Teaching, Learning and Scholarship Faculty Development
Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (TLAS) provides faculty development on effective teaching and educational scholarship.
Dr. Richard Van Eck leading an in-person faculty development training.
TLAS offers its faculty development in conjunction with the Office of Education and Faculty Affairs, which coordinates schoolwide faculty development.
Faculty Development sessions are available once a month on Wednesdays at 12:00-1:00 PM CST from September through May via Zoom. These workshops and interactive lectures are designed for anyone interested in enhancing their teaching, learning, or scholarship strategies. Led by SMHS educators who are at the forefront of adopting, studying, or creating innovative and effective educational practices, these sessions foster faculty-to-faculty sharing of teaching tips, challenges, and strategies.
Additionally, we offer periodic book studies, guest speakers, the TLAS Academy for Educator Scholars, and other interactive live or virtual workshops and lectures on topics related to educational best practices. Faculty and staff can also earn badges for participating in varying levels of intensive faculty development programs.
For more information regarding TLAS Faculty Development, please check this webpage, your email, X (#SMHSFacDev), and For Your Health are used to disseminate details of upcoming faculty development offerings as they approach.
Please browse our past recordings by topic below and reach out to Adrienne Salentiny if you have questions. If you would like to schedule a departmental workshop, please reach out! Individual consultations with an instructional designer are also available.
Faculty Development Workshops and Sessions
| Dates: | Presenter: | Topic: |
|---|---|---|
| Wed., January 8, 2025 | Dr. Victoria Haynes | Culture and Diversity 101 |
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Wed. February 12, 2025 |
TLAS | Using AI to Foster Student Discussions |
| Wed. March 12, 2025 | TLAS | Using AI for Research Skills and Scholarship |
| Wed. April 9, 2025 | TBD | Strategies for Lab Teaching Panel |
| Wed. May 14, 2025 | Dr. Richard Van Eck | Gamification in Health Education |
The faculty development schedule is built based on feedback from our biennial needs assessment. This assessment was last administered in Summer 2023.
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Past Faculty Development Session Recordings
Organized by topic, browse recordings of past events and locate relevant materials.
Evidence-based Clinical Teaching Techniques to Use When Time is Limited
Presenters: John E. Lowry, PhD, Central Michigan University
Mohammed Najjar, MD, The Ohio State University
Feedback Fundamentals: Observing, Providing Feedback, Being Unbiased
Presenter: J.M. Monica van de Ridder, PhD,
Michigan State University
Faculty Development Program Development and Evaluation: A Practical Guide
Presenters: Boyung Suh, PhD, Southern Illinois University
Adrienne Salentiny, PhD, UND
Increase Student Success with Active Learning Strategies
Presenter: Adrienne Salentiny, PhD, UND
Authentic Doctor-Patient Communication Skills
Presenter: Heeyoung Han, PhD, Southern Illinois University
Mentoring and Coaching for Faculty
Presenters: Judy S. Blebea, MD and John E. Lowry, PhD;
Central Michigan University
The Low-Hanging Fruit in Educational Research
Presenter: Mary Haas, MD
University of Michigan
Faculty Career Success and Promotion
May 11, 2023
Recording
Presenters:
Judy S. Blebea, MD
Central Michigan University
J. M. Monica van de Ridder, PhD
Michigan State University
Change Management
June 13, 2023
Recording
Presenters:
J.M. Monica van de Ridder, PhD
Michigan State University
Heeyoung Han, PhD, Southern Illinois University
Active Learning and Teaching Methods in Medical Education
Presenter: Dr. Adrienne Salentiny
Active Learning Updated: New Approaches for a New Era of Teaching
Presenter: Dr. Richard Van Eck
Active Learning with TopHat
Presenter: Dr. Amanda Haage
Dr. Amanda Haage from biomedical sciences demonstrates the use of TopHat as a technology for the classroom. TopHat is an all-in-one active learning platform for organizing courses both in-person and online for active learning. It is currently being used by several biomedical sciences colleagues in undergraduate classes and in collaboration with clinicians for integrating basic science in the clinical years for our medical students. This workshop focuses on the range of possibilities with Tophat, from the simplicity of adding live class polling and questioning into lectures, up to fully flipped classroom experiences.
Increase Engagement and Student Learning by Activating Your Lectures
Presenter: Dr. Adrienne Salentiny
Evidence for the benefits of AL continues to grow and it has become clear that any amount of AL can produce measurable positive results in learner success! Our past and recent workshops have discussed the research and explored the many active learning strategies and how many SMHS faculty have made positive changes to their curricula. At this session, join Dr. Adrienne Salentiny to learn how you too can add active learning to your lectures using low- and no-tech strategies and tools to deliver on AL’s promise within the setting of lecture-based courses.
Active Lectures for Online Teaching
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenter: Dr. Van Eck
Learn how the five levels of AL, from simple to complex, can be effectively implemented in lecture classes. Explore how these strategies translate to online classes on Zoom through the use of polling, participant icons, breakout rooms, and chat features. Consider how to approach other types of instruction, such as precepting and discussions, in an online environment.
From Lecture to Learning: Personal Experience in Transforming an Online Graduate-Level Pharmacology Course to Active, Cased-Based Learning
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenter: D. Sieg (PA Studies)
Experience with transforming an online graduate-level basic sciences pharmacology course from a traditional format to a primarily active learning format. The process of developing, implementing, and managing small group activities and case-based learning strategies will be discussed.
Active Learning Applied: Simple Strategies for Complex Content
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenters: Dr. Van Eck; Dr. Salentiny; D. Olson (Library Resources)
For many, AL is synonymous with flipping the classroom. While a flipped classroom can be effective, there are dozens of much simpler AL strategies for solving individual teaching problems. In this interactive session we’ll show you techniques that anyone can use without overhauling the entire course. Handout: Active Learning Strategies
Active Learning for Lectures: Choosing the Right Level
(Advancing Educational Innovation and Scholarship)
Presenter: Richard Van Eck, PhD
Lectures can not only survive, but thrive, with the addition of Active Learning (AL). Select different AL strategies for different outcomes and learn how the five levels of AL, from simple to complex, can be effectively implemented in lecture classes. Related: ER Corner: What is Active Lecturing?
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
Recording:
Presenter:
Richard Van Eck, PhD - Monson Endowed Chair for Medical Education & Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning
This one hour faculty session was developed by Dr. Van Eck and provides an informative view of the current usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the Medical Community.
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the SMHS
Recording:
Presenters:
Andrea Guthridge, MEd, MAT- Instructional Designer
Erika M. Johnson, MLIS- Head of Library Resources
Devon Olson, MLIS- Research and Education Librarian
This session provides information current usage and research on Artificial Intelligence within Medicine and Health Sciences, create a common language at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and a provision of current policies resources available to faculty, students, and staff at SMHS.
Picture Yourself in The SMHS Recording Studio: Experiences and Examples.
Panel: Dr. Haage, Brian Schill, Dr. Jurivich, and Dr. Manocha. Facilitated by: Andrea Guthridge, MEd, MAT.
This session provides information about the SMHS Recording Studio located in E152 in the Simulation Center Hallway that is available for faculty and staff to create meaningful and high quality content. Learn more about 3 different projects that have been created in the SMHS Recording Studio: Lecture Recordings with Dr. Amanda Haage, the Dakota Health Podcast by Brian Schill, and a Geripop Geriatrics Game that is being created by Dr. Donald Jurivich and Dr. Gunjan Manocha.
SMHS Recording Studio Information Session
Presenter: Richard Van Eck, PhD
This session provides information on the SMHS recording studio, a room to be used for creating media for use in online/asynchronous instruction. In addition to recording high-quality lecture recordings, faculty will also be able to create a variety of media for use in education, including video demonstration of skills and procedures.
Teaching Asynchronously: Tips and Tricks for Effective, Engaging Recorded Lectures
Presenter: Adrienne Salentiny, PhD
Most of us have had a crash course in online teaching and Zoom, Mediasite, or Yuja recordings due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but recording material for an audience of individual learners can be a very different experience. In this session, Dr. Salentiny shares share simple tips, tricks, strategies, and tools for creating polished lecture recordings that engage students in support of successful independent learning.
Building Online Interactive Simulations and Tutorials with SimTutor
February 11, 2021: Part 1 Recording
March 11, 2021: Part 2 Recording
Presenters: Dr. Richard Van Eck, A. Lundstrom, Courtney Maguire; Ryan Knapp & Benny Jekel (SimTutor)
The SMHS has purchased a limited number of licenses for SimTutor, a tool for quickly building online tutorials and simulations. With SimTutor, you can easily take images, video, and audio and integrate them with text, questions, and interactive objects (buttons, menus, questions) and share them with your learners online.
The first workshop discusses and demonstrates the different kinds of learning modules you can build with SimTutor, including:
- Interactive simulations (e.g., team-based interprofessional simulations in clinical settings).
- “Choose Your Own Adventure” (e.g., turn-based interactions where you ask a patient questions and get responses, or take actions and see the results).
- Tutorials (e.g., setting up a lab bench for research, orientation to a new environment).
The second workshop showcases how to use SimTutor Author to begin building your first learning module.
Teaching Well in the Time of COVID
Presenters: Richard Van Eck, PhD and Adrienne Salentiny, PhD
Join Dr. Richard Van Eck and Dr. Adrienne Salentiny as they share the lessons learned from their 20+ combined years of online teaching experience:
- When should you meet with your students in real time?
- How can you make online learning more engaging?
- How do you overcome technology barriers and take advantage of its strengths?
Note: the session went over time and as a result, the recording stops prior to the end of the session. Complete presentation slides.
Put Some Vroom in Your Zoom
Presenters: Richard Van Eck, PhD and Adrienne Salentiny, PhD
This session focuses on the functionality, features, and challenges of using Zoom
to effectively teach and meet. Audience Q&A will be prioritized.
Asynchronous Instructional Methods: When, How, and Why to Use Them
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenter: Adrienne Salentiny, PhD
Explore the benefits and challenges to adding asynchronous strategies to your teaching
and learning toolkit. Asynchronous methods are not only for online classes: they include
all directed learning activities that take place outside of class. Please watch this 5-minute video before the event.
A Threaded Discussion Strategy to Build Student Expertise
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenter: Richard Van Eck, PhD
This session describes an effective threaded discussion strategy appropriate for online
or face-to-face courses. This strategy was validated through a discourse analysis
of student contributions over a 5-week graduate course. It was found to lead to content
and group leadership expertise for all students and illustrates how community is actually
a necessary prerequisite for expertise.
Book studies are ongoing throughout the year with a rotating list of titles to help drive effective teaching and innovation in health care education. Studies are led by Dr. Adrienne Salentiny and Dr. Richard Van Eck. Drawing from their combined 40 years’ experience in instructional design, faculty development, teaching, and training, they guide discussions to help translate the book’s insights to practical applications in medical and health care education.
FREE books are available for some studies, but supply is limited. We ask that recipients
of the books commit to attending all three meeting times; everyone’s contributions
will be valuable to the discussion! If you already own a personal copy of the book
and would like to join our discussions, please do!
Anyone who has read or is reading the current book is welcome to join us. Reach out for meeting times.
- What the Best College Teachers Do (Bain) - Spring 2021
Leader: Dr. Van Eck - The Productive Online and Offline Professor (Stachowiak) - Fall 2020
Leader: Dr. Salentiny - Telling Ain't Training (Stolovitch and Keeps) - Spring 2020
Leader: Dr. Van Eck; Reading Guide - Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Brown, Roediger, & McDaniel) - Fall 2019
Leader: Dr. Salentiny; Reading Guide
Competency in Context: Building Confidence, Resilience, and Satisfaction
(Evidence-Based Teaching Session)
Presenters: Dr. Dave Schmitz and Michelle Montgomery
A review the literature and best practices related to development of competence for practice and discussion of how this is related to provider satisfaction and well-being.
Promoting Competencies in Health Care Education (Evidence-Based Teaching - 2 Sessions)
Jan. 28, 2020: Part 1 Recording
Feb. 25, 2020: Part 2 Recording
Presenters: Dr. Van Eck & Dr. Salentiny
How do we go about teaching and promoting “essential” cognitive, emotional, and attitudinal dispositions like professionalism, professional identity, empathy, and resilience? Can we really know whether a student is “professional” based on what she says and does in class? How do new teaching and assessment strategies like gamification and badging relate to these new kinds of learning outcomes?
Worksheet: Build-A-Badge
Diagnose the Diagnosis: Automating the Assessment of Student Diagnostic Reasoning
(Guest Speaker)
Presenter: Dr. Waechter (Calgary, AB; Teaching Medicine)
First, see Teaching Medicine from the student perspective. Then, using the Teaching Medicine interface, learn how to input your own (or a sample) diagnostic reasoning case for your own curriculum and to collect and analyze the “big data” that results for the use of this tool to assess individual student diagnostic reasoning.
What Can Game-Based Learning Teach Us About Medical Education?
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenter: Dr. Van Eck
We must teach our future physicians to be able to solve a wide range of problems; to see failure as an opportunity and, as a result, become resilient “gritty” practitioners. This talk will argue that videogames and the principles they employ will help us meet these challenges.
Diagnose the Diagnosis
(Guest Speaker)
Presenter: Dr. Waechter (Calgary, AB; Teaching Medicine)
Learn about Teaching Medicine, a robust online case-based learning tool that allows us to to analyze the diagnostic decisions made by medical students as they work through a case.
Competency-Based Assessment: Using Behavioral Observation Forms to Measure the Development of Study Competency Over Time
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenter: Dr. Van Eck
This session will provide an overview of the development, piloting, and results of an observational form created for use during the medical curriculum's Patient-Centered Learning (PCL) events to measure the competency-based program goals, including some focused on lifelong self-directed learning skills, professionalism, and personal and professional development.
Facilitating Student Mental Model Development Through
Systems Modeling
Presenter: Dr. Michelle Murphy
What are mental models? What is systems modeling? How does systems modeling help students and instructors identify and address misconceptions and gaps in physiology core concepts knowledge? We explored the research supporting the answers to these questions, and practiced systems modeling in this session/
Foundational Curriculum Concepts (Evidence-Based Teaching - 2 Sessions)
Choosing the Right Learning Outcomes (Sept. 24, 2019)
Generating Measurable Performance Objectives (Oct. 25, 2019)
Presenter: Dr. Van Eck & Dr. Salentiny
In the first session, you will learn how (and why!) to classify learning outcomes as intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, attitudes, verbal information, and motor skills and how doing so ensures effective learning for your students before you even begin thinking about textbooks or active learning! In the second session, you’ll learn how to avoid the most common and critical errors in curriculum, including double-barreling, hidden objectives, vague objectives that can be interpreted differently, and objectives that can’t be reliably measured.
Handouts: Gagne Cheat Sheet; Varieties of Learning Table; Build-a-Performance-Objective
Health Care Education's Triple Aim: Outcomes, Objectives, and Assessments (Advancing Educational Innovations & Research: Three Sessions)
First Aim: Outcomes (Dec. 14, 2016)
Second Aim: Generating Objectives (Jan 18, 2016)
Third Aim: Assessment (Feb. 15, 2017)
Presenter: Dr. Van Eck
In the first session, learn how and why to classify learning outcomes. In the second session, learn how to align those outcomes with measurable objectives. In the third session, tie it all together by learning when and how to use different types of assessments to measure the outcomes specified by your objectives.
Handouts: Varieties of Learning & Verb Table
Related reading:
Clinical Precepting Panel
Presenters:
Jeff Hostetter, MD
Cherie Graves, PhD, OTR/L
Mindy Staveteig, MMS, PA-C
Chris Tiongson, MD
Steven Westereng, PhD, ATC, CSCS
Integrate and Engage: Using Interactive Platforms to Enhance Basic Science Integration into Clinical Experiences
Presenters: Amanda Haage, PhD; Laura Nichols, MD; Sarah Sletten, PhD
As part of the current medical curriculum redesign, this group of medical educators was tasked with developing methods for integrating basic science concepts into the Phase 2 curriculum. Over the past year they have put into practice a series of three workshops centered on the clinical presentation of “shortness of breath” as interactive learning sessions during the internal medicine clerkship. These clerkship sessions are repeated for each internal medicine clerkship rotation and utilize an interactive learning platform that anonymously poses questions to students in combination with zoom allowing all students to attend simultaneously across all campuses. These learning sessions are led collaboratively by a clinician and a basic scientist.
The presenters demonstrated an active learning session using the example of one of the actual patient cases, give insights into the development process of these active learning sessions, and shared their thoughts on how this model could be expanded to clerkships in other clinical sciences departments.
A Primer on Mentorship and Coaching
Presenter: Dr. Sabha Ganai
This session focused on mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching, and how we as educators
can help guide and motivate our trainees to achieve their goals. Join Dr. Sabha Ganai,
Associate Professor of Surgery to reflect on the adult learner, positive psychology,
and how to help inspire learners to direct themselves from an idea to action.
Presentation Slides
The 1-Minute Preceptor and Other Strategies for Busy Clinical Educators
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenters: Dr. Van Eck and Dr. Basson
Time has always been one of the major challenges for those who provide clinical education while simultaneously doing their own clinical work. COVID has exacerbated those challenges because of increased patient loads and the added burden of telehealth. In the first half of this session, Dr. Richard Van Eck, Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning, will provide an overview of the 1-minute preceptor model, and Dr. Marc Basson, Senior Associate Dean for Medicine and Research, will share some practical tips he has used in his own teaching and practice.
How Do Different Health Profession Students View Effective Clinical Preceptors?
(Educator-Scholar)
Presenter: Dr. Westereng (Sports Medicine)
In 2019, Dr. Steve Westereng sought to explore these differences as well as to examine commonalities across professions by studying preceptor effectiveness in 6 different professions. Join us as he shares the findings of the commonalities and differences in preceptor effectiveness. His research can assist educational programs utilizing interprofessional education to better understand their students’ perspective of past preceptors and their ideal preceptors.
Evidence-Based Teaching for Good Precepting
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenter: M. Tsuchiya (Sports Medicine)
Good precepting is a critical asset to health care education. In many cases, preceptors
lack the tools to teach effectively in the clinic or office and may not always recognize
the opportunities to apply effective teaching methods “just-in-time.” This session
will help preceptors apply evidence-based teaching strategies within the constraints
of time and space in clinical settings.
Using Social Media to Support Medical and Health Care Education
Presenters: Dr. Gunjan Manocha and Dr. Adrienne Salentiny
Social media is being used as an educational tool for expanding learning in the medical field. Social media platforms can be utilized for peer-to-peer engagement, active learning, interprofessional training and engagement of students and professionals to disseminate health care best practices. It is important to note that not all platforms are equally effective and further project-based evaluation is always needed to ascertain retention of medical knowledge through social media platforms. Join Dr. Gunjan Manocha, Director of Geriatric Education and Dr. Adrienne Salentiny, Instructional Design & Faculty Development, as they discuss the research around academic social media and their own experiences with Twitter for collaboration, networking, scholarship, and dissemination of knowledge. Applications, tips, and challenges will be shared.
Building the Perfect Poster (Professional Development Resources: 3 Sessions)
References, Graphics, and Copyright for Research Posters (Feb. 19, 2019)
Design Strategies for Effective Research Posters (March 5, 2019)
Production Strategies for Research Posters (April 2, 2019)
Presenters: A. Nickum and D. Olson (Library Resources); Dr. Salentiny and Dr. Van Eck (Education Resources); J. Lee (Information Resources)
This three-part professional development series is designed to cover the process of effective poster development from start to finish. Part 1 covers effective literature review strategies and fair use of images. Part 2 discusses strategies for condensing your research into a concise, powerful, and effective poster. Part 3 explores how to make your poster visually pleasing AND how to avoid technical snafus during layout and printing.
Handouts: Session 1 - Image Reuse; Session 2 - Poster Grading
Note: Session 2 had technical issues within the first 5 minutes. The slides for Session 2 are provided as a reference.
Educational Scholarship: Interdisciplinary Scholarly Research Options and Methods
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenters: D. Olson, A. Nickum (Library Resources); Dr. Van Eck
Conducting research with professionals from across multiple disciplines can be as difficult as it is rewarding, especially if a breakdown in communication or technology occurs. This session will present solutions to some of the more frustrating aspects of interdisciplinary research, focusing on methods, tools, workflows, and conceptual frameworks.
Handout: Bibliography
Introduction to Mentimeter
Presenters:
Richard Van Eck, PhD
Andrea Guthridge, MEd
Adrienne Salentiny, PhD
Cameron Van Der Valk (Mentimeter Representative)
Mentimeter provides many polling options, allowing faculty to create interactive presentations and collect real-time student feedback in a variety of formats (i.e. aggregation of individual responses, brainstormed word clouds, quizzes, image map questions, and more) to check knowledge and promote engagement. Learn more about Mentimeter and learn how to create and manage polls, survey questions, and response options; analyze and interpret poll results; and troubleshoot common challenges.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Microsoft Word That Will Change Your Life and Impress Your Friends!*
*OK, we covered more than 10 things and they may not be entirely impressive, but this workshop WILL make you way more productive!
Presenter: Dr. Van Eck
Usually the Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (TLAS) unit in Education Resources helps you learn how to design curriculum, deliver active learning, and conduct education scholarship. But sometimes, you just need to get things done.
This workshop will help you with the latter. Of all the lectures and demonstrations Dr. Richard Van Eck, Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning, has given, one of the most consistently popular has been on the tips and tricks he’s learned about Microsoft Word. This session covers how to...
- Build an automatic table of contents.
- Insert page numbering that changes format from one page to the next (e.g., no page numbering on the first page; lowercase Roman numerals for prefatory material; Arabic numerals for the main body).
- Change from landscape (wide) to portrait (tall) page formats and back again in the same document.
- Prevent tables from splitting rows across pages.
- Make table column headings show up on each new page .
- Get images and text to line up the way you want using tables and text wrapping.
- Use advanced find and replace to replace font types, italics, bold, paragraph returns, and other “invisible” text characteristics.
- Insert copied text so it matches the current font settings in your document (no reformatting stuff you copy from the Web).
- Fix errors in copied text (e.g., from a PDF) like double spaces, font changes, page breaks, multiple blank lines.
- Sort text alphabetically.
- Convert text to tables and vice-versa.
- Make forms with checkboxes in Word.
Organized Teaching: Control the Chaos and Support Student Success
September 23, 2021*
Due to technical difficulties, this recording is audio-only. The presentation slides
have been provided below the session description. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Presenter: Dr. Salentiny
Where can faculty find the time to deliver rich content, interact, provide feedback, evaluate, and develop meaningful relationships with students? This session will apply organizational and resource management methods to the ‘madness.’ Tips and tools designed to support intentional, meaningful, timely, and personalized interactions with students will be discussed. Strategies and tools designed to help faculty efficiently manage the evaluation of authentic learning activities, close the feedback loop, and cultivate rewarding instructor-student relationships will be explored.
Using OneNote to Get Organized: Faculty Experience
Presenter: Dr. Nadeau
From research to teaching, from service to departmental responsibilities, we have a lot on our plates. Some faculty and staff are also seeking higher education degrees or certifications, are active in professional organization activities, and have varied and unique day-to-day responsibilities. It becomes necessary to have a central location for materials and notes. Microsoft OneNote is a versatile online organization system allowing users to seamlessly manage workflow and resources across devices. Join Dr. Melanie Nadeau, Assistant Director and Assistant Professor in Public Health, to explore how she uses OneNote for keeping track of her many priorities. She shares her experience, challenges, tips, and tricks.
Controlling the Chaos in COVID and Beyond
Presenter: Dr. Salentiny
The recent TLAS faculty development needs assessment survey revealed productivity and organization as universal challenges, and it is easy to see why. Increased demands placed on us by remote access, technology, and demands outside of work such as home schooling and family care have all made it hard to meet our professional responsibilities as educators without sacrificing quality of learning. Remote teaching takes extra time, and hybrid or HyFlex teaching can feel like twice the effort for half the result, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Join Dr. Adrienne Salentiny to learn practical, applied techniques for managing the chaos without sacrificing quality.
Productivity during the pandemic: Strategies for balancing work, teaching, and parenting in the COVID era
Presenter: Dr. Salentiny
Through remote work and other restrictions due to COVID-19, our daily lives have completely changed. Teachers have had to quickly re-think their classes. Researchers have had to figure if and how their research projects could continue. Staff have had to completely change their workflows and adapt to the new workflows of their supervisors. As a result, we have LESS of everything (time, resources, access to colleagues and students, mental bandwidth, patience when things don’t work as expected) at the very time that our new normal requires we do MORE to be present and engaged. How are we to find the motivation, time, and efficiencies to help us forge onward without losing our minds in the process?
Applying Type-A Tendencies to Teaching: Tips to Coordinate the Chaos and Support Student Success (Evidence-Based Teaching)
Sept. 4, 2018
Presenter: Dr. Salentiny
Where can faculty find the time to deliver rich content, interact, provide feedback, evaluate, and develop meaningful relationships with students? Day-to-day scheduling constraints and responsibilities related to and beyond teaching make it difficult to find dedicated time to engage. Plus, time zones and technology present as additional obstacles to effective and efficient online instruction. Strategies and tools designed to help faculty efficiently manage the evaluation of authentic learning activities, close the feedback loop, and cultivate rewarding instructor-student relationships will be explored in this session.
Due to technical problems, this session was not recorded.
Simulation Principles and Implementation in Health Care Education
Presenter: Courtney Maguire
Creating Meaningful Rubrics
Presenter: Dr. Salentiny
Rubrics provide a single, powerful assessment tool that helps communicate assignment expectations (and reduce student questions), streamline the feedback process, improves consistency of grading, and increases the quality of student work. This session provides an overview and basics for how to build your own rubric.
Writing Effective Test Questions
Presenters: Dr. Kurt Borg, Andrea Guthridge, Dr. Ken Ruit, Dr. Richard Van Eck
This session focused on effective question-writing to ensure that your tests are assessing the subject-matter you teach.
10 Ways to Shorten Your Lecture and Improve Student Learning
Presenter: Dr. Van Eck
Sometimes it seems there is so much to cover that we have no choice but to create 100 slides and cover each one in 20 seconds to finish on time. We sound like parrots rather than faculty with deep expertise, and research shows that most students don’t learn from and retain this knowledge well as a result. In this workshop, Dr. Van Eck presents a variety of practical tips and tricks you can use to make room for teaching, not telling and shorten your lecture to still end class on time no matter how much great discussion ensues throughout.
Presentation Slides and Materials
Build-a-Rubric Hands-On Workshop: Learn How to Increase Student Performance, Grading Consistency, and Feedback Efficiency
(TLAS Tech)
Presenter: Dr. Salentiny
When you create complex assignments and projects, it can be challenging and time-consuming for you to grade them and to do so consistently. Students also struggle to understand exactly what you are expecting from such projects since many students are accustomed to traditional assessments such as straightforward exams. Rubrics provide a single, powerful assessment tool that helps communicate assignment expectations (and reduce student questions), streamline the feedback process, improves consistency of grading, and increases the quality of student work. Dr. Salentiny will walk you through how to build your own rubric.
Being a Good Teacher: It's Not as Difficult as We Make It
(Educator-Scholar)
Presenter: Dr. Kemp (Pathology)
Drawing from the books: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (2014, Brown & McDaniel) and Remediation of the Struggling Medical Learner (2017, Guerrasio), Dr. Kemp will share research-based learning strategies and explain how and why many popular techniques fall short. Using his own experiences as an educator, Dr. Kemp will connect these key ideas to practical techniques that educators can use to facilitate better retention of material by students.
Synthesizing Knowledge Using Concept Maps
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenter: Dr. Shabb (Biomedical Sciences)
Concept maps are an effective, visual way of integrating knowledge. We will briefly touch on their theoretical framework and see how they are being used in undergraduate biochemistry instruction at UND. Cmap software will be used.
Handout: Concept Map Grading Rubric
What Does Assessment Look Like in Evidence-Based Teaching?
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenters: Dr. Salentiny and Dr. Van Eck
Learn what the evidence says about selecting the right assessment strategies for your outcomes. From rubrics, to behavioral checklists, to traditional test questions, we'll help you connect your assessment approach to your course objectives and teaching strategies. Handout: Rubric Examples
There were technical difficulties for the first few minutes of this recording. Pair with the slides
Lightning Rounds: Issues Faced in Teaching Practice
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenters: Various
This meeting has two goals. To 1) share issues and get immediate feedback for solutions/resources from other instructors and 2) generate common ground for future meetings of the group. Individuals will share an issue they struggle with in their teaching practice (no preparation is required to present these issues - simply oral discussion). Others are invited to respond if they also face this issue or share a potential solution or resources for resolution.
Interprofessional Education at SMHS
Dec.12, 2024
Presenter:
Dr. Eric Johnson
Student Mental Health and Wellness
Presenters:
Michelle Montgomery
Dr. Melissa Naslund
Introduction to Mentoring: The Key to Trainee Retention, Completion, and Satisfaction
Presenter:
Dr. Catherine Brissette
Join Dr. Catherine Brissette, Biomedical Science Professor and Faculty Fellow with the School of Graduate Studies, to learn what mentoring is, why it matters, and how it leads to retention, completion, and satisfaction.
Navigating Difficult Conversations in Medical and Health Care Education
Presenters:
Dr. Catherine Brissette &
Michelle Montgomery
Whether your focus is teaching, research, clinical, or all of the above, you’ve likely encountered difficult professional situations requiring, well-thought, sometimes difficult communication. In medical and health sciences occupations, these conversations may need to occur with patients, colleagues, supervisors, or students. In this interactive session, we worked through through multiple scenarios in small groups, sharing tips and techniques.
Understanding Rural Communities: What Makes them Unique and Why it Matters in Medical and Health Sciences Education
(Prev. presented April 15, 2021)
Presenter: Mr. Brad Gibbens
As a School of Medicine in a rural state, we actively recruit students who come from rural areas. Brad Gibbens, Acting Director of the Center for Rural Health and assistant professor, tells us more about the culture they come from, which is both a culture we want to send them back to and a culture that we interact within trying to identify training sites. Rural communities are complex systems. Much more so than many may think. They are not simply smaller, remote versions of urban settings. The session discusses rural contextual facets related to demographics, economics, and culture. This is an overview of rural culture with an emphasis on rural North Dakota as it applies to our students, our teaching and guidance, and the success of our programs.
Interprofessional Education at SMHS
(Guest Speaker)
Presenters: Dr. E. Johnson (SMHS); Dr. Hafferty (Mayo Clinic)
A two-part discussion including a primer provided by Dr. Eric Johnson (UND, Altru Health System) and a seminar by guest speaker Dr. Frederic Hafferty (Mayo Clinic).
Panel Discussion of the ADA and Accommodation in Healthcare Education
(Evidence-Based Teaching)
Presenters: Dr. Jedlicka, Dr. Fox, C. Graves (Occupational Therapy); D. Glennon (Disability Services for Students)
A panel of faculty and student affairs and disability services experts will lead a discussion about the Americans with Disability Act and implications, problems, and solutions to issues that arise in healthcare education, including what is possible and reasonable, who pays, and how to navigate this complex and important necessity in support of learning for all.
Handouts: ADA and Reasonable Accommodations; ADA and Universal Design in Medical Field Teaching and Clinicals;
Worksheet: Reasonable Accommodation Interactive Process
Suggest a Topic or Lead a Session
If you have any questions, would like more information, or would like to suggest (or lead!) a future meeting topic, contact Adrienne Salentiny for more information.
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Earn Faculty Development Badges!
SMHS faculty and staff who are interested in and motivated to prioritize teaching,
learning, and educational scholarship are invited to work through our leveled TLAS
badging programs
TLAS offers two faculty-development and teaching/learning-focused badge programs. If you feel you have met the criteria for any of these, please contact adrienne.salentiny@und.edu or andrea.guthridge@und.edu with a list of activities and evidence toward badge completion!
Educator-Scholar badges focus on activities around teaching, learning, instructional design, and educational scholarship. Criteria for each of the three levels are available:
Faculty Development Needs Assessment & Results
TLAS conducted our 2023 Needs Assessment during Summer 2023. Responses to the 2023 faculty development needs assessment survey revealed several preferences, ideas, and areas of focus which are used to focus our monthly faculty development offerings. Thank you to everyone who provided input —we heard you! We’ll continue to share the developments we make in response throughout the next year. As always, please reach out to us with questions, suggestions, concerns, or to present a faculty development session or activity!
2023 Needs Assessment Summary of Findings and Results
Previous Needs Assessments:
2021 Needs Assessment Summary of Findings and Results
2020 Needs Assessment Summary of Findings and Results
The Faculty Needs Assessment is delivered every two years, and the next survey will be conducted in Summer 2025.
More Workshops at UND
Interested in other faculty development opportunities?
- The Office of Education and Faculty Affairs coordinates faculty development schoolwide.
- The Teaching, Transformation, and Development Academy (TTaDa) is a campus-wide unit offering many services, including periodic workshops related to several UND academic technologies such as Blackboard, Yuja, VoiceThread, Collaborate Ultra, and Zoom. They additionally offer topics on writing, teaching, inclusion, and more. Now that most sessions are offered online, it's never been easier to attend a campus workshop!