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Upcoming Event: Making the Most of Office Hours
Sep. 13, 2012—Join us for this upcoming Teaching Workshop! Making the Most of Office Hours Date & Time: Thursday, September 20 4:10-5:30pm Everyone who teaches holds office hours, but few intentionally approach these moments with students as opportunities for significant learning. This workshop will explore these one-on-one or small-group teaching situations and provide tips for managing time,...
Online education pioneer to deliver Hall Lecture October 2
Sep. 12, 2012—Daphne Koller will present her ground-breaking work in free, universally accessible college education as the first guest speaker in the 2012 -2013 John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Series. The lecture – The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone – is Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 4:10 p.m. in Vanderbilt’s Wilson Hall, Room 103. The...
New Website Features Course Blogs
Sep. 11, 2012—Increasingly, Vanderbilt instructors are incorporating blogs into their course design. The CFT has assembled blogs from several of these courses in one place. Course Blogs at Vanderbilt is a mash-up of live feeds representing a wide variety of courses that use blogging to help students reflect on, comment about, and introduce new ideas to course...
Junior Faculty: Visit Richard Pitt’s Sociology class at next week’s teaching visit
Sep. 10, 2012—A Teaching Visit involves a small group of faculty who observe a colleague’s class (on a selected day), followed by an hour of conversation about what was observed, particularly shared teaching challenges. The Center for Teaching has hosted Teaching Visits for many years and they have been among the most productive and helpful events we...
Sep. 9, 2012—Scoring Rubrics in the Classroom: Using Performance Criteria for Assessing and Improving Student Performance by Judith Arter and Jay McTighe From the publisher… A practical guide to more effective assessment for improved student learning Learn how to be more consistent in judging student performance, and help your students become more effective at assessing their own...
Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow Spotlight:Yaqiong Xu
Sep. 7, 2012—Each month, the CFT Newsletter highlights the work of our Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Yaqiong Xu, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics, talks about her teaching philosophy and interests: I joined Vanderbilt in September 2009 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor who is jointly appointed in the Departments of Electrical Engineering & Computer...
Upcoming event: Strategies for Grading
Sep. 6, 2012—Join us for this upcoming Teaching Workshop! Strategies for Grading Date & Time: Thursday, September 13 4:10-5:30pm Grading can be a source of stress for TAs, especially at the beginning of your graduate career. This hands-on workshop will familiarize participants with a variety of grading strategies and address questions like ‘What kind of feedback should...