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Upcoming Faculty Teaching Visit with Doug Fisher on October 17th

The Teaching Visits program is an important way by which the CFT promotes collaborative inquiry and reflection. Specifically, the Teaching Visits program provides case-based opportunities for Vanderbilt teachers to consider choices they have when constructing their classes. A small group…

Posted by tveitts on October 10, 2013 in Events, News

Upcoming Teaching Worshop – Beyond the Five-Page Paper: Representing Student Learning Visually

Date: Wednesday, October 16th Time: 3:10 – 4:30 Location: Center for Teaching Facilitators: Derek Bruff and Nancy Chick Audience: Faculty, Students (Undergraduate and Graduate), and Staff There’s no rule that says students must express what they’ve learned in a college…

Posted by tveitts on October 9, 2013 in Events, News

Upcoming Faculty Teaching Visit with Jay Clayton on October 15th

Posted by tveitts on October 8, 2013 in Events, News

Medical Education Grand Rounds, Tuesday, October 1st, Featuring CFT Associate Director Cynthia Brame

The Office for Health Sciences Education, Educator Development Core and the Academy for Excellence in Teaching presents “Flipping the Classroom” In a recent article, this month’s speaker, Cynthia Brame, Ph.D., Assistant Director, at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, characterized “flipping the…

Posted by tveitts on September 23, 2013 in Events, News

Upcoming “Students as Producers” Conversation on Teaching, September 25th

As part of our “Students as Producers” theme year, the Center for Teaching will share and explore ways that instructors can teach for this kind of learning. Students, particularly undergraduates, are often seen as “consumers” of knowledge, memorizing information delivered…

Posted by tveitts on September 18, 2013 in Events, News

Upcoming Faculty Teaching Visit with Christopher Loss on September 24th

Posted by tveitts on September 17, 2013 in Events, News

Upcoming Teaching. Writing. Learning: Conversation with Scott Juengel

Sponsored by the Center for Teaching, the Writing Studio, and the Heard Library; “Teaching. Writing. Learning.” is a series of monthly lunchtime conversations for anyone who teaches writing at Vanderbilt to gather and discuss specific issues, hear an invited…

Posted by tveitts on September 11, 2013 in Events, News

Conversations on Teaching Writing Under Way

“Teaching. Writing. Learning.,” the new series of conversations on teaching writing across the campus, began last Wednesday. Emily King (English), Richard Lloyd (Sociology), and Jonathan Gilligan (Earth & Environmental Sciences) were the invited guests for kick-off event entitled “Starting the…

Posted by Nancy Chick on September 5, 2013 in Conversations on Teaching, Events, News, Teaching Writing

Celebrating the Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows

The following is a short speech delivered by Assistant Professor of Theatre, Christin Essin, at the May 3, 2013 Celebration of Teaching. In 2012-13, Christin was one of the Center for Teaching’s Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. She delivered these remarks…

Posted by Rhett McDaniel on May 13, 2013 in CFT Programs, Events, jftf program, Junior Faculty, News

From a Student’s View – Large Classes

This is a guest post by Emily Garcia, Vanderbilt Class of 2014, College of Arts and Sciences. The post is part of our ongoing “From a Student’s View” blog series. We occasionally feature guest posts here on the blog as…

Posted by Rhett McDaniel on February 20, 2013 in Clickers, Educational Technology, Events, From a Student's View, Large Classes, News

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