College of Medicine Educator Development Program: Teaching & Curriculum Design Series

College of Medicine

The Teaching and Leadership Series is a component of the Educator Development Program that combines face-to-face group workshops and independent work to help faculty foster understanding of teaching and curriculum development as it applies to their professional practice. Enrolled faculty will have opportunities to design, and, wherever possible, implement curricula, while participating in interactive sessions on the design, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based teaching in the health sciences. 

Learning Outcomes

All participants can expect to:

  • Develop a teaching philosophy 
  • Implement appropriate, effective, and differentiated pedagogical teaching and learning approaches across common venues and settings 
  • Apply basic design principles, principles of clinical teaching and learning and research-based best practices to an individually designed curriculum 
  • Provide peers and learners with clear, effective, and constructive feedback while attending to learners needs 
  • Incorporate technology into planned learning experiences 
  • Critically evaluate instructional models and assessments 
  • Disseminate curriculum project
Participation Requirements

Participants must attend the 4 of the 5 face-to-face sessions, complete pre-modules and complete assignments outside the face-to-face sessions in order to advance toward participant outcomes. In advance of the first face-to-face session, participants must complete the Teaching and Leadership Series Learners’ Needs Assessment; which will subsequently inform differentiated approaches to engaging faculty in educational activities throughout the program.  Particpants will also complete a curriculum outline and present the outline to their peers.

 

VERIFICATION OF PARTICIPATION

The final teaching endorsement application will require you to upload a completion of criteria document/certificate obtained from the Educator Development program.

Required Hours
4 Hours per face to face meeting for a total of 20 in face to face sessions, and 2 hours of pre-work for each session and 2 hours of individual and small group activities.
Timeline for Completion
9 months

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Program Elements

Title Delivery Method Hours Description
In-person sessions
 In-person
  • In-person sessions provide opportunities to practice many of the elements of curriculum design including: developing learning objectives, assessment, developing teaching materials, educational technology, and curricular leadership.
Pre-modules
Online
  • Pre-modules are available before each face to face session including eLearning, articles, videos, and podcasts.
Observed teaching experiences
In-person
  • Observed teaching experiences will be utilized to provide opportunities for direct observation and practice.   The setting of teaching observation will be the choice of the participant; however,  teaching opportunities for observation would include:
    • Teaching residents and/or students in clinical settings while on inpatient teaching service or outpatient clinic.
    • Large group resident lectures
    • Small group student teachings
Curriculum Project
 In-person
  • Completion of a curriculum project in the student’s area of choice through the workshops with feedback from mentors, facilitators and peers.
  • Required project presentation and submission at the end of the course.