Mike Pinter, Director of the Belmont Teaching Center, in partnership with the Provost’s Office, co-facilitated three Belmont Faculty Forums on January 30, February 13, and March 6, and presented at the March 6 forum. These forums presented faculty with student perceptions of the overall learning environments Belmont University offers, communicated information from student focus groups …
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Taylor Branch Presents at Teaching Center Event
On Friday, January 30, in the Massey Boardroom, the Teaching Center partnered with Belmont University’s Martin Luther King Committee to sponsor a lunch discussion entitled “For Students of Freedom: Taylor Branch on Teaching, Storytelling, and the Civil Rights Movement.” The guest presenter, Taylor Branch, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of, among other works, one of the …
Center Co-Hosts Discussion On Students with Disabilities
On January 14, at the Curb Event Center, the Belmont Teaching Center, along with the Office of Student Affairs, hosted a faculty lunch discussion entitled, ” Addressing the Learning Needs of Students with Disabilities.” The event addressed questions such as: How can we best serve the learning needs of our students with disabilities? Are there …
Belmont Faculty Present at Lilly Conference on College Teaching
Fifteen faculty members from across Belmont University, associated with the Teaching Center and the Office of General Education, recently contributed six presentations at the 34rd Annual International Lilly Conference on College Teaching. The theme for the 2014 conference, held November 19-22 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, was “Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning.” At the Lilly Conference, faculty scholars of teaching …