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JFTF Spotlight on Danyelle Valentine
May. 25, 2023—Throughout the year, the CFT highlights the work of their Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Danyelle Valentine shares about her work as a Fellow. I am a Senior Lecturer in both American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. My research interests explore histories of resistance to bondage, migration, and freedom throughout the Black Atlantic. My...
New Book Edited by CFT Assistant Director, Stacey Johnson
May. 3, 2023—Check out this recently published book edited by the CFT’s own Assistant Director Stacey Johnson. Entitled How We Take Action: Social Justice in PK-16 Language Classrooms and published by Information Age Publishing just this month, this volume brings together practical examples of social justice in language education from a wide range of contexts. Even language...
JFTF Spotlight on Divya Chaudhry
Apr. 18, 2023—Throughout the year, the CFT highlights the work of their Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Divya Chaudhry shares about her work as a Fellow. I am a senior lecturer in Hindi-Urdu at Vanderbilt University, passionate about teaching Hindi and Urdu languages, as well as South Asian culture. My instructional decision making can be best...
JFTF Spotlight on Lynn Punnoose
Apr. 3, 2023—Throughout the year, the CFT highlights the work of their Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Lynn Punnoose shares about her work as a Fellow. I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt and a cardiologist specializing in advanced heart failure. I am passionate about education both for our faculty and trainees, and...
JFTF Spotlight on Courtney Johnson
Feb. 28, 2023—Throughout the year, the CFT highlights the work of their Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Courtney Johnson shares about her work as a Fellow. I consider myself a lifelong learner, so I am always looking for ways to refine my teaching methods, and the JFTF program has allowed me to do that. I have...
JFTF Spotlight on Simone Stirmer
Feb. 27, 2023—Throughout the year, the CFT highlights the work of their Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Simone Stirner shares about her work as a Fellow. The JFTF has been a great opportunity to reflect on teaching in collaboration with CfT faculty and other junior colleagues on campus and learn from each other in a supportive...
Teaching, Difference, and Power Learning Community: Anti-Racist Teaching
Feb. 17, 2023—This spring, the CFT continues co-hosting a learning community with Meredyth Wegener (Neuroscience) on anti-racist teaching with the goal of better understanding how higher education systems, teaching and learning practices, and our disciplines can resolve rather than reproduce racial marginalization and exclusion. Discussion will largely focus on the challenges and opportunities white anti-racist educators confront,...
Come work with the CFT!
Feb. 16, 2023—Each year the Center for Teaching (CFT) hires a number of graduate students and postdocs as part of its efforts to mentor and train graduate instructors across campus, including those serving as teaching assistants or instructors of record here at Vanderbilt as well as those interested in developing teaching skills for future faculty careers. The...
From the Director
Feb. 16, 2023—The spring semester is unfolding and undoubtedly you are facing many of the joys and challenges of teaching. Please know the Center for Teaching is here to celebrate the former and support you through the latter. Our staff are happy to offer one-on-one, confidential instructional consultations to help you think through course design and teaching choices. Our Brightspace and...
JFTF Spotlight on Alice Mark
Feb. 16, 2023—Each year, the CFT highlights the work of our Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Alice Mark shares about her goals and experiences as a Fellow. I am a Senior Lecturer in the department of mathematics, where I teach a variety of (mostly first and second year) courses. Calculus and Linear Algebra are foundational courses...