want to dig deeper into online and hybrid course design principles in order to create excellent socially-distanced courses. In our working group, we will explore principles of effective online teaching as described in research literature, expert accounts, and personal perspectives. As a...
Join Queer Teaching, Queer Thriving: A Learning Community on Inclusive Teaching for All Educators
Aug. 9, 2021—The Center for Teaching and the K.C. Potter Center for LGBTQI Life are proud to offer a 2021-2022 learning community about ways campus educators may help LGBTQI students to thrive academically and socially. Open to all faculty, graduate students, and staff of any background, the learning community will discuss a wide variety of issues: the...
Upcoming Workshop: The Flipped Classroom
Aug. 9, 2021—Date: Wednesday, August 11th Time: 2:00-3:00pm Facilitator: Cynthia Brame, CFT associate director Panelists: Chris Candelaria, Leadership, Policy, and Organizations Lars Plate, Biological Sciences and Chemistry Heeryoon Shin, History of Art Faculty panelists share lessons from pandemic teaching that will shape how they have students prepare for class and what they have them do in class this fall. REGISTER (A...
Want to signal inclusion to your neurodivergent students? Use this syllabus statement
Jul. 29, 2021— In 2020-2021, a group of faculty met throughout the year to consider ways to promote equity and inclusion in their courses and programs (you can see a brief description of how they got started here). Keivan Stassun, professor of physics & astronomy, committed to developing a statement that faculty can use in their course...
CFT Announces New Graduate Teaching Fellows
Jul. 29, 2021—L to R: Yvonne Chen (Sociology), Sara Eccleston (Human & Organizational Development), Jose Luis de Ramon Ruiz (Spanish and Portuguese), and Leah Roberts (Human & Organizational Development) The Center for Teaching is excited to welcome the Graduate Teaching Fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Graduate Teaching Fellows provide a variety of services for Vanderbilt’s graduate and professional students and postdocs, including one-on-one consultations on teaching issues and...
Teaching at Vanderbilt New Faculty Orientation
Jul. 28, 2021—At the beginning of every academic year, the Center for Teaching hosts “Teaching at Vanderbilt,” an orientation for junior and senior faculty new to Vanderbilt. The orientation features an introduction to strategies for launching a successful teaching career at Vanderbilt, with concurrent sessions on a variety of practical topics. Teaching at Vanderbilt is an opportunity...
Microbiome Venture Fund Seeking Proposals
Jul. 27, 2021—Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students can now apply for the Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative Venture Fund, which supports microbiome scholarship spanning research, education, outreach, art, ethics, law and policy development, among others. The Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative Venture Fund is an opportunity for all Vanderbilt faculty, staff, trainees and students to apply for pilot funding of a project...
Learning Online with Social Annotation
Jul. 26, 2021—This spring CFT executive director Derek Bruff experimented with the social annotation tool Perusall in his first-year writing seminar. Perusall allowed him to share a variety of course materials with students, including news articles, podcast episodes, and YouTube video, and to invite students to annotate those texts collaboratively. He used the tool in several different...