This spring, CFT continues to host a learning community with Meredyth Wegener (Neuroscience) on antiracist learning to better understand how higher education, teaching and learning systems work in practice and in our Disciplines can be resolved rather than restoring racial marginalization and exclusion. ์นด์ง๋ ธ์ฌ์ดํธ
Much of the discussion will focus on the challenges. Also opportunities facing white educators against racism, but all are welcome regardless of identity, discipline, or experience.
Topics we will cover include teaching in predominantly white institutions, Caucasian stories. However, the impact of racist social structures on higher education, inclusive and equitable education. Interracial partnership practices, and race and racism teaching strategies.
Overall, we hope participants will engage with one another in a co-creative and personal process of open exploration of their teaching philosophy and strategies. while providing camaraderie, accountability, and mutual encouragement.
Anti-racism education is an educational approach that actively recognizes and challenges systemic racism in society and the ways in which it can manifest itself in the classroom.
The goal is to create an inclusive, equitable and respectful learning environment for all students, regardless of race or ethnicity. Continuing engagement in self-reflection and learning about the history of racism. Its impact on different communities is essential to furthering antiracist education.
Teachers also need to actively work to identify and challenge their own prejudices and assumptions about students and their abilities. In addition, teaching anti-racism requires incorporating diverse perspectives and experiences into the curriculum and employing inclusive teaching strategies that allow all students to participate in the learning process.
This may involve strategies such as teamwork, active listening and share problem solving. Ultimately, antiracist education is about recognizing and addressing the power dynamics that exist in the classroom and in society as a whole, and working to create a more just and just world for all.
Providing Student Feedback
In this high school life, when students are completing a multitude of assignments. It is important to provide them with meaningful feedback that guides their future performance and supports their development. Effective feedback can take many forms, but students find it most helpful. Yet, when it teaches them what they’re doing right.
What they’re not doing, when it’s timely. When it’s as individualize as possible, and when it’s available, when it’s provided Performance improvement models or examples.
Because effective feedback is often contrast with effective feedback, and because time is of the essence for teachers and students. There are several techniques that can be use to make feedback more timely. This includes using rubrics that may have been designed with students and prepare the language for different levels of proficiency base on different criteria.
Self-evaluation or peer feedback processes can also be use to empower students. Their self-evaluation while reducing the time it takes teachers to complete each activity. ์จ๋ผ์ธ์นด์ง๋ ธ์ฌ์ดํธ
Finally, you can search for common problems or suggestions in class assignments and assign them to students in groups instead of multiple individual assignments.
Work with CFT!
Each year, The Learning Center (CFT) employs a number of alumni as part of its efforts to mentor and train graduate instructors on campus, including those who serve as teaching assistants or Vanderbilt-certified instructors, and those seeking teaching skills for the prospective teaching want to develop career.
The CFT offers two types of positions for PhD students for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Teacher Partner
The training partner’s main responsibility is to guide the incoming TA cohort through the 3-day synchronous and asynchronous workshops during the TA training in August.
These workshops introduce new teaching assistants to the challenges. And opportunities of working as a teaching assistant at Vanderbilt and help them prepare for their roles.
The cohorts are divided by discipline, so CFT is looking for teaching partners who represent different disciplines on campus. The Learning Partner position includes 70 hours, most of which fall in August 2023, and a salary of $1,000.
University Teaching Certificate (CiCT) Facilitator
The CiCT Facilitator leads the CiCT portion of the program. The facilitator reads and prepares lesson plans, conducts class meetings, and participates in weekly meetings with the Associate Director of Graduate Programs. When the CiCT program takes place (8 weeks per semester) the approximate workload is 5-10 hours per week.
The CiCT Program Facilitator position has a total salary of $3,000 and we expect to hire three over the next year. ๋ฐ์นด๋ผ์ฌ์ดํธ