Episode 12 – Brooke Ackerly on Time-Efficient Teaching
This episode continues our podcast series focusing on time-efficient teaching. Faculty at a research university like Vanderbilt must balance a number of competing demands on their time, including teaching, research, and service. For this series, we’re interviewing senior faculty members at Vanderbilt and asking them to share ways they teach effectively while making good use of their time.
In this episode, we feature an interview with Brooke Ackerly, associate professor of political science. In the interview, Brooke describes time-efficient ways to approach course planning, lesson planning, office hours, and grading. Kat Baker, an assistant director at the Center for Teaching, conducted the interview.
Episode 12 – Brooke Ackerly on Time-Efficient Teaching
[MP3, 13 min 38 sec]
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