The Q & A with Campus Partners series is designed to connect faculty with personnel and offices on campus in order to better serve Belmont’s students. This installment features Mary Claire Dismukes from the Office of Career & Professional Development. What is your title and how long have you been at Belmont? I am the …
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Resource of the Month
January’s resource, “I Hate Group Work!”: Addressing Students’ Concerns About Small-Group Learning, is found in InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching. According to its website, the journal, published by the Faculty Center for Innovation at Park University, “emphasizes the enhancement of post-secondary education through the professional exchange of scholarly approaches and perspectives applicable to the …
First Year Faculty Thoughts
Sue Iliff, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Occupational Therapy B.S., Occupational Therapy, University of Kansas M.A., Occupational Therapy, Texas Woman’s University Ph.D., Occupational Therapy, Texas Woman’s University Accepting a faculty position at Belmont University was a serendipitous moment in my life. Everything seemed to fall into place in a very short period of time. I …
Recently at the Teaching Center…
Reacting to the Past at Belmont: Pedagogy and Play By James Al-Shamma On January 3, 2018, the Teaching Center hosted a workshop titled, “Reacting to the Past at Belmont: Pedagogy and Play.” Reacting to the Past (Reacting) is a role-playing pedagogy that places students at specific moments in history and asks them to debate the …
Spring Events and Deadlines
Welcome back and happy 2018! So you can plan accordingly, you will find a list of upcoming Teaching Center events and opportunities below. As always, you will receive emails about individual events and deadlines. Lunch Discussions Friday, January 26 The Elephant in the Classroom: Addressing Sensitive Topics with Skill and Courage 12:00 – 1:30pm Massey …
Resource of the Month
This month’s resource, Using a Teaching Philosophy Statement as a Professional Development Tool for Teaching Candidates, is found in the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. According to its website, the journal, published by the Centers for Teaching & Technology at Georgia Southern University, “is an international forum for research and information …
First Year Faculty Thoughts
Amy Bryson Smith, J.D. Assistant Professor of Music Business B.B.A., Business Management, Belmont College B.S., Education, Belmont University J.D., Nashville School of Law It seems just like last week that I was running around the campus of Belmont College as a full-time student. Yes, we were a college until 1991. So much has changed since …
Faculty Reflections
Memories of the Lilly Teaching Conference Shape My Career Development By Pete Giordano Professor, Psychological Science I never thought I would be a college professor. Early on, I was not even sure I would get my bachelor’s degree. Neither of my parents have a college degree, and one of my older brothers had flunked out …
First Year Faculty Thoughts
Matthew Heard, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biology B.A., College Scholars (Emphasis in Ecology & French), University of Tennessee Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University Part of the reason that I decided to become a teacher was that every day is different. Despite teaching the same classes over and over again and covering the same …
Resource of the Month
The resource for November, Keeping Students “on Their Toes and on Their Game”: Serendipitous Findings in Students’ Assessments and Reactions, is found in the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. The article, written by Kathy L. Pelletier, examines the effects of two-minute papers and mini-quizzes on exam scores and student attendance. According to its website, …