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Workshops

Formerly The Center for Teaching and Learning,
AdvancED is Hosting a Variety of Early Fall Workshops

Just-In-Time Workshops

August 18-19  
Discover new strategies and innovative techniques to gain a deeper understanding of effective teaching methods and drive excellence and student engagement in the classroom. Register today for the following one-hour workshops:

Teaching at Vanderbilt

August 14 | 2:30-5:00pm

Teaching at Vanderbilt (TAV) is AdvancED’s annual orientation for all new full-time and part-time faculty. The orientation is an opportunity for new faculty to meet each other and to learn how our team can support them throughout their Vanderbilt careers. Register today!

Teaching Assistant Faculty Orientation

August 15 | 10:00-11:00am or 2:00-3:00pm   
The success of your TAs is essential to the success of your course! Participants will learn effective communication techniques, administrative best practices and ways to create supportive relationships that empower TAs. Register today!

Leveraging AI as a Learning Partner: Tutoring, Brainstorming, and Critical Thinking Activities  

October 22 | 12:15-1:15pm  
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. Register today! 

AdvancED: Fall 2025 Learning Communities

Navigating Difficult Conversations in the Classroom: Strategies for Courageous Discussions 

September 9 | 12:15-1:45pm  
This workshop equips faculty with frameworks to foster open, respectful and educationally productive discussions. Participants will leave with actionable strategies to foster an open and inclusive classroom environment and effectively manage challenging conversations. Register today!

Active Learning 2.0 

September 23 | 12:15-1:15pm  
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. Register today!

Charting the Course – Empowering Students as Critical AI Navigators 

September 10-October 22 | Bi-weekly Wednesdays | 12:15-1:15pm  
Explore effective strategies for preparing students to become thoughtful, ethical and skilled users of generative AI. Register today!

Teaching Aids

Language Panda

Vanderbilt Center for Languages is the home for Language Panda, a crowd-sourced, searchable database for teaching foreign languages with digital resources. Language Panda began in 2015 when graduate students at the center set out to address an emerging issue in the field of foreign language teaching: As communication has taken an increasingly digital form, there is a growing need for lessons that practice technology-based interactions.

In the spirit of digital humanities and public scholarship, Language Panda provides a forum for sharing how digital pedagogy is being practiced across a variety of campuses and institutions. The webpage currently features projects in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Chinese, and we invite contributions from experienced and novice instructors, K-12 teachers, and higher education professors.

Graduate affiliates at the center moderate and maintain the site, which allows our graduate students to develop WordPress skills, learn about new tools, and share lesson plans that practice key vocabulary and grammar, facilitate cultural competence, and provide digital evidence of student learning.

To browse the project database or to submit your own materials, please visit Language Panda.

The projects on Language Panda are designed according to ACTFL standards. If you are interested in submitting an activity to Language Panda, please use this lesson plan template to help create your project, articulate your learning objectives, and describe your lesson outcomes.