‘Teaching Certificate’
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,...
Upcoming Fall Orientations for Teaching Certificate Program
Aug. 26, 2011—Three Fall Orientation Sessions will be held those interested in participating in the Teaching Certificate Program. Two of these orientations are scheduled on: Tuesday, August 30 4:00pm and Friday, September 16 11:00am. A third orientation will be offered specifically for graduate students in the Medical School. This orientation is scheduled for Monday, August 29 1:00pm in...
Apply Now to join the Teaching Certificate Program
Aug. 2, 2011—Why Participate in the Teaching Certificate Program? By developing and refining your teaching skills, you’ll improve the end-product of your teaching: the learning of your current and future students. You’ll do this by better understanding student learning and what kinds of teaching lead to it. By approaching your teaching as a cycle of inquiry, experimentation,...
Join the Teaching Certificate Program
Jul. 6, 2011—The CFT Teaching Certificate Program is a self-guided program designed so that Vanderbilt graduate students, professional students, and post-doctoral fellows have an opportunity to develop and refine their teaching skills through three cycles of teaching activities, each consisting of inquiry, experimentation, and reflection phases. In the first cycle – which is accepting applications now – participants focus on...
MyVU highlights Celebration of Teaching
May. 5, 2011—An article by Kara Furlong appeared in MyVU on Thursday, May 5, 2011, which highlighted the Center’s Celebration of Teaching. Faculty and graduate students who participated in Vanderbilt Center for Teaching programs this academic year talked about the value of their experiences, and teaching certificates were awarded to 14 graduate students, at the Celebration of Teaching May...
Accepting Applications for the Teaching Certificate Program
Feb. 1, 2011—The CFT Teaching Certificate Program is a self-guided program designed so that Vanderbilt graduate students, professional students, and post-doctoral fellows have an opportunity to develop and refine their teaching skills through three cycles of teaching activities, each consisting of inquiry, experimentation, and reflection phases. In the first cycle – which is accepting applications now –...
Celebration of Teaching Spotlight – Teaching Certificate Graduates
Apr. 26, 2010—This year’s graduates of the CFT’s Teaching Certificate program (co-sponsored by the Graduate School) will be recognized at our Celebration of Teaching on May 6th. We have eight graduate students finishing the program this year, including students from the Graduate Department of Religion, Peabody College, and the basic sciences at the Medical Center. These students...
Teaching Certificate Participants Sharing Their Work at Friday’s Grad Student Research Symposium
Mar. 24, 2010—Vanderbilt’s annual Graduate Student Research Symposium (organized by the Graduate Student Council) will be held this Thursday and Friday, March 25th and 26th. Seven participants in the CFT’s Teaching Certificate program will be sharing their Cycle 3 “scholarship of teaching and learning” projects at the symposium. These projects all involve intentional and systematic inquiry into...