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CIRTL Network Development Opportunity

Jan. 23, 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. This is a free, online event for grad students and post-docs in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) interested in faculty careers.  ...

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CIRTL Network Development Opportunities

Jan. 15, 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. January sessions...

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CIRTL Network Development Opportunities

Jan. 12, 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. January sessions...

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Call for Proposals – Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives: Filling the Void

Jan. 6, 2015—Guest Post by Megan Myers, Co-President of the GSMLA If you are not a Graduate Student in the French and Italian, German, or Spanish and Portuguese Departments here at Vanderbilt, you likely have not heard of the Graduate Student Modern Language Association (GSMLA). My fellow graduate student in the French Department, Raquelle Bostow, and I...

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When Words Won’t Suffice

Oct. 29, 2014—By Ben Galina, Graduate Teaching Fellow  Monday, November 3rd at 7:15pm, our learning community will meet at the Center for Teaching to discuss microagressions. For more information, stop by the CFT, check out our website, or email me or my co-facilitator, Brielle Harbin, for more information.  

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BOLD Fellows Program is Accepting Applications

Oct. 13, 2014—We are recruiting graduate students to participate in the BOLD Fellows program beginning in January 2015. The BOLD Fellows program is designed to help graduate student/faculty teams build expertise in developing online instructional modules grounded in good course design principles and our understanding of how people learn. STEM faculty members partner with graduate students or postdocs to design and...

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How to (Re)frame Your Teaching for Non-academic Jobs

Feb. 12, 2014—By Andrew Greer, Graduate Teaching Fellow  Attention fellow graduate students: Eventually we will seek employment outside of our programs. If you’re like me, your search is in full force. With the majority of academic applications behind me, I’ve switched my strategy to applying for non-academic jobs. This switch not only requires transforming my CV into...

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Apply to be part of the Certificate in College Teaching

Jul. 5, 2013—The Center for Teaching is excited to offer, once again, opportunities for interested graduate students and postdocs to receive our Certificate in College Teaching.  The purpose is to gain a clearer, deeper, more active approach to teaching and learning in higher education. The certificate focuses on the research on how people learn and best teaching practices,...

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