‘SoTL’
Upcoming Event: SoTL Symposium
Apr. 4, 2012—The Center for Teaching is pleased to announce an upcoming event that merges research and teaching. A symposium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) will be held on April 12, 2012 from 4:00-5:30 at the Center for Teaching. The format will include: Roundtable sessions with fellow graduate students who’ve successfully applied their research...
Upcoming Event: Assessing Student Learning
Mar. 14, 2012—Join us for this upcoming teaching workshop! Assessing Student Learning Date & Time: March 20, 4:10-5:30 Facilitator: Nancy Chick, Assistant Director Format: Teaching Workshop Audience: Faculty, Graduate and Professional Students, Post-docs, and Staff This session will equip participants with strategies to better understand what and how their students are learning—or not learning. ...
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...
Helping Future Faculty “Come Out” As Teachers (POD Essays on Teaching Excellence)
Feb. 28, 2012—CFT Assistant Director Nancy Chick previews an essay by Mark R. Connolly, University of Wisconsin-Madison, appearing in Essays on Teaching Excellence published by the Professional and Organizational Network in Higher Education. Connolly places the experience of doctoral students interested in teaching into the context of his and others’ research on LGBTQ students (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered,...
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...
Principles and Practices for Investigating Student Learning
Feb. 7, 2012—by CFT Director Derek Bruff I’m giving a talk today at the School of Medicine as part of the Medical Education Grand Rounds sponsored by the Office for Teaching and Learning in Medicine and the Academy for Excellence in Teaching. The talk is titled “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Principles and Practices for Investigating...
From the Stacks…
Feb. 7, 2012—The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration and Impact By Pat Hutchings, Mary Taylor Huber, and Anthony Ciccone From the publisher… The authors, all of whom continue to be involved in this work, imagine a future “where the scholarship of teaching and learning is not seen as the discrete project or special initiative,...
Hitting the Road: Conference Season for the CFT
Oct. 21, 2011—Four members of the CFT staff are attending conferences across the country over the next three weeks. This week, CFT educational consultant Milt Cox is participating in the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) conference in Milwaukee. Milt’s on a panel titled “Transforming Educational Development of SoTL by Engaging in, Leading,...
From the Stacks…The Effective, Efficient Professor: Teaching, Scholarship and Service
Jun. 15, 2011—The Effective, Efficient Professor: Teaching, Scholarship and Service By Philip C. Wankat From the publisher… Most faculty are discipline experts but have not studied methods to improve their teaching, scholarship or service. This book applies efficiency and time management methods to academe. Throughout the book, the author shows how student learning and academic productivity can...