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queer teaching, queer thriving learning community

jun. 21, 2022—by joe bandy throughout the past academic year, the cft was honored to co-host with the kc potter center for lgbtqi life a learning community to help faculty and staff better support the needs of lgbtqi students. we discussed a variety of topics ranging from faculty well-being to inclusive teaching, from queer pedagogy to student mental health. ...

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queer teaching, queer thriving learning community

mar. 21, 2022—the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 and the k.c. potter center for lgbtqi life are proud to continue our queer teaching, queer thriving learning community in 2021-2022 with a conversation and workshop hosted by stephanie mahnke, vanderbilt’s new director of the kcpc and lgbtqi life. building upon our fall conversations about lgbtqi+ well-being and queer pedagogy, this...

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join a cft learning community!

feb. 22, 2022—learning assistant instructors  learning assistants, or las, are undergraduates who serve as peer educators in courses that they have previously taken. supported by training in pedagogy, they extend the reach of faculty members implementing active learning components in a course and help provide personalized experiences that increase students’ sense of belonging. in this learning community,...

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join the online teaching and course design learning community

sep. 27, 2021—this learning community is for those who want to dig deeper into online course design principles in order to create excellent. group members work together to contribute to the cft’s online course development resources website. register

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join queer teaching, queer thriving: a learning community on inclusive teaching for all educators

sep. 23, 2021—the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 and the k.c. potter center for lgbtqi life are proud to offer a 2021-2022 learning community about ways campus educators may help lgbtqi students to thrive academically and socially. open to all faculty, graduate students, and staff of any background, the learning community will discuss a wide variety of issues: the...

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join the learning assistant instructors learning community

sep. 21, 2021—learning assistants, or las, are undergraduates who serve as peer educators in courses that they have previously taken. supported by training in pedagogy, they extend the reach of faculty members implementing active learning components in a course and help provide personalized experiences that increase students’ sense of belonging. in this learning community, faculty who are...

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online teaching learning community

jun. 21, 2021—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...

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learning community focusing on the needs of lgbtqi+ students

jun. 18, 2021—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...

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learning community on teaching and race

jun. 17, 2021—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...

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investigating student learning journal club

jun. 11, 2021—this spring, a group of graduate students and faculty members worked with graduate teaching fellow leah roberts and associate director cynthia brame to explore different approaches that can be used to investigate how and what our students are learning. discussing research articles that illustrated a range of methods and questions, we identified possibilities for interrogating...

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