Faculty Summer Immersion - Best Practices in Teaching and Learning Pedagogy
Faculty Summer Immersion: Best Practices in Teaching and Learning Pedagogy
Program Dates: July 8 – July 12, 2019
Location: TBA
Program Leader: Angie McNelis
Overview
The one-week immersive faculty enrichment program will provide nurse educators a rich experience in which they will learn more about evidence-based practices in teaching and learning in didactic, online and clinical environments. The focus will be on best practices in teaching with exemplars presented by expert educators and facilitated opportunities for participants to apply evidence-based teaching practices in constructing significant and meaningful learning environments for students across all levels of education.
The week includes introduction and integration of Quality Matters guidelines in constructing online courses, including syllabi construction and alignment of course objectives with learning activities. Finally, methods for evaluating your own teaching practices for quality improvement as well as potential dissemination in journals and at conferences will be presented.
Educators will be immersed in group work creating real-time applications, implementing them with peers, and evaluating the outcomes of the creative work. Overall the faculty development enrichment program is a unique opportunity to enhance knowledge and skills in teaching and learning pedagogy, develop tangible teaching strategies, activities or interventions that will result in high-quality education for nursing and other health professional students.
Audience
Newly graduated doctoral faculty and new faculty who have not taught before.
Objectives
- Understand and apply evidence-based teaching practices in the classroom, online or clinical learning environments
- Create new teaching innovations or apply evidence-based strategies to promote student engagement in the classroom, online or clinical setting
- Create a course syllabus that aligns with the national standard called Quality Matters
- Demonstrate different assessment methodologies to measure teaching strategies and student learning in the classroom, online or clinical milieus