‘junior faculty’
junior faculty teaching fellow spotlight:amanda goodwin
jan. 15, 2012—each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month, amanda goodwin, assistant professor in the department of teaching and learning at peabody college, talks about her teaching philosophy and interests: my main research goal is to improve literacy through better understanding how students can use morphological awareness (or...
junior faculty teaching fellow spotlight: emily nacol
dec. 7, 2011—“the initial challenge for undergraduate teachers of classic texts like the ones on my syllabi is finding a way to ease students’ trepidation about their ability to understand, much less criticize, daunting works like plato’s republic or marx’s capital.” a class of many students generates a diverse set of comments and questions, but as i...
junior faculty teaching fellow spotlight: humberto garcia
nov. 7, 2011— each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month, humberto garcia, assistant professor in the english department talks about his teaching philosophy and interests: “by using youtube videos, paintings, e-mail, films, blog websites, etc., my goal is to access my students’ media ecology, the sites in which...
junior faculty teaching fellow spotlight: ioana suvaina
oct. 5, 2011—each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month, ioana suvaina, assistant professor in the mathematics department talks about her teaching philosophy and interests: college is a wonderful period in one’s life. it is a time of discovering the world around us through science, art and interactions. it...
junior faculty teaching fellow spotlight: jon edd
sep. 23, 2011—each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month, jon edd, assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department talks about his teaching philosophy and interests: after teaching thermodynamics for a year and a half, i find that one of the primary challenges for students is to assimilate the...
new jftfs announced
aug. 8, 2011—this year’s junior faculty teaching fellows are, left to right, jon edd (engineering), humberto garcia (english, not pictured), amanda goodwin (teaching and learning), emily nacol (political science), evelyn patterson (sociology), david petrain (classics), paul stob (communications), and ioana suvaina (mathematics). research by robert boice (advice for new faculty, 2000) and others indicates that junior faculty...
junior faculty teaching fellow spotlight: lijun song
may. 6, 2011—each month, the cft newsletter highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month, lijun song, assistant professor in the department of sociology and the center for medicine, health, and society talks about her teaching philosophy and interests. “social interaction between teachers and students must be reciprocal and cooperative. a teacher should identify...
myvu highlights celebration of teaching
may. 5, 2011—an article by kara furlong appeared in myvu on thursday, may 5, 2011, which highlighted the center’s celebration of teaching. faculty and graduate students who participated in vanderbilt 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 programs this academic year talked about the value of their experiences, and teaching certificates were awarded to 14 graduate students, at the celebration of teaching may...
vanderbilt view article about cft’s junior faculty teaching fellowship highlights phillip ackerman-lieberman
apr. 12, 2011—teaching well by joan brasher the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分’s new fellowship helps junior faculty craft their curriculum phillip ackerman-lieberman knows a lot about economics, the talmud, rabbinic ordination and more. but when he arrived at vanderbilt in 2009, there was something he wasn’t quite ready to handle despite his three master’s degrees and ph.d....
junior faculty teaching fellow spotlight: sean m. polyn
apr. 6, 2011—each month, the cft blog highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows. this month, sean polyn, assistant professor of psychology talks about his teaching philosophy and interests. my research focuses on how people remember things that happened to them recently. since starting, i have taught principles of experimental design twice. this is a...