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Teaching Forum Vol 1:2 Spring 1999 Newsletter
Jul. 23, 2010—Extending and maintaining borders in university teaching. Four professors discuss how they deal with borders in their teaching, from the borders between themselves and their students to the borders between academia and “the real world.” Professors After Hours: bringing together teaching and research, teacher and students. Michael Rose of Blair School of Music explores ways...
The Teaching Exchange: Fostering Critical Thinking
Jul. 23, 2010—This article was originally published in the Fall 1999 issue of the CFT’s newsletter, Teaching Forum. The Teaching Exchange is a forum for teachers at Vanderbilt to share their pedagogical strategies, experiments, and discoveries. Every issue will highlight innovations in teaching across the campus. This ‘exchange’ offers strategies from several different instructors for fostering critical...
The Teaching Exchange
Jul. 23, 2010—This article was originally published in the Spring 2000 issue of the CFT’s newsletter, Teaching Forum. A forum for teachers at Vanderbilt to share their pedagogical strategies, experiments, and discoveries In this column, we highlight innovations in teaching across the campus. For this issue, we decided to use a teaching case that actually occurred in...
Teaching Forum Vol 2:2 Spring 2000 Newsletter
Jul. 23, 2010—Diversity in the Classroom: Beyond Race and Gender. Three members of the Vanderbilt community discuss diversity issues at the University. From the Editor. Christine Dungan suggests that it’s important to remember that issues of diversity are not merely abstract. “Diversity is, essentially, people, and as such is an inherently personal issue.” White Privilege: Unpacking the...
The Teaching Exchange: Student Course Evaluations
Jul. 23, 2010—This article was originally published in the Fall 2003 issue of the CFT’s newsletter, Teaching Forum. by Anupama Balasubramanian This column highlights concrete innovations and insights in teaching and learning across the Vanderbilt campus. In this issue, a Vanderbilt faculty member and teaching assistant discuss their perceptions of student course evaluations, and their strategies for...
Reflecting On and Documenting Your Teaching Effectiveness
Jul. 23, 2010—With the academic year drawn to a close, now is a good time to reflect on teaching experiences while they’re still fresh. At a recent CFT workshop, 23 faculty gathered to do just that, exploring how to write about teaching, why it’s important to do so, audiences and purposes for such reflections, and concrete strategies...
The Teaching Exchange: Innovations by TAs
Jul. 21, 2010—This article was originally published in the Spring 1999 issue of the CFT’s newsletter, Teaching Forum. TAs have effectively expanded the borders of their classrooms through various creative strategies. “Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoon, I endure the stares and snickers of strangers who do not fully appreciate the beauty of the ‘Bucket of Math.’...
The Teaching Exchange: Technology and Challenge-Based Learning
Jul. 20, 2010—This article was originally published in the Fall 2002 issue of the CFT’s newsletter, Teaching Forum. by Derek Bruff In this column, we highlight innovations in teaching across the campus. In this issue, we interview two Vanderbilt faculty members associated with the VaNTH Engineering Research Center. The VaNTH ERC is a center organized by the...
Teaching Assistants
Jun. 10, 2010—Print Version The Graduate Student Experience: This interview with Ann Austin, originally published in the Spring 2002 issue of the CFT’s newsletter, Teaching Forum, addresses a variety of issues relevant to graduate students — their roles as teaching assistants, their relationships with their research advisors, and their preparation for future faculty roles. The TA Experience:...
Call for Proposals – CIRTL Teaching-as-Research Fellows Program – Due June 1, 2010
May. 4, 2010—As part of the CIRTL Network activities at Vanderbilt, the CFT co-sponsors the Teaching-as-Research (TAR) Fellows program for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields at Vanderbilt. The call for proposals for fall 2010 Fellows can be found below. I. General CIRTL is the Center for Integration of Research,...