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graduate student/postdoc workshop: crafting an effective teaching statement
sep. 11, 2019—in this workshop, we will address best practices for writing a teaching statement/philosophy for the academic job market. this workshop is open to vanderbilt graduate students & postdocs from across the disciplines who want to improve their teaching portfolio materials. all teaching experience levels are welcome. date: monday, september 16 time: 12:30-2:00 pm location:...
cft announces new graduate teaching fellows
sep. 10, 2019—l to r: chad carpenter (mechanical engineering), rachel gould (english), leah roberts (human & organizational development), and chelsea yarborough (religion) the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 is excited to announce the graduate teaching fellows for 2019-20. gtfs provide a variety of services for vanderbilt’s graduate, post docs and professional students, including one-on-one consultations on teaching issues and professional development, syllabus...
vanderbilt instructors open their classroom doors september 9-13
sep. 9, 2019—would you like to watch one of your colleagues teach to see how they manage the classroom, engage students, or address challenging subjects? do you ever feel like you toil in private to learn how to teach? you’re not alone. too often in higher education we instructors do not have the opportunity to watch and...
teaching innovations at vanderbilt: dana kan and low-stakes retrieval midterms
sep. 3, 2019—by faith rovenolt, cft undergraduate intern i love interviewing professors for this blog series; every time i do it, i learn something new. speaking with dr. dana kan, an assistant professor in the department of hearing and speech sciences at 瑞士vs喀麦隆走地 medical center, i learned that classroom acoustics constitute an important aspect of the...
big classes, name tents, and anxiety in the classroom
aug. 28, 2019—by cynthia j. brame, cft associate director classes at my institution started last week, which means that my co-teacher and i greeted just over 150 students in our biochemistry class. when i start the semester, i’m always struck by how many students there are, and how a big class like this would not have brought...
cft proudly welcomes the 2019 cohort of junior faculty teaching fellows!
aug. 21, 2019—l to r: audrey bowden (biomedical engineering), daniela d’eugenio (french & italian), misty evans (nursing), gautam hans (law), brittany haskell (nursing), allison leich hilbun (biological sciences), clinton leonard (nursing), elliott mccarter (asian studies), justus ndukaife (electrical engineering & computer science), ipek oguz (electrical engineering & computer science), jennifer ridgway (nursing), letizia smith (nursing), kim steanson...
teaching innovations at vanderbilt: chris candelaria and poster sessions
aug. 19, 2019—by faith rovenolt, cft undergraduate intern for the first time in this blog series, i was able to go and see the teaching innovation i would write about. during 2019 spring semester, i visited the end-of-semester poster sessions held for hode 3225: introduction to public finance of education, which is taught by chris candelaria. candelaria...