Week of April 25, 2016 – Professional Development Opportunities

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On-Demand Professional Development

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of April 25, 2016)

Dates: Available April 25, 2016 – May 1, 2016
Session Title: Is Your Syllabus Sending the Wrong Message?
Presenter: Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D. (Professor Emerita of Teaching and Learning – Penn State Berks)

Overview:

They say you have only one chance to make a first impression. If that’s true, what is your syllabus saying about your class? Find out how you can use your syllabus to create interest and inspire learning in your courses in Is Your Syllabus Sending the Wrong Message? featuring Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D., award-winning educator and editor of The Teaching Professor newsletter.

Your syllabus and classroom policies set the tone for your class, but they may not be creating a welcoming learning environment. Weimer has identified two significant ways classroom policies can be counterproductive:

  • Policy creep—This develops when professors attempt to close loopholes and prevent student misbehavior by adding policy after policy, year after year.
  • An authoritarian tone—By focusing on the negative and laying down the law, policies can promote an adversarial environment from the start

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Weimer shares course design tips and supplemental materials designed to help you use classroom policies to support student engagement and a smooth-running classroom. You’ll explore two alternative approaches to help you spark motivation and clarify responsibility:

  • Abandoning the quest to write policies to cover all potential problems
  • Getting students involved in setting policies

Learning goals

After completing this classroom management focused program, you’ll be able to:

  • Articulate a proactive, student-focused role for classroom policies in the syllabus
  • Identify three key concerns about the function of classroom policies in your syllabus
  • Describe alternative approaches to classroom policy design
  • Incorporate effective classroom policy design in your next syllabus

The session link and login information to this 20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor will be available in the announcements section of the Professional Development course within Blackboard on April 25th. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

Go2Knowledge (Your Link to On-Demand Professional Development)

UTHSC has purchased an institutional membership to Innovative Educators. Our membership provides all UTHSC faculty and staff access to on-demand events available through the Innovative Educator’s digital library (Go2Knowledge).

The Go2Knowledge library contains over a hundred sessions that fall within six of the following categories:

  • At-risk populations
  • Campus safety
  • Organizational development
  • Student success
  • Teaching and learning
  • Technology

Printable certificates of completion are available for each session. For information related to accessing sessions available through Innovative Educators/Go2Knowledge please visit the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

TLC’s Showcase in Teaching and Learning 

Date: April 28, 2016
Time: 8:30 AM – 1:3o PM
Location: Student Alumni Center (SAC)

Overview:

The UTHSC Teaching and Learning Center Showcase will highlight successful teaching strategies used by faculty at UTHSC! Two keynote speakers will address instructional ideas that can be used by all teaching faculty. Faculty will also have the opportunity to participate in concurrent sessions packed with useful ideas.Time will be set aside for faculty to mix, mingle, discuss, and share ideas and successful (as well as not so successful) strategies. 

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/tlc-showcase-4-28-2016

Going for gold at the intersection of education and technology: Making Quality Matter

Date: May 23, 2016
Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: GEB A304

Presenter: Deb Adair (Executive Director – Quality Matters)

Overview:

QM is an organization that takes a hard look at the quality of online and blended learning courses and programs and seeks to support faculty and institutions in continually improving student learning outcomes. We look back in reliance on the research literature to help us understand what has been working and why.  We look ahead at the innovations in the field to understand what quality might look like as we build towards the future.  In the middle, in the boundary spanning role we play, we see the heart of higher education, our educators, ready to move forward but wary of the process.  Is the benefit of change worth the cost to achieve it?  What is the urgency, anyway?   How do we move forward in teaching with technology, in all formats, in a way that maximizes the affordances of technology while respecting the gold standard of faculty-student engagement?

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-MakingQualityMatter

The Truth About Flipped Classrooms

Date: June 1, 2016
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: GEB A304

Presenter: Dr. Julie Schell (Director of OnRamps and Strategic Initiatives & Clinical Assistant Professor  in the College of Education at the University of Texas Austin)

Overview:

Instructors all over the globe are turning their students’ worlds around by flipping their classrooms. In a flipped class, teachers move information coverage out of the lecture hall so that they can better leverage in-­‐class time to address student difficulties and misconceptions. In this interactive session, Dr. Julie Schell will flip the webinar by providing brief introductory, pre-­‐workshop activities to participants. She will use responses from these activities in the workshop and discuss the three basic steps for effectively flipping any classroom. Throughout the presentation, participants will confront and resolve a series of common myths about flipped teaching.

Note: This is not a session on how to create lecture videos.

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-FlippedClassrooms

 Professional Sessions

How to Huddle: A huddle coaching program for interprofessional staff and trainees in ambulatory settings (AIHC Webinar Series)

Date: Session was held April 19, 2016 
Archive Available: https://aihc-us.org/aihc-interprofessional-webinar

Presenters: Rebecca Shunk, MD (Physician Co-Director, Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education, San Francisco VA Health Care System); Terry Keene, DNP, FNP-BC, ARNP (NP Co-Director, Center for Excellence in Primary Care Education, San Francisco VA & Assistance Clinical Professor, UCSF School of Nursing)

Overview: 

Many outpatient clinics where health professionals work and train will transition to a team-based medical home model over the next several years. Therefore, these clinics and affiliated training programs need innovative approaches to prepare the workforce and incorporate trainees into team-based delivery systems. To address this need, educators at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System embraced preclinic team “huddles” which are brief meetings to facilitate care coordination and integrated trainees into these huddles. They developed an interprofessional huddle-coaching program to support staff and trainees (nurse practitioner students and internal medicine residents who function as primary providers for patient panels in VA outpatient primary care clinics) in learning how to huddle and how to work together effectively as a team. The huddle-coaching program focuses on structuring the huddle process via scheduling, checklists, and designated huddle coaches; building relationships among team members through team-building activities; and teaching core skills to support collaborative practice.

The webinar will provide information on the SFVAHCS approach to training health professionals how to huddle as well as provide materials, lessons learned and strategies for success.

Objectives: 

  • Reflect on the experiences of care teams implementing inpatient collaborative care
  • Discuss practical approaches for transforming practice patterns in care environments
  • Understand collaborative Social Fields and how they are built through social interactions

Contemporary Issues in Comorbid Conditions of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Date: May 13, 2016 
Time: 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM 
Location: University of Memphis – Holiday Inn Memphis

Overview: 

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Division of Rheumatology is hosting a daylong symposium on comorbid conditions seen in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). The symposium will focus on key clinical topics in the diagnosis and management of comorbid conditions such as cardiovascular disease, infections and malignancies etc. This is primarily designed for primary care providers, rheumatologists and other subspecialists involved in the care of RA patients. The seminar will provide a unique opportunity for clinicians to learn from and interact with leading national faculties in order to increase clinical knowledge and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

Objectives:

  • Enhance their knowledge about pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of Rheumatoid Arthritis

  • Recognize comorbidities e.g: cardiovascular disease, malignancies, serious infections, pulmonary disease, osteoporosis seen in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients

  • Understand the impact of the comorbid conditions in the management, course and outcome of Rheumatoid arthritis

  • Review the management of these comorbid conditions

  • Understand how collaborative management between primary care providers, other medicine subspecialists and rheumatologists is necessary and crucial for optimal outcome

Registration:

Registration fee is $25 per attendee. Fellows, residents and students are Free! 

The preferred method for registration is via the online registration link located at www.utconferences.com/rheumatoidarthritis2016. Online registration is available until May 13, 2016.

The University of Tennessee College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Tennessee College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. 

Did you know….

You can also visit the Professional Development Calendar to access a list of upcoming sessions sponsored by Academic/Faculty Affairs or other groups on campus at: https://academic.uthsc.edu/tlc/calendar.php

You can apply credit received for professional development outside the university to your faculty training records? Simply complete the HR Request for Additional Training Credit form found at http://www.uthsc.edu/hrtraining/pdfs/additional_training_credit_form.pdf and forward it, along with a copy of the program’s agenda, to the HR Training Department at 910 Madison, Suite 727.

Why do this? The University of TN believes that professional development and training of its employees are central to the university’s mission, vision, and values. Having credit received elsewhere to your UTHSC training records is very useful to your department and college – for things such as annual reviews and program accreditations.

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