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 …
Category: Faculty
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, …
First Year Faculty Thoughts
Ken Corbit, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Public Relations B.A., Communication Studies, Arkansas State University M.A., Communication Studies, Arkansas State University Ph.D., Strategic Communication, University of Alabama Integration into a new institution has the potential to be a comic adventure of signature mishaps. Yet, my assimilation into the Belmont community has been nearly seamless. Throughout …
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 …
Recently at the Teaching Center…
Author Talk with Dr. Kelly Garner On Monday, October 30, 2017, Dr. Kelly Garner sat down with Dr. Beverly Schneller to discuss So You Want to Sing Country: A Guide for Performers, which is part of series of books published for the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) by Rowman and Littlefield. Garner discussed …
Resource of the Month
This month’s resource, Flipped Learning, Flipped Satisfaction, Getting the Balance Right, is found in Teaching and Learning Inquiry (TLI). The article, written by Rosemary Fisher, Bella Ross, Richard LaFerriere, and Alex Maritz, investigates student perceptions of learning outcomes, engagement, and satisfaction in a course utilizing a technology-facilitated flipped approach. TLI is the flagship journal of …
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 …