Events Category
Upcoming: Negotiating Student Expectations about Grades and Goals (1/26)
Jan. 19, 2011—Time & Date: 4:10-5:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 26 Format: Conversation on Teaching Facilitators: Derek Bruff, Assistant Director, CFT Audience: Faculty, Students (Undergrad and Graduate), and Staff Should grades measure effort or performance? Should they measure improvement over time or final results? Should a student be graded against fixed criteria or relative to other students? Should...
Registration Open for Spring Events
Jan. 18, 2011—The CFT kicks off the Spring 2011 term with an exciting Spring Event lineup that includes Teaching Workshops and Conversations on Teaching on a variety of interesting topics. These include events on Interactive Lecturing, Plagiarism, Service Learning, and Teaching Outside the Classroom. In addition to these topics, two events facilitated by the CFT will be...
CIRTL Coffee Hour, January 20 – What to Know about Tenure and Promotion BEFORE Applying for a Job
Jan. 17, 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...
Belmont University’s January Teaching Center Symposium
Dec. 30, 2010—Our colleagues down the street at Belmont University are hosting their 5th Annual January Teaching Center Symposium on Monday, January 10th, just before classes start for Vanderbilt. The theme of the event is “Creativity and Invention in Teaching.” The Belmont Teaching Center director, Merrie King, has extended an invitation to interested Vanderbilt faculty and graduate...
GradSTEP 2011 – Teaching 3D: The Many Dimensions of Teaching
Dec. 1, 2010—Held in January each year, our Graduate Student Teaching Event for Professional Development, better known as GradSTEP, provides workshops and discussions on teaching, learning, and professional development issues across the disciplines. All Vanderbilt graduate and professional students, as well as post-doctoral fellows, are invited to attend. The theme for GradSTEP 2011 is “Teaching 3D: The...
CIRTL Coffee Hour, November 18 – Using Your Teaching-as-Research Project to Strengthen Your Professional Life
Nov. 10, 2010—The 2010-2011 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 will be facilitated by a mix of young faculty who have recently secured positions and more seasoned tenured faculty. The...
Service Learning for Sustainability
Nov. 5, 2010—The CFT is proud to be a part of this event that addresses issues of environmental sustainability in the curriculum. On November 12th, from 8:30am to 4pm in the Wyatt Center on the Peabody Campus, the CFT and the Tennessee Higher Education Sustainability Association (THESA) will co-host a one-day workshop on integrating service learning and sustainability...
10/26 Workshop: Motivating Students
Oct. 19, 2010—Time & Date: 4:10—5:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 26 Facilitator: Graduate Teaching Fellow, CFT Audience: Graduate and Professional Students and Post-docs Motivating students to engage in learning requires a “learner-centered” experience, in which the instructor facilitates learners’ interactive engagement with course content and activities. To foster this learning environment, we must understand both intrinsic and extrinsic...
10/25 Workshop: Crafting a Professional Digital Identity: Faculty and Social Media
Oct. 18, 2010—Time & Date: 4:10 – 5:30 p.m., Monday, October 25 Facilitator: Derek Bruff, Assistant Director, CFT Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff Panelists: Melanie Moran, Director, Web Communications, and Associate Director, News Service; and Lacy Tite, Web Developer / Designer, Web Communication Social media—Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, and so on—give us plenty...
CIRTL Coffee Hour, October 21 – Teaching and Research at Different Institutions
Oct. 15, 2010—The 2010-2011 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 will be facilitated by a mix of young faculty who have recently secured positions and more seasoned tenured faculty. The...