July 2017

It’s never too late to make a good decision, right?  Although planning fall courses starts long before the start of classes, we recognize that many instructors are still making course design and implementation decisions right up to the wire.  That’s why we’re offering a variety of teaching workshops for Vanderbilt instructors on August 18th and 22nd, right before the first day of the fall semester.  Topics at the CFT’s Just-in-Time Teaching Conference include:

Teaching With Top Hat: Vanderbilt’s New Classroom Response System
Drop-in hours, for one-on-one assistance with Top Hat, will be available following the session throughout the day.
Date: Friday, August, 18th
Time:
9:30-10:45am Session includes breakfast
Location:
Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Kara Dingboom, Enterprise Account Manager at Top Hat
Teaching Inclusively to Diverse Groups
Date: Friday, August 18th
Time: 11:30am-1:00pm Session includes lunch
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Joe Bandy, CFT Assistant Director
Intro to Brightspace Course Management System
Date: Friday, August 18th
Time: 2:00-3:30pm Session includes refreshments
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Lee Scarborough, Instructional Technologist
What’s in Your Syllabus?
Date: Tuesday, August 22nd
Time: 9:00-10:30am Session includes breakfast
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Cynthia Brame, CFT Assistant Director

Presentation Renovation: Choosing The Right Tools

Date: Tuesday, August 22nd
Time: 11:30am-1:00pm Session includes lunch
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Rhett McDaniel, CFT Educational Technologist

Small Changes, Big Results

Date: Tuesday, August 22nd
Time: 1:30-2:45pm Session includes refreshments
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Vivian Finch, CFT Assistant Director

Students as Producers Creative Assignments for Deep Learning

Date: Tuesday, August 22nd
Time: 3:00-4:00pm Session includes refreshments
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Derek Bruff, CFT Director

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Teaching at Vanderbilt New Faculty Orientation
At the beginning of every academic year, the Center for Teaching hosts “Teaching at Vanderbilt,” an orientation for junior and senior faculty new to Vanderbilt.
The orientation features an introduction to strategies for launching a successful teaching career at Vanderbilt, with concurrent sessions on a variety of practical topics. Teaching at Vanderbilt is an opportunity for new faculty to meet each other and to learn how the Center for Teaching can support them throughout their Vanderbilt careers.
Date: Thursday, August 17th
Time: 1:00-5:00pm
Location: Buttrick Hall

See orientation page for details
REGISTER
Learn about Vanderbilt’s NEW Classroom Response System
Top Hat is the first classroom response system to be adopted campus-wide at Vanderbilt. Top Hat will be available to faculty, students, and staff across campus starting July 2017.  Instructors teaching with “clickers” are invited to consider Top Hat for in-class student polling.
In this web-based introductory session, Kara Dingboom, Enterprise Account Manager at Top Hat, will help you become familiar with the basic functions and features of the product.
Date: Thursday, July 13th
Time: 2:00- 3:00 pm
Locaton: Participate from your computer
Register
Newly Revised CFT Guide on Course Design

The Understanding by Design teaching guide was recently updated by Ryan Bowen, a graduate teaching fellow at the Center for Teaching. Understanding by Design is a book written by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe that offers a framework for designing courses, content units, and lessons. The teaching guide walks readers through “backward design” which is one of the primary design approaches mentioned in Understanding by Design.
The guide explores the benefits of using backward design as compared to traditional methods of instructional planning, and then it elaborates on the three stages of the process as established by Wiggins and McTighe. Finally, the guide offers a planning template for readers to engage with the backward design process. Blank templates can be downloaded alongside a model template that is complete with descriptions to ensure clarity of what is being asked at each stage.
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From the CFT Stacks
The Power of Integrated Learning
by William M. Sullivan

To help educators accomplish the goals of learner-centered teaching, this book presents the meaning, practice, and ramifications of the learner-centered approach, and how this approach transforms the college classroom environment. Learner-Centered Teaching shows how to tie teaching and curriculum to the process and objectives of learning rather than to content delivery alone. Throughout the book, the author illustrates the difference between teacher-centered and learner-centered instruction and offers practical strategies for creating learner-centered courses.

Available in the Center for Teaching library.
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