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Upcoming Workshop: Inclusive Teaching

Date: Monday, August 23rd Time: 9:00 -10:30am Facilitator: Joe Bandy, CFT assistant director This workshop provides an introduction to some of the foundational principles and practices of inclusive teaching.  Inclusive teaching is that which supports all students in their efforts to find greater belonging, equity, and trust in a course’s learning community.  Inclusive teaching is predicated upon thinking through…

Posted by on August 19, 2021 in Events, Teaching Difference and Power, workshops

Digital Media Lab Open House

Date: Monday, August 23rd Time: 1:00-3:00pm Location: Digital Commons, 1101 19th Ave. South, Room 012 Facilitators: Rhett McDaniel, CFT assistant director Tracye Davis, digital media specialist Seth Shepherd, digital media specialist Visit the CFT’s new Digital Media Lab located in the Digital Commons. This new facility provides instructors with the software, equipment, environment, and instructional staff needed to…

Posted by on August 19, 2021 in CFT Event, digital media, Educational Technology, Events, News

Upcoming Workshop: Teaching for Wellbeing

Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 Time: 1:00 – 2:30 Facilitators: Julaine Fowlin, CFT assistant director and Stacy Simplican, Senior Lecturer, Gender and Sexuality Studies Wellbeing is not the absence of challenges, but being equipped with internal and external resources to cope. The return to campus may bring new challenges. In this workshop, we will give an overview of…

Posted by on August 13, 2021 in Events, Health and Wellness, workshops

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,…

Posted by on August 12, 2021 in Events, Orientation, Teaching Assistants

Upcoming Workshop: Teaching with Top Hat

Date: Thursday, August 12th Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Location: Zoom Facilitator: Rhett McDaniel, CFT assistant director Guest Faculty: Jesse Blocher, associate professor of the practice of data science and finance   In this session you’ll hear about Top Hat, Vanderbilt’s student polling application. Top Hat allows you to ask multiple question types, receive responses, and generate discussions with real-time feedback…

Posted by on August 10, 2021 in Events, News, Top Hat, workshop

Upcoming Workshop: The Flipped Classroom

Date: Wednesday, August 11th Time: 2:00-3:00pm Facilitator: Cynthia Brame, CFT associate director Panelists: Chris Candelaria, Leadership, Policy, and Organizations Lars Plate, Biological Sciences and Chemistry Heeryoon Shin, History of Art Faculty panelists share lessons from pandemic teaching that will shape how they have students prepare for class and what they have them do in class this fall. REGISTER (A…

Posted by on August 9, 2021 in Course Design, Events, workshops

Online Teaching Learning Community

Even before the campus-wide move to online and remote teaching last year, the online teaching group was meeting regularly to explore challenges and opportunities. The Course Development Resources site (CDR), which has grown out of the work of this group over the last two years, is a self-paced guide to designing, building, teaching, or maintaining great courses…

Posted by on June 21, 2021 in Commentary, Events, Learning Communities, Online Education, online teaching

Learning Community Focusing on the Needs of LGBTQI+ Students

This year, the CFT and the KC Potter Center for LGBTQI Life hosted a learning community on ways faculty can better support the needs of LGBTQI+ students.  Over twenty participants met throughout the year to explore LGBTQI+ student’s experiences inside and outside the classroom, to discuss scholarly literature on strategies for inclusion, and techniques of…

Posted by on June 18, 2021 in Commentary, Events, Inclusive Teaching, Learning Communities, LGBTQI, News, potter center

Learning Community on Teaching and Race

In 2020-21, the CFT hosted a learning community dedicated to understanding the many challenges and opportunities of teaching issues of race, and supporting students of all racial identities and backgrounds.  In five events throughout the year, dozens of participants from across the disciplines engaged in a variety of conversations about the challenges of teaching race…

Posted by on June 17, 2021 in Commentary, Events, Learning Communities, News, Race and Racism, Teaching and Race

CFT Concludes Latest Online Course Design Institute

To help faculty prepare for teaching this Summer, we offered an Online Course Design Institute (OCDI). The institute was a revised and updated version of the institute that the Center for Teaching offered in summer 2020 to more than 500 participants. Participants worked in three cohorts led by CFT Senior Staff Members Cynthia Brame, Julaine…

Posted by on June 16, 2021 in Commentary, Events, News, ocdi, online course design institute, online courses, Online Education, online teaching

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