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Graduate Student/Postdoc Workshops in September

These workshops focus on practical, concrete strategies for common teaching tasks, challenges, and opportunities. These sessions draw on research-based best practices from the literature on teaching and learning and help participants consider ways to apply those best practices in their teaching. Crafting an Effective Teaching Statement In this workshop, we will address best practices for…

Posted by on September 14, 2020 in Events, graduate students, News, post docs, Teaching Workshops

Vanderbilt Libraries Fall Virtual Workshops

Vanderbilt Libraries are hosting two exciting new virtual workshop series this fall. Research Productivity Series To be productive, researchers must identify relevant research, sift through and organize it to suit their scholarly purposes, and present it effectively to others. Researchers are apt to get stuck at any of these steps. This workshop series aims to…

Posted by on September 10, 2020 in Events, Vanderbilt Libraries, workshops

Upcoming Conversations on Teaching

These sessions provide members of the Vanderbilt teaching community a chance to share their teaching experiences and learn from each other in an informal, discussion-based format.   Teaching in a Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classroom For some instructors, the classroom looks very different this fall. Some of their students are in the classroom, but masked…

Posted by on September 3, 2020 in Conversations on Teaching, Events, hybrid teaching, Perusall, Resource

Brightspace and Teaching Focused Workshops for the Fall

We have several Brightspace and online teaching focused workshops lined up for September. Offerings include: Grades and Feedback in Brightspace Participants in this workshop will learn how to organize their gradebook and about the range of tools available in Brightspace to make grading and feedback more efficient and effective. September 2, 12:00-1:30pm. REGISTER Assignments in…

Posted by on September 2, 2020 in brightspace, Events, Grading, online teaching, Resource

Celebration of Learning Spotlight: The Smiler: A Case Study in Roller Coaster Safety

On February 13, 2020, the Center for Teaching held a Celebration of Learning, an exhibition of students as producers. The event featured students from all over campus sharing what they learned, created, designed, and discovered. Each year millions of riders brave the courses of the world’s 5,000 roller coasters, but should passengers feel unsafe riding these behemoths of twisted…

Posted by on August 26, 2020 in Celebration of Learning, Commentary, Events, Students as Producers

Liberating Zoom: Strategies for Better Online Discussions

Friday, August 21, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  Join the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities this Friday for a highly interactive, hands-on exploration of strategies that help build more inclusive and engaged teaching and research communities, online and in person. Liberating Structures, led by Anna Jackson and Fisher Qua, is a methodology grounded in the idea that the strategies commonly…

Posted by on August 19, 2020 in Events, Online Education, online teaching, Zoom

Center for Second Language Studies- Fall 2020 Orientation

The CSLS Community is invited to attend the virtual CSLS orientation with guest speaker Shannon Riggs on “Engaging Students From a Distance.” The orientation will be held over Zoom on August 20th from 10am-10:45am.
Zoom Link: https://vanderbilt.zoom.us…

Posted by on August 12, 2020 in Center for Second Language Studies, CSLS, Events, foreign language teaching, Language Pedagogy, remote teaching

Teaching Assistant Orientation

Many graduate students are awarded teaching assistantships, and while teaching assistant (TA) duties vary across departments, they all demand considerable skill and knowledge. These duties can include grading, consulting with students during office hours, leading discussion or problem sessions, teaching labs, or giving lectures. To assist new TAs as they prepare for their duties, the Vanderbilt…

Posted by on August 5, 2020 in Events, Resource, TAO, Teaching Assistants

Brush up on Some Essential Brightspace skills

Brush up on some essential Brightspace skills before teaching in an online or hybrid format this fall. Join Stacey, the CFT’s Assistant Director for Educational Technology, on Zoom for workshops about Brightspace tools including Discussions and Grades/Feedback. You can register and learn more about the available workshops on the Brightspace workshops page. If you will be…

Posted by on August 4, 2020 in brightspace, Events, Resource, workshops

August Workshops from the Center for Teaching

For faculty and other instructors looking for a lot of ideas for teaching this fall in a short amount of time, the Center for Teaching is offering a variety of online workshops in August. Some workshops are focused on teaching with Brightspace, Vanderbilt’s course management system, while others focus on other aspects of adaptive teaching in…

Posted by on August 3, 2020 in brightspace, Events, Grading, hybrid teaching, online teaching, Resource, Teaching Workshops

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