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Cumberland Project in August 2022

By Joe Bandy In this time of environmental uncertainty and crisis higher education plays a vital role in helping the public meet the numerous challenges to sustainability, especially understanding and responding to climate change. Vanderbilt has taken up this challenge in a variety of forms, the latest of which is formation of the Climate and…

Posted by on June 8, 2022 in climate and environmental studies, Collaborative Learning, Course Design, Events, interdisciplinary, News, Resource, workshop

Queer Teaching, Queer Thriving Learning Community

The Center for Teaching and the K.C. Potter Center for LGBTQI Life are proud to continue our Queer Teaching, Queer Thriving learning community in 2021-2022 with a conversation and workshop hosted by Stephanie Mahnke, Vanderbilt’s new Director of the KCPC and LGBTQI Life. Building upon our Fall conversations about LGBTQI+ well-being and Queer Pedagogy, this…

Posted by on March 21, 2022 in Events, Inclusive Teaching, Learning Communities, News, queer pedagogy

Preparing Syllabi for Your First Faculty Job

This working group will support graduates students and postdocs who will be new faculty in the Fall of 2022 and expected to teach their own classes. Starting a new faculty position is stressful and demanding; the CFT hopes to ease this transition by helping graduating doctoral students and postdocs create their needed syllabi in advance…

Posted by on March 15, 2022 in Events, Faculty, Resource, syllabus, working groups,

Reaching Students through Open Pedagogy and Digital Media

In this workshop, participants will be invited to consider how they might pursue a more open pedagogy through the creation and sharing of digital media. Andy Wesolek, director of digital scholarship and scholarly communications at the Vanderbilt Libraries, will explore the practice of open pedagogy and the benefits it can bring to faculty and to…

Posted by on January 24, 2022 in Digital Commons, digital media, Digital Pedagogy, Events, News, Resource, Teaching Workshops, workshop

From the Executive Director

  As I write this, snow is falling in Nashville, and I’m reminded of all the challenges our local community has faced over the last two years, from tornadoes and storms to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The teaching community at Vanderbilt has had to adapt again and again over the last two years, and I…

Posted by on January 18, 2022 in About the CFT, CFT Programs, CFT Services, CFT staff, Events, News, Resource

Teach Coding? Learn About a tool for integrating enhanced Jupyter Notebooks into Your Teaching

As part of a Course Improvement Grant project, associate professor of biomedical engineering Will Grissom been using Pathbird, a tool that runs enhanced Jupyter notebooks (in Python, Julia, or R). It allows students to navigate to their site with no additional setup, and the instructor can interleave autograders, multiple choice questions, and short answer questions with…

Posted by on December 6, 2021 in Commentary, computer science, Events, Resource, STEM teaching, Zoom

Teaching with Case Studies

Case studies are a signature pedagogy throughout the professions and increasingly across all liberal arts disciplines.  When used effectively, they can motivate students to learn deeply through meaningful, complex, and real-world scenarios, elevating anything from analytical thought to ethical reasoning, applied practices to theoretical critique. This workshop will explore how case studies are or can…

Posted by on November 4, 2021 in Case Studies, Events, News, Teaching Workshops, workshops, Zoom

Workshop: Teaching with Case Studies

Case studies are a signature pedagogy throughout the professions and increasingly across all liberal arts disciplines.  When used effectively, they can motivate students to learn deeply through meaningful, complex, and real-world scenarios, elevating anything from analytical thought to ethical reasoning, applied practices to theoretical critique. This workshop will explore how case studies are or can…

Posted by on November 1, 2021 in Case Studies, Events, News, Teaching Workshops, workshops, Zoom

Workshop: Decolonizing Our Teaching

The exhortation to “decolonize” our syllabi and our teaching more generally has become increasingly common across higher education in recent years. For its many advocates, decolonization can include a wide variety of practices, such as the acknowledgement of indigenous land claims, understanding how the culture of colonialism has shaped our disciplines, diversifying the canons of…

Posted by on October 26, 2021 in Events, Inclusive Teaching, News, Teaching Workshops, workshops, Zoom

ASPIRE Job Search Series: Preparing for a Teaching Demo

How do you put together an effective teaching demonstration for a job interview? How is it different from a research seminar and how can you link the two? Come learn about key considerations for developing this important piece of your interview portfolio. Date: Thursday, October 21 Time: 11:00 Location: Light Hall 419 BCD REGISTER ….

Posted by on October 18, 2021 in Events, News, Teaching Workshops, workshops, ,

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