| 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 20th and 21st, right before the first day of the fall semester. Topics at the CFT’s Just-in-Time Teaching Conference include: Presentation Renovation: Choosing The Right Tools Date: Monday, August 20th
Time: 9:00-10:30am Session includes breakfast
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Rhett McDaniel
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Teaching Inclusively to Diverse Groups Date: Monday, August 20th
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm Session includes lunch
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Joe Bandy
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What’s in Your Syllabus? Date: Monday, August 20th
Time: 1:00-2:00pm Session includes refreshments
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Cynthia Brame
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Intro to Brightspace Course Management System Date: Monday, August 20th
Time: 2:30-4:00pm Session includes refreshments
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Stacey Johnson
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Small Changes, Big Results Date: Tuesday August 21st
Time: 9:00-10:30am Session includes breakfast
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Cynthia Brame
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Teaching With Top Hat: Vanderbilt’s Classroom Response System Date: Tuesday, August, 21st
Time: 11:00-12:30am Session includes lunch
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Rhett McDaniel
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Leading Classroom Discussions Date: Tuesday, August, 21st
Time: 1:00-2:00pm Session includes refreshments
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Joe Bandy
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Students as Producers: Creative Assignments for Deep Learning Date: Tuesday, August 21st
Time: 2:30-3:30pm Session includes refreshments
Location: Center for Teaching Classroom
Facilitator: Derek Bruff
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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. See orientation page for details. Date: Thursday, August 16th
Time: 1:30-5:00pm
Location: Buttrick Hall
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Need Help Using Brightspace as you Plan for Fall Classes?
As you prepare your fall courses, keep in mind all of the Brightspace resources we offer here at the Center for Teaching. - If you prefer to peruse our on-demand resources on your own, we have a growing list of frequently asked questions that include step-by-step instructions and screenshots.
- If you want to sit down with one of our knowledgeable instructional technologists face-to-face, we offer in-person consults year round, including the summer months! Just email us at Brightspace@vanderbilt.edu to request an appointment.
- If you think one of our group workshops might be for you, keep your eye on this space. In July, we will announce our schedule of workshops and drop-in hours for the fall semester, including daily offerings in the month of August!
- Finally, if you have a group of faculty in your program who would like Brightspace training or drop-in support in your space, let us know. We often take our team on the road to meet with faculty across campus, and we would be happy to work with you.
Please reach out if you need support. If we don’t already have an offering that will work for you, we would love the opportunity to work with you to get you the Brightspace support you need to make the most out of your online course components.
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| Newly Revised CFT Guide on Creating Accessible Learning Environments Graduate Teaching Fellow, Amie Thurber, along with Assistant Director Joe Bandy, have prepared a newly updated teaching guide for creating inclusive and accessible higher education classrooms. While it is first and foremost designed to help instructors in their efforts to create inclusive equality for disabled students, it has content that will help all students access, and thrive in, the learning environments we offer.
This updated guide is an outcome from the CFT's learning community on Disability and Learning, the fourth in the CFT's series of yearly learning communities on Teaching, Difference, and Power. The guide also provides information about on-campus resources that may offer support, as well as a short history of the disability rights movements and higher education, along with theoretical perspectives on the topic.
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| From the CFT Stacks
Edited by: Frank Tuitt, Chayla Haynes and Saran Stewart
Faculty and administrators in higher education around the world are becoming aware of the need to address the systemic practices and barriers that contribute to inequitable educational outcomes of racially and ethnically diverse students.
Focusing on the higher education learning environment, this volume explains the global relevance of critical and inclusive pedagogies (CIP), and demonstrates how their application can transform the teaching and learning process and promote more equitable educational outcomes among all students, but especially racially minoritized students.
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