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Our offerings are available to any members of the Vanderbilt community interested in developing their teaching practices. Welcome Jennifer Ogg Wilson! Feb. 13, 2024— We are proud to announce that Jennifer Ogg Wilson has joined of the Office of Education Design and Development (formerly the Center for Teaching) as its new Director. As a Vanderbilt alumna with a Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science, she is thrilled to be back on campus. A seasoned learning facilitator, she has created... Read more Giving Students Feedback Nov. 9, 2023— At this time in the semester when students are handing in an assortment of assignments, it is important to provide meaningful feedback to guide their growth. Effective feedback can come in a variety of forms, but students find it most helpful when it is educative about what they are doing well and not so well,... Read more Teaching in Tumultuous Times Nov. 7, 2023— Despite our aspirations for our classrooms to be home to open inquiry and reasoned, informed debate, sometimes the intensely traumatic nature of current events can overwhelm us or our students. Whether it is recurring incidents of mass violence, the persistence of social or environmental crises, or polarized political debate in our public sphere, just to... Read more Interdisciplinary Teaching workshop Nov. 1, 2023— Are you teaching a subject that is inter- or multi-disciplinary and somewhat outside of your comfort zone? Are you team teaching a course with someone from another discipline and adjusting to their discipline’s ways of thinking or signature pedagogies”? Are you hoping that your students develop a thoroughly multi-disciplinary understanding of a topic, but not... Read more Transforming Classroom Conflict into Learning workshop Oct. 30, 2023— In these times of political polarization and contentious dialogue throughout our society, it is not uncommon for educators across the curriculum to experience, or at least fear, student conflict in the classroom. Whether it is due to differences sparked by ideology, identity, or simple intellectual disagreement, student conflicts may stray beyond productive debate into highly... Read more Developing Collaborative Assignments workshop Oct. 26, 2023— Research indicates that collaborative assignments and projects can promote meaningful learning by inviting students to address complex problems while engaging the insights and perspectives of others. In this workshop, participants will develop an outline for a collaborative group project or assignment that they plan to deploy in the spring semester. Co-facilitated by Boni Yraguen (PhD, Mechanical Engineering) and Laura Carter-Stone (PhD, Teaching and Learning),... Read more Using a Process-Oriented Approach to Student Writing to Deepen Learning and Engagement workshop Oct. 19, 2023— Research suggests that providing students repeated opportunities to create, evaluate, and revise various types of writing, especially for authentic audiences, can catalyze deeper forms of learning. Through this workshop, we will discuss research-based strategies for improving student writing and content learning in a variety of disciplinary areas. Participants will either revise an existing writing assignment... Read more « Previous Page Upcoming Events Spring 2024 teaching workshops are underway! To find out more about workshops being offered, check out our Teaching Workshops page . 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