Events Category
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...
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...
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,...
Academically Adrift? A Talk by Richard Arum Today on Undergraduate Learning
Feb. 23, 2011—The Center for Teaching is co-sponsoring a presentation this afternoon by Dr. Richard Arum, Professor of Sociology & Education at New York University, and co-author of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Professor Arum’s research has garnered much publicity, including coverage by the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed,...
Upcoming: Beyond the Quotation Marks: Preventing Plagiarism and Teaching about Academic Discourse (Feb 28)
Feb. 22, 2011—Time & Date: 4:10—5:30 p.m., Monday, February 28 Facilitator: Derek Bruff, Assistant Director, CFT Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, and Post-docs Panelists: Andy Van Schaack, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Human & Organizational Development Roger Moore, Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Undergraduate Writing (A&S) Lynn Ramey, Associate Professor of French Co-Sponsored...
Upcoming Teaching Workshop: Leveraging Diversity: The Wisdom of Crowds in University Teaching (Feb 22)
Feb. 15, 2011—Date & Time: 4:10-5:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 22 Location: CFT Workshop Space, Center for Teaching Facilitator: Derek Bruff, Assistant Director Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, and Post-docs Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, & Learning (CIRTL) Our students bring a rich array of knowledge, skills, experiences, perspectives, interests, and values...
Leveraging Diversity: The Wisdom of Crowds in University Teaching
Feb. 11, 2011—In The Wisdom of Crowds, author James Surowiecki describes an interesting phenomenon. When county fair visitors are given the chance to guess the weight of a cow, the average of the guesses is very often right on target. In fact, the average guess is frequently more accurate than any single guess, even guesses by those...
Upcoming Teaching Workshop: Interactive Lectures (Feb 16)
Feb. 9, 2011—Time & Date: 4:10—5:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 16 Location: CFT Workshop Space, Center for Teaching Facilitators: Manya Whitaker, Graduate Teaching Fellow, CFT Audience: Graduate and Professional Students and Post-docs Given that students have an attention span of around 15 to 20 minutes and that university classes are scheduled for around 50 or 75 minutes, instructors...
Reflections on GradSTEP 2011: Creating Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Classrooms
Feb. 2, 2011—Reflections from John Morrell, GradSTEP facilitator Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning are increasingly popular in the academy, from programs in Environmental Studies and Women’s Studies to initiatives like Writing Across the Curriculum. In an afternoon workshop at GradSTEP 2011, a group of Vanderbilt graduate students from across the disciplines explored the benefits and challenges...