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Reflecting On and Documenting Your Teaching Experiences
Jun. 6, 2014—Reflecting on Teaching: What? For Whom? Why? Often, the motivation to improve one’s teaching by revising practices or experimenting with new initiatives stems from reflection. This reflection often focuses on feedback received from others, such as student evaluations or peer reviews. Reflection further involves one’s own assessment of experiences, through self-observation and activities that foster...
Reflecting On and Documenting Your Teaching Experiences
Jun. 8, 2013—Reflecting on Teaching: What? For Whom? Why? Often, the motivation to improve one’s teaching by revising practices or experimenting with new initiatives stems from reflection. This reflection often focuses on feedback received from others, such as student evaluations or peer reviews. Reflection further involves one’s own assessment of experiences, through self-observation and activities that foster...
Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows Reflect on Exemplary Teaching
May. 9, 2013—by Lyndsey Fyffe, 2013 Teaching Certificate Recipient Exemplary teaching was the theme and mantra of the “Innovative and Effective Teaching by Junior Faculty: Cases from the Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows” session at the May 3rd Celebration of Teaching at Vanderbilt. Interested junior faculty members in the audience were introduced to the Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows...
Teaching at Vanderbilt: A Dean’s Perspective
May. 8, 2013—by CFT Director Derek Bruff Last Friday, the Center for Teaching and the Graduate School honored the achievements of the Vanderbilt teaching community at our annual Celebration of Teaching, held this year at the Commons Center. We expanded the event for 2013 to include a variety of panels and presentations throughout the day featuring successes,...
Reflecting On Your Teaching
Jun. 7, 2012—The regular academic year is over, grades are in, and graduations have been celebrated. As Nashville rolls into its hottest months, now is the ideal time to reflect on your teaching this year. Such reflection may take the form of thoughtful consideration of your learning goals and how your students met them. It may begin...
SoTL Spotlight: Bringing a Scholarly Approach to Vanderbilt’s Classrooms
Feb. 29, 2012—by Nancy Chick, CFT Assistant Director Nancy is the author of a variety of SoTL articles and book chapters, as well as co-editor of two books on signature pedagogies and co-editor of Teaching & Learning Inquiry, the official journal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). “SoTL Spotlight” is her ongoing feature...
Reflecting On and Documenting Your Teaching Experiences
Jun. 10, 2011—Reflecting on Teaching: What? For Whom? Why? Often, the motivation to improve one’s teaching by revising practices or experimenting with new initiatives stems from reflection. This reflection often focuses on feedback received from others, such as student evaluations or peer reviews. Reflection further involves one’s own assessment of experiences, through self-observation and activities that foster...
Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow Spotlight: Sean M. Polyn
Apr. 6, 2011—Each month, the CFT Blog highlights the work of our Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Sean Polyn, Assistant Professor of Psychology talks about his teaching philosophy and interests. My research focuses on how people remember things that happened to them recently. Since starting, I have taught Principles of Experimental Design twice. This is a...
CFT Announces Inaugural Cohort of Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows
Sep. 3, 2010—This year, the Center for Teaching is proud to welcome its inaugural cohort of eight Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. They include Philip Ackerman-Lieberman (Jewish Studies and Law), Kimberly D. Bess (Human and Organizational Development), Chris Bennett (Economics), Shaul Kelner (Sociology), Jinah Kim (History of Art), Haoxiang Luo (Mechanical Engineering), Sean Polyn (Psychology) and Lijun Song...
Crossing Borders by Working as a Master Teaching Fellow
Jul. 23, 2010—This article was originally published in the Spring 1999 issue of the CFT’s newsletter, Teaching Forum. By Alison Piepmeier Weather in the south is great. Spring and fall stretch out for months, giving us beautiful days for much of the school year. You know that we’re slipping into that stretch of balmy weather when your...