Three miles an hour – it’s roughly the speed humans walk. Mind you, I haven’t timed it. I probably move a bit faster when walking from my 8 a.m. class in the sport science building to my 9 a.m. class in JAAC. If I’m being honest, I dash more than I walk – dash to …
Category: Faculty Reflections
Faculty Reflections
Our Experience Conducting and Publishing Teaching and Learning Research By Robin Lovgren (Mathematics) and Kara Smith (Economics) Our goal in writing this blog is to encourage other faculty members to think about ways you can conduct SoTL research and reap the rewards! We have been teaching an Interdisciplinary Learning Community (ILC, or “linked”) class with …
Faculty Reflections
Using Images to Mediate Critical Thinking and Dialogue Jeremy Fyke, Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies “What do you see?” “What comes to mind here?” As instructors, these are two simple, yet powerful, prompts we can use to generate discussion. Yet, as we all know, what we think are sure-fire good prompts don’t always work …
Faculty Reflections
A New Kind of Journey By Hope Buckner I sat in those seats – in fact, I was a student at Belmont when the very building I’m teaching in was the newest one on campus. I remember walking the halls as a tour guide my sophomore year and the classrooms I sat in as a …
Faculty Reflections
Becoming a BANJO Writer By Anthony Blash (Pharmacy) and Beverly Schneller (English) In the summer of 2017, Anthony Blash invited a small group of colleagues from across campus to collaborate on an article on the mid-semester peer review of teaching that the Teaching Center coordinates each semester. He had a positive experience with his faculty …
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 …
Faculty Reflections
Teaching as Learning, Learning Through Teaching By Virginia Christy Lamothe Lecturer, School of Music At this past August’s annual Teaching Center workshop, Belmont faculty were treated to an opportunity to work with Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire, author of Teach Students How to Learn (2015) and Director Emerita of the Center for Academic Success at Louisiana …
Faculty Reflections
Remembering the Joy of Learning in Oaxaca By Beth Ritter-Conn Lecturer, College of Theology and Christian Ministry When was the last time you decided to try to learn something just for the joy of learning it—not because you needed to know it for a research project, or because you needed to brush up on an …