All events are open to Vanderbilt University faculty, staff, and students.
AdvancED Events
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September 2025-April 2026
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Baker 805
New Faculty Teaching Academy
The New Faculty Teaching Academy (NFTA) is a cross-disciplinary, cohort-based learning community designed to elevate resource sharing and build rich relationships around teaching for faculty in their early years at Vanderbilt. New faculty share experiences and explore resources around educational development in an encouraging, collegial atmosphere.
This program requires participants to submit applications. Deadline: August 29, 2025.
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September - November
Various Baker 805
Academy of College Teaching
This 10-week program will integrate both theory and practical applications. This program aims to prepare participants for future careers in higher education teaching and is intended for Vanderbilt graduate students and postdocs whose goals are to become more effective educators and who wish to gain a clearer, deeper, more active approach to teaching and learning in higher education.
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Various
12:15PM – 1:15PM Baker 805
Charting the Course – Empowering Students as Critical AI Navigators
This series creates a collaborative, cross-disciplinary space where faculty can explore effective strategies for preparing students to become thoughtful, ethical, and skilled users of generative AI. Participants will meet weekly or biweekly and brainstorm strategies for helping students navigate AI tools while maintaining the core values of academic integrity and information literacy. Through hands-on workshops, shared experiences, and guided discussion, participants will develop approaches to integrate AI meaningfully into student learning experiences across diverse disciplines.
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Various
12:15PM – 1:15PM Baker 805
Inquiry-Based Learning in STEM Disciplines
The Inquiry-Based Learning in STEM Faculty Learning Community (IBL-FLC) is a 5-10-week professional development opportunity designed to help STEM faculty transform their teaching through inquiry-based approaches. Participants will meet weekly or biweekly to engage in a supportive community environment to understand, experience, and implement evidence-based IBL strategies that enhance student learning, engagement, and critical thinking skills.
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Various
12:15PM – 1:15PM Baker 805
Humanities Pedagogy
Humanities instructors face many particular challenges, from motivating students to read and write to facing down existential threats to their profession. In this learning community, we’ll take a deep dive into the things that make a humanities classroom unique. We’llexamine a variety of recommended pedagogical practices and explore the ways in which these practices apply (or don’t!) in a humanities classroom.
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September 9
12:15 PM-1:45 PM Baker 805
Navigating Difficult Conversations in the Classroom: Strategies for Courageous Discussions
This workshop equips faculty with frameworks to foster open, respectful, and educationally productive discussions. Using real scenarios, participants will explore strategies for navigating difficult conversations and facilitating civil discourse and the open exchange of differing viewpoints and ideas. Participants will leave with actionable strategies to foster an inclusive classroom environment and effectively manage challenging conversations.
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September 8th-18th
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Open Classroom Series
Teaching in Action is a two-week AdvancED spotlight series that offers faculty and graduate students the chance to observe live teaching and participate in post-class conversations about pedagogy. From September 15 to 19, 2025, many faculty will open their classrooms to registered visitors, followed by a 30-minute dialogue facilitated by AdvancED staff. This small-scale, high-impact program aims to highlight four key teaching challenges and foster meaningful, cross-disciplinary exchange. Possible themes include Active Learning, Teaching Controversy, Teaching with GenAI, or Teaching in the Core.
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September 23
12:15 PM-1:45 PM Baker 805
Active Learning 2.0: Beyond the Basics for Deeper Student Engagement
This advanced session explores active learning strategies that promote higher-order thinking and authentic student engagement. Participants will apply advanced active learning structures to foster critical thinking, redesign a lecture or activity using an active learning framework and assess how these approaches enhance student participation and outcomes. Faculty will leave with actionable strategies to redesign learning experiences for deeper impact.
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September - November
Various Baker 805
Academy of College Teaching
This 10-week program will integrate both theory and practical applications. This program aims to prepare participants for future careers in higher education teaching and is intended for Vanderbilt graduate students and postdocs whose goals are to become more effective educators and who wish to gain a clearer, deeper, more active approach to teaching and learning in higher education.
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October 22
12:15 PM-1:15 PM Baker 805
Leveraging AI as a Learning Partner: Tutoring, Brainstorming, and Critical Thinking Activities
Explore how faculty can harness generative AI models to support tutoring, feedback, and collaborative student learning. Attendees will identify high-impact opportunities for AI integration, design an activity to foster critical thinking and evaluate best practices for using AI ethically and effectively in the classroom. Faculty will leave equipped with practical strategies to integrate AI as a tool for enhanced student learning and engagement.
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Fall 2025
Varies
Instructional Technology Support Workshops
New workshops coming soon.