‘CFT Programs’
Upcoming Event: Getting Ready for Review
Feb. 21, 2012—Join us for this upcoming teaching workshop! Getting Ready for Review Date & Time: February 28, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Joe Bandy, Assistant Director Format: Teaching Workshop Audience: Faculty Only As you consider documenting your teaching for review or promotion, join us for a hands-on workshop. We will begin...
Upcoming Event: Grading Effectively & Efficiently
Feb. 15, 2012—Join us for this upcoming teaching workshop! Grading Effectively & Efficiently Date & Time: February 22, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Leanna Fuller, Graduate Teaching Fellow Format: Teaching Workshop Audience: Graduate Students and Post-Docs Grading can be a source of stress for instructors. How do you know if you’re being fair in your assessment of...
CFT Focuses on SoTL This Spring
Feb. 13, 2012—Join us next week for What is SoTL, the first event (of three this spring) focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning. In this first discussion, What is SoTL, CFT Assistant Director Nancy Chick along with a handful of Vanderbilt faculty and graduate students, will help you explore how you might adopt a SoTL...
Upcoming Event: What is SoTL?
Feb. 9, 2012—Join us for this upcoming Conversation on Teaching! What is SoTL? Date & Time: February 16, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Nancy Chick, Assistant Director Format: Conversation on Teaching Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is a way of treating teaching as a scholarly activity...
Upcoming Event: Student Incivility
Feb. 2, 2012—Join us for this upcoming teaching workshop! Student Incivility Date & Time: February 6, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Bill Hardin, Graduate Teaching Fellow Format: Teaching Workshop Audience: Graduate Students and Post-Docs This session will explore how instructors can manage incivilities in the classroom-distracting behaviors such as “grade-grubbing,” cheating, rudeness, inattention due to laptops and...
Upcoming Event: Teaching with Clickers
Jan. 26, 2012—Join us for this upcoming Teaching Workshop! Teaching with Clickers Date & Time: February 2, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Dan Morrison, Graduate Teaching Fellow Format: Teaching Workshop Audience: Graduate Students and Post-Docs Classroom response systems (“clickers”) are technologies that enable teachers to rapidly collect and analyze student responses to multiple-choice (and sometimes free-response) questions during class. With...
Upcoming Event: Strategies and Practices for Effective Discussion Leading
Jan. 24, 2012—Join us for this upcoming Conversation on Teaching! Strategies and Practices for Effective Discussion Leading Date & Time: January 30, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Milt Cox, Educational Consultant Format: Conversation on Teaching Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff Panel: Leonard Folgarait, PhD (Professor of History of Art; Latin American Art, European and American Modernism,...
Upcoming Event: Tell and Show: Why and How to Use Images in Presentations
Jan. 18, 2012—Join us for this upcoming teaching workshop! Tell and Show: Why and How to Use Images in Presentations Date & Time: January 25, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Derek Bruff, Director & Rhett McDaniel, Educational Technologist Format: Teaching Workshop Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students,...
GradSTEP Preview: Sessions
Jan. 14, 2012—Join us next weekend, Saturday January 21st, from 9:30am-2:30pm in Wilson Hall, for a series of free teaching workshops for graduate students, professional students, and post doctoral fellows. Co-sponsored by the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and the Graduate Student Council, the Graduate Student Teaching Event for Professional Development (GradSTEP) includes the following 10 sessions:...
Call for Proposals: The Cumberland Project
Jan. 12, 2012—In this time of environmental change and uncertainty, institutions of higher education play a vital role in helping the public meet the numerous challenges to sustainability. Many individuals and institutions have taken up this challenge, as evidenced by the development of organizations such as the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and...