Events Category
GradSTEP recap: Discussion Leading
Jan. 30, 2012—This blog post is written by William Hardin, a CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow. Bill led the Leading Effective Discussions session at GradSTEP on January 21, 2012. You can download the PowerPoint and handouts from this session. Leading Effective Discussions Getting students to talk, to really engage with one another, can be difficult. Many are unsure of how...
GradSTEP recap: Course Design
Jan. 28, 2012—This blog post is written by Dan Morrison, a CFT Graduate Teaching Fellow. Dan led the Course & Syllabus Design session at GradSTEP on January 21, 2012. You can download the PowerPoint and handouts from this session. “Integrating Learning Goals, Feedback & Assessment, and Teaching & Learning Activities for Significant Learning” In this GradSTEP session, I...
Upcoming Event: Teaching with Clickers
Jan. 26, 2012—Join us for this upcoming Teaching Workshop! Teaching with Clickers Date & Time: February 2, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Dan Morrison, Graduate Teaching Fellow Format: Teaching Workshop Audience: Graduate Students and Post-Docs Classroom response systems (“clickers”) are technologies that enable teachers to rapidly collect and analyze student responses to multiple-choice (and sometimes free-response) questions during class. With...
Upcoming workshops address topics Vanderbilt TAs need to know about
Jan. 25, 2012—Clickers, Clickers Everywhere Clickers are popping up in classrooms across the university – in physics, math, psychology, biomedical engineering – and other universities are seeing the same increase in use. And it’s easy to see why – clickers have been proven to increase class participation and improve attendance, assess class understanding of a topic, and...
Upcoming Event: Strategies and Practices for Effective Discussion Leading
Jan. 24, 2012—Join us for this upcoming Conversation on Teaching! Strategies and Practices for Effective Discussion Leading Date & Time: January 30, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Milt Cox, Educational Consultant Format: Conversation on Teaching Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff Panel: Leonard Folgarait, PhD (Professor of History of Art; Latin American Art, European and American Modernism,...
GradSTEP: Reminder!
Jan. 20, 2012—We’ve planned a day of engaging, provocative and enriching discussions and we’re looking forward to hosting GradSTEP tomorrow! This annual event was created in 1999 by graduate fellows at the CFT to serve teaching and professional development needs of grad students and post-doc fellows at Vanderbilt. Tomorrow’s event will follow this schedule: Event Schedule: 9:00-9:30 ...
GradSTEP Preview: More about the Panels
Jan. 19, 2012—Over 4,500 colleges and universities grant Associates, Baccalaureate, Master’s and Doctoral degrees. All together, they educate 20.7 million students. Less than 300 colleges and universities (6%) grant more than 20 Ph.D. degrees each year. The diversity of American higher education means that nearly all of our graduate students will find employment in one of the...
Upcoming Event: Tell and Show: Why and How to Use Images in Presentations
Jan. 18, 2012—Join us for this upcoming teaching workshop! Tell and Show: Why and How to Use Images in Presentations Date & Time: January 25, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Derek Bruff, Director & Rhett McDaniel, Educational Technologist Format: Teaching Workshop Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students,...
GradSTEP Preview: Sessions
Jan. 14, 2012—Join us next weekend, Saturday January 21st, from 9:30am-2:30pm in Wilson Hall, for a series of free teaching workshops for graduate students, professional students, and post doctoral fellows. Co-sponsored by the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and the Graduate Student Council, the Graduate Student Teaching Event for Professional Development (GradSTEP) includes the following 10 sessions:...
CIRTL Coffee Hour 1/17: Finding funding to support your love of teaching
Jan. 13, 2012—The 2011-2012 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. This year’s...