Teaching Strategies and Skills

Issued by Upstate Medical University

Faculty will participate in a series of workshops designed to assist in the development and implementation of unbiased content, active learning strategies, question writing, and other teaching strategies to apply to their current teaching presentations. Includes 7 workshops, each 1 to 1.5 hours, with opportunities to analyze, reflect, and update individual presentations. Each participant will be expected to update course materials and introduce active learning in their course(s).

Type Learning
Time Weeks
Cost Free

Skills

Earning Criteria

LEARNING OUTCOME: Review the evidence regarding the science of learning and the effectiveness of active learning approaches. ASSESSMENT: Participation.
LEARNING OUTCOME: Identify opportunities in teaching for supplementing and/or replacing strategies with active learning techniques, including question implementation, reflection, TBL and other methods. ASSESSMENT: Change and update current courses with active learning strategies.
LEARNING OUTCOME: Use the bias checklist in presentations. ASSESSMENT: Review of submitted draft teaching session.
LEARNING OUTCOME: Identify key components of effective written questions. ASSESSMENT: Submit one written student assessment question for feedback.
LEARNING OUTCOME: Design learning objectives. ASSESSMENT: Submit draft teaching session with learning objectives.
LEARNING OUTCOME: Update or generate new presentations utilizing active learning strategies. ASSESSMENT: As above and submit for feedback a revised presentation/outline of teaching session with identified teaching strategies.