Events Category
CIRTL Online Coffee Hour: Teaching at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution, 9/27 at 1pm
Sep. 24, 2012—See below for this week’s offering from the CIRTL Network’s online coffee house series on building academic careers in science, engineering, and mathematics. This week’s coffee house features two Vanderbilt alumnae, Tara Davis (Mathematics) and Heather Whitney (Physics). Teaching at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution Thursday September 27, 1-2pm Central Where do you want to teach? ...
Faculty: Visit Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey’s Psychology class at next week’s teaching visit
Sep. 24, 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...
BRET Event: PhD Career Connections – Research Development and Administration
Sep. 24, 2012—PhD Career Connections: Research Development and Administration Tuesday, September 25 4:00-5:00PM 415A-D Light Hall Sponsored by the BRET Office of Career Development; advance registration is requested Panelists for this seminar include Vanderbilt PhD and postdoctoral alumni Dr. Julie Koh, Director of Foundation Relations, and Dr. Erica Bowton, BioVU Program Director for the Vanderbilt Institute for...
BRET event for those in biomedical sciences: Launching Your Academic Job Search
Sep. 19, 2012—Launching Your Academic Job Search & Preparing Your Application Materials Friday, September 21 2:30-4:00PM Sponsored by the BRET Office of Career Development and Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association and presented by Dr. Cynthia Furhmann, Assistant Dean, Career and Professional Development, University of Massachusetts Medical School; advance registration is requested. This workshop will present information on how to...
Upcoming Event: Going Public with Teaching Evaluations
Sep. 18, 2012—Join us for this upcoming Conversation on Teaching! Going Public with Teaching Evaluations Date & Time: Tuesday, September 25 4:10-5:30pm Beginning this Fall, Vanderbilt students will have access to quantitative information from course evaluations so that they may be more informed about their choices of instructors and classes. This is part of a larger...
Junior Faculty: Visit Lori Troxel’s Engineering class at next week’s teaching visit
Sep. 17, 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...
Strategies for Grading Workshop: Additional Resources
Sep. 13, 2012—CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow, Beth Koontz, offers additional resources on grading and assessing student work. The CFT recently hosted a teaching workshop on Effective and Efficient Grading focusing on the purposes of grading and how to grade in ways that help students learn more deeply and save time for the instructor. This post provides some...
Upcoming Event: Making the Most of Office Hours
Sep. 13, 2012—Join us for this upcoming Teaching Workshop! Making the Most of Office Hours Date & Time: Thursday, September 20 4:10-5:30pm Everyone who teaches holds office hours, but few intentionally approach these moments with students as opportunities for significant learning. This workshop will explore these one-on-one or small-group teaching situations and provide tips for managing time,...
Online education pioneer to deliver Hall Lecture October 2
Sep. 12, 2012—Daphne Koller will present her ground-breaking work in free, universally accessible college education as the first guest speaker in the 2012 -2013 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Series. The lecture – The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone – is Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 4:10 p.m. in Vanderbilt’s Wilson Hall, Room 103. The...
New Website Features Course Blogs
Sep. 11, 2012—Increasingly, Vanderbilt instructors are incorporating blogs into their course design. The CFT has assembled blogs from several of these courses in one place. Course Blogs at Vanderbilt is a mash-up of live feeds representing a wide variety of courses that use blogging to help students reflect on, comment about, and introduce new ideas to course...