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ask professor pedagogy: encouraging participation from all
jun. 14, 2013—ask professor pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 staff. one aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly those from vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. if you have a question that you’d like...
summer reading recommendations from cft staff
jun. 4, 2013—by cft assistant director nancy chick for many of us in academia, june brings relatively empty calendars and full reading lists. i love hearing what friends and colleagues are planning on reading during the summer and what they’d suggest for others’ lists, so i again asked my 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 colleagues for their recommendations. last...
ask professor pedagogy: gender & teaching
may. 31, 2013—ask professor pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 staff. one aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly those from vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. if you have a question that you’d like...
ask professor pedagogy: designing learning spaces
may. 17, 2013—ask professor pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 staff. one aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly those from vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. if you have a question that you’d like...
social pedagogies: language teaching with google earth and wikis
may. 16, 2013—by andrew greer, 2013 teaching certificate recipient and 2012-13 sotl scholar many of us have memories of foreign language classes with seemingly never-ending repetitions of semi-useful phrases. i remember learning german for years, only to be surprised by my lack of fluency when i traveled to austria. the repetition of banal phrases in my german...
junior faculty teaching fellows reflect on exemplary teaching
may. 9, 2013—by lyndsey fyffe, 2013 teaching certificate recipient exemplary teaching was the theme and mantra of the “innovative and effective teaching by junior faculty: cases from the junior faculty teaching fellows” session at the may 3rd celebration of teaching at vanderbilt. interested junior faculty members in the audience were introduced to the junior faculty teaching fellows...
ask professor pedagogy: assigning and grading writing
may. 3, 2013—ask professor pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 staff. one aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly those from vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. if you have a question that you’d like...
ask professor pedagogy: handling overachievers
apr. 24, 2013—by adam wilsman (professor p. is outside flying a kite) ask professor pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 staff. one aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly those from vanderbilt faculty,...
ask professor pedagogy: grading efficiently
apr. 19, 2013—ask professor pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 staff. one aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly those from vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. if you have a question that you’d like...
learner-centered teaching at vanderbilt
apr. 10, 2013—by nancy chick, cft assistant director some of us at the cft recently read and discussed maryellen weimer’s new edition of learner-centered teaching: five key changes to practice (2013). simply put, learner-centered teaching aims to create active, independent thinkers who understand the processes and value of learning and apply this understanding to new contexts. weimer...