This seminar will present information about:
• efforts to make OED and the Educators Academy the ‘go-to’ place for faculty seeking help with their teaching and learning needs;
• the Teaching Scholars program, a contributor to faculty development in the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL);
• a fall-semester series of teaching workshops designed to enhance pedagogical skills and teaching outcomes;
• the Academy’s annual education grant, an opportunity for UAMS teaching faculty to engage in the SoTL;
• one-on-one consulting on teaching;
• efforts to build a cadre of faculty who contribute to the viability of our teaching feedback program;
• administration of the Chancellor’s Teaching Award process.
1. What Can the Educators
Academy Do for You?
Laura Smith-Olinde,Ph.D.
ChickilahDavenport, B.A.
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Good afternoon and welcome. I’d like to introduce the Ed Acad’s Admin Asst, Ms. Chickilah Davenport and I am LS-O, director of the Ed Acad. We are going to explain how the Academy can help you in the ‘education’ portion of your work.
EA has two major areas of emphasis; to help faculty:
--by relaying new teaching methodologies, skills
--engage in SoTL
Choose one or two people in the audience and ask, “What does “scholarship of teaching and learning mean to you?”
Green: Teachers in all settings have these questions, so whether you’re in a traditional classroom, clinic, lab, online, you can engage in this process.
Pink: Most of us ask these questions (Did X work? What went wrong? How can I improve that experience?) and rework from one cohort or semester to the next.
--this reworking is one aspect of “scholarly teaching”
--we may not have thought about using the “research” model to do this, but with just a little thought at the start, most of our teaching work is ripe to use as research
Blue: Taking this to the next level, we disseminate our findings, just as we would in our content disciplines
Narrative: So can you take what you currently have from your teaching and turn it into scholarship?
Absolutely!
Educators Academy provides 3 avenues for SoTL: Programs, Services, and Membership. We’ll tell you about each of those
--The programs offered by Educators Academy provide practical information and help for your teaching and for your scholarship.
--Many of our programs are facilitated by UAMS colleagues, who have “been there and done that” and want to help fellow faculty members succeed.
--Chickilah is going to describe a couple of our programs for you; Chickilah
--EA offers a small, $2500 1-year grant for educational innovation.
--To be eligible to apply for this grant, you must be a member of the Academy.
--First was offered fall 2015; 3 submissions and 4 authors; this spring 2016, 9 submissions with 26 authors!
--The call for papers is in the spring with the award conveyed July 1.
Question for audience: how many of you have participated in this program? --If someone raises a hand, ask about their project and experience…how did they benefit?
--Teaching Scholars offers its participants the opportunity to learn about various teaching techniques and how to evaluate them.
--Important aspect is individual mentoring on an educational scholarship project
--end result is a scholarly item to be shared
--20 years, almost 200 scholars and over 1000 papers and presentations that those scholars participated in over that time
2015 saw the first Teaching and Learning Symposium. For 2016 we teamed up with the COM Teach the Teacher conference TtT Symposium. It is a 1-day event in late January. There is an education theme (SoTL; student learning communities) with an expert external speaker & UAMS faculty speakers. We also showcase the peer-reviewed educational scholarship of UAMS faculty and this meeting provides a way for faculty to network and share their educational scholarship and research projects.
Question for audience: How many of you attend the Symposium? What worked for you? What didn’t work for you?
Our newest program began this past Nov. as the “members’ meeting”. The group decided to have presentations on a variety of topics and no one wanted to limit these to members.
--Right now this series is held on the 2nd Wednesday of the month from 4 – 5 pm. I know that time doesn’t suit everyone!
--We are offering the presentation as a live webinar via Blackboard Collaborate and we are recording each one through Collaborate as well.
--You can find links to these on the EA website.
Questions about our programs?
In addition to our programs, EdAcad offers services tailored to faculty needs.
--One of the goals of the EA is to “celebrate faculty”.
--We held the first “faculty thank you” in May 2015.
--We’ve decided to move the event to September in order for newly-arrived faculty to meet and network with folks who’ve been here a while and to become engaged in the Ed Acad.
Questions about our Services?
Educators Academy provides 3 avenues for SoTL: Programs, Services, and Membership.
Purpose of membership: Structured so that members learn about scholarly teaching and progress to education scholarship. Also, this membership structure provides a pathway to P&T.
Let’s take a closer look at the membership levels. BTW, there is no cost to join the Academy.
Protégé: post-docs, fellows, residents, students
Associate: “be interested in education”; can apply for grant; if you write a teaching philosophy statement, create an educator portfolio,
Questions about membership?
--Presented first round of data at 2015 Symposium
--Presented updated data (2nd year collecting) at 2016 Symposium
--Published this spring and is on the cover! Kudos to our surgery colleagues
--Presented at a national pharmacy conference in October and here in January
--Writing a paper now, looking at summer submission
--They are submitting for publication now
--Presented a poster at the UAMS Nursing Research Conference on April 22nd
--Poster accepted for the International Association of Medical Science Educators International conference in Leiden, Netherlands in June
Future Plans
Future Plans
Future Plans
FLC: 4-8 faculty choose a topic, book and meet on a regular basis to discuss, work through over a semester or year
WRAP UP: We have developed several programs designed to help you with your teaching and educational scholarship. We are dedicated to helping you succeed, so if you need assistance with anything “teaching and learning”, please be in touch with us.
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