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Welcome to Laura Carter-Stone!
Jul. 18, 2023—The CFT is very proud to welcome Laura Carter-Stone as our new Postdoctoral Fellow. Laura Carter-Stone is an alumna of Grinnell College and the University of Kentucky, and received her PhD in Teaching, Learning, and Diversity with a specialization in Language, Literacy, and Culture from Peabody College, Vanderbilt. After teaching in K-12 schools, she developed...
The CFT Thanks Our Graduate Teaching Fellows
Jun. 8, 2023—The CFT wants to express our deepest gratitude to the 2022-2023 Graduate Teaching Fellows for their unwavering commitment to teaching values and for completing their 12 months of fellowship. To further the university’s teaching mission, our outstanding Fellows demonstrated exceptional professionalism, and expertise and provided optimal pedagogical consultations to other graduate students and postdocs, designed...
JFTF Spotlight on Danyelle Valentine
May. 25, 2023—Throughout the year, the CFT highlights the work of their Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Danyelle Valentine shares about her work as a Fellow. I am a Senior Lecturer in both American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. My research interests explore histories of resistance to bondage, migration, and freedom throughout the Black Atlantic. My...
New Book Edited by CFT Assistant Director, Stacey Johnson
May. 3, 2023—Check out this recently published book edited by the CFT’s own Assistant Director Stacey Johnson. Entitled How We Take Action: Social Justice in PK-16 Language Classrooms and published by Information Age Publishing just this month, this volume brings together practical examples of social justice in language education from a wide range of contexts. Even language...
JFTF Spotlight on Divya Chaudhry
Apr. 18, 2023—Throughout the year, the CFT highlights the work of their Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Divya Chaudhry shares about her work as a Fellow. I am a senior lecturer in Hindi-Urdu at Vanderbilt University, passionate about teaching Hindi and Urdu languages, as well as South Asian culture. My instructional decision making can be best...
JFTF Spotlight on Lynn Punnoose
Apr. 3, 2023—Throughout the year, the CFT highlights the work of their Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Lynn Punnoose shares about her work as a Fellow. I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt and a cardiologist specializing in advanced heart failure. I am passionate about education both for our faculty and trainees, and...
JFTF Spotlight on Courtney Johnson
Feb. 28, 2023—Throughout the year, the CFT highlights the work of their Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Courtney Johnson shares about her work as a Fellow. I consider myself a lifelong learner, so I am always looking for ways to refine my teaching methods, and the JFTF program has allowed me to do that. I have...
JFTF Spotlight on Simone Stirmer
Feb. 27, 2023—Throughout the year, the CFT highlights the work of their Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows. This month, Simone Stirner shares about her work as a Fellow. The JFTF has been a great opportunity to reflect on teaching in collaboration with CfT faculty and other junior colleagues on campus and learn from each other in a supportive...
Teaching, Difference, and Power Learning Community: Anti-Racist Teaching
Feb. 17, 2023—This spring, the CFT continues co-hosting a learning community with Meredyth Wegener (Neuroscience) on anti-racist teaching with the goal of better understanding how higher education systems, teaching and learning practices, and our disciplines can resolve rather than reproduce racial marginalization and exclusion. Discussion will largely focus on the challenges and opportunities white anti-racist educators confront,...
Come work with the CFT!
Feb. 16, 2023—Each year the Center for Teaching (CFT) hires a number of graduate students and postdocs as part of its efforts to mentor and train graduate instructors across campus, including those serving as teaching assistants or instructors of record here at Vanderbilt as well as those interested in developing teaching skills for future faculty careers. The...