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CFT Teaching Guides Week: Day 3
May. 20, 2015—Day 3: Keeping Stress from Evolving into Distress: A Guide on Managing Student Stress through Course Design If there can be one college experience that can be applied to all students, it is called stress. Whether students have to pull an all-nighter to finish an essay or they have to navigate taking coursework from various...
CFT Acknowledges Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows
May. 20, 2015— The CFT acknowledges these junior faculty who participated in the JFTF program this year! This year’s Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows, left to right: Jesse Blocher (Finance), John Bradley (English), Lily Claiborne (Earth and Environmental Sciences), Alex Da Fonte (Special Education), Ken MacLeish (Medicine, Health, and Society and Anthropology), Dan Morgan (Earth and Environmental Sciences),Haerin Shin (English), and...
CFT Teaching Guides Week: Day 2
May. 19, 2015—Day 2: Teaching Students with Disabilities Students of all abilities and backgrounds want classrooms that are inclusive and convey respect. For those students with disabilities, the classroom setting may present certain challenges that need accommodation and consideration. – “Teaching Students with Disabilities” CFT Teaching Guide Today’s featured teaching guide is “Teaching Students with Disabilities“,...
CFT Teaching Guides Week: Day 1
May. 18, 2015—Here at the Center for Teaching, we’re always having conversations around best teaching practices that promote student learning, and we look to develop content that shares these reflections and conversations in the form of our teaching guides and blog posts. Now that the academic year has come to a “close”, we’re excited to look back...
Blended & Online Learning Design (BOLD) Fellows
May. 15, 2015— Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching and the CIRTL Network(Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning) share a mission to enhance excellence in undergraduate teaching by offering the BOLD Fellows program. The CFT honors the six faculty/student teams that created online instructional modules during the program’s inaugural year! We invite you to hear presentations of their...
CFT Congratulates Mellon Certificate Graduates
May. 13, 2015—The Mellon Certificate in Humanities Education is a special section of the CiCT reserved for humanities graduate students and post-docs as part of the Vanderbilt’s Mellon Partners for Humanities Education project. Like the CiCT, the Mellon Certificate program is comprised of a sequential seminar and practicum. We congratulate the graduate students who received certificates. Adam Burgos...
From the Director: Teaching, Difference, and Power Symposium in Review
May. 11, 2015—By Derek Bruff, CFT Director On April 21st, the Center for Teaching held a symposium as the final event in our “Teaching, Difference, and Power” theme year. The CFT selected this theme for 2014-15 as a way to explore the challenges all educators face in negotiating difference and power in their classrooms. When we selected...
CFT Congratulates 58 Certificate in College Teaching Graduates
May. 8, 2015—Congratulations to the 58 participants who completed the Certificate in College Teaching this past year! The purpose of the Certificate in College Teaching, co-sponsored by the Center for Teaching and the Graduate School, is to assist graduate students and post doctoral fellows who wish to gain a clearer, deeper, more active approach to teaching and learning in...
Reflections from the CIRTL Forum
Apr. 20, 2015—by Cynthia Brame, CFT Assistant Director I just got back from the CIRTL Forum in College Station, TX. (CIRTL is the Center for the Integration of Research,Teaching and Learning.) What a great trip! The Forum’s title was “Preparing the Future STEM Faculty for the Rapidly Changing Landscape of Higher Education,” and we had a collection...
CIRTL Network Development Opportunities
Apr. 17, 2015— The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is an NSF Center for Learning and Teaching in higher education. CIRTL has opened registration for upcoming course opportunities. These are free, online events for grad students and post-docs in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) interested in faculty careers. April sessions include...