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Week of May 31, 2016 – Professional Development Opportunities

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Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

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

Information for virtual attendee access: https://academic.uthsc.edu/tlc/events/flippedclass.php

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

Date: Session took place May 23, 2016
Presenter: Deb Adair (Executive Director – Quality Matters)

Session 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?

View the session recording: https://academic.uthsc.edu/tlc/events/makingqm.php

Millennials: Understanding Generational Differences and their Impact on Teaching and Learning

Date: Session took place May 11, 2016
Presenter: Dr. Jeanne Farnan, MD (The University of Chicago Department of Medicine)

Session Overview:

This session was hosted by the UTHSC College of Pharmacy. To view the session please go to the Session/Webinar Archives section of the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

On-Demand Professional Development

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 Archives)

Accessing Archived Session Materials:

Happen to miss one of the 20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor sessions? Archived session materials for the Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 series are available in the Professional Development course within Blackboard. To access the materials, click the Session/Webinar Archives tab in the course menu located on the left side of the page. The session materials are located within the Monday Morning Mentor Series content folder.

Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Institutional Membership 

UTHSC is now an institutional member of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). The ELI is committed to advancing learning through the innovative application of technology.

Membership Highlights

Accessing ELI Resources

In order to access ELI member-only resources,  you will need to create an EDUCAUSE profile. If you do not have a profile, visit our login page and follow the instructions to create your personal EDUCAUSE profile.

To further explore your member benefits, visit www.educause.edu/eli, and also look for the bimonthly newsletter to keep up-to-date with new developments. 

Go2Knowledge (Your Link to On-Demand Professional Development)

UTHSC is now an institutional member of 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.

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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Week of May 23, 2016 – Professional Development Opportunities

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Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

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

On-Demand Professional Development

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 Archives)

Accessing Archived Session Materials:

Happen to miss one of the 20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor sessions? Archived session materials for the Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 series are available in the Professional Development course within Blackboard. To access the materials, click the Session/Webinar Archives tab in the course menu located on the left side of the page. The session materials are located within the Monday Morning Mentor Series content folder.

Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Institutional Membership 

UTHSC is now an institutional member of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). The ELI is committed to advancing learning through the innovative application of technology.

Membership Highlights

Accessing ELI Resources

In order to access ELI member-only resources,  you will need to create an EDUCAUSE profile. If you do not have a profile, visit our login page and follow the instructions to create your personal EDUCAUSE profile.

To further explore your member benefits, visit www.educause.edu/eli, and also look for the bimonthly newsletter to keep up-to-date with new developments. 

Go2Knowledge (Your Link to On-Demand Professional Development)

UTHSC is now an institutional member of 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.

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.

Week of May 16, 2016 – Professional Development Opportunities

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 Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

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

On-Demand Professional Development

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 Archives)

Accessing Archived Session Materials:

Happen to miss one of the 20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor sessions? Archived session materials for the Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 series are available in the Professional Development course within Blackboard. To access the materials, click the Session/Webinar Archives tab in the course menu located on the left side of the page. The session materials are located within the Monday Morning Mentor Series content folder.

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.

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.

Week of May 9, 2016 – Professional Development Opportunities

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On-Demand Professional Development

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of May 9, 2016)

Dates: Available May 9, 2016 – May 15, 2016
Session Title: How Can Students Use Self-Compassion to Reduce Test Anxiety?
Presenter: Kristin Roush, Ph.D. (Psychology Professor – Central New Mexico Community College)

Overview:

Sometimes students get in their own way. They panic before exams and fill their heads with worries about failure. They create excess anxiety that clouds their thinking and prevents them from performing optimally. Then their exam results don’t adequately reflect what they have learned. This reinforces their fears and makes it worse the next time around.

It can be a vicious cycle that is bad for your students and bad for you. But you can break the cycle by teaching students how to think differently about testing and about themselves. You can learn how to do that in How Can Students Use Self-Compassion to Reduce Test Anxiety? This Magna 20-Minute Mentor with Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D., presents the mindful self-compassion technique and shows how it can help students change how they feel and how they think about testing so they are better able to demonstrate their learning on exams.

When you are finished with this program, you will be able to:

  • Understand the difference between fear and anxiety
  • Appreciate that test anxiety decreases the validity of test results
  • Recognize the difference between traditional test anxiety interventions and the Mindful Self-Compassion approach
  • Be able to articulate the benefits of mindful self-compassion
  • Be able to facilitate students’ use of mindful self-compassion applications
  • Learn several specific techniques to reduce test anxiety

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 May 9th. 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

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

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.

Week of May 2, 2016 – Professional Development Opportunities

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On-Demand Professional Development

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of May 2, 2016)

Dates: Available May 2, 2016 – May 8, 2016
Session Title: How Can I Transform My Tests into Learning Tools?
Presenters: Debi Moon, J.D. (Assistant Vice President of Educational Affairs – Georgia Perimeter College); Rob Jenkins, M.A. (Associate Professor of English – Georgia Perimeter College)

Overview:

Tests and other assessments are effective tools for determining how well students  learned (and how well you taught) earlier in the semester. But they don’t really do much to help students learn in the present, or as the semester progresses. At least, summative assessments don’t. But formative ones, that occur throughout the semester and across the entire learning process, can.

You’ll discover how to incorporate these highly effective tools into your teaching in the Magna 20 Minute Mentor program, How Can I Transform My Tests Into Learning Tools?.

Led by Rob Jenkins, M.A., professor of English and “Two-Year Track” columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Debi Moon, J.D., recipient of a National Teaching Excellence Award and administration and faculty member at Georgia Perimeter College, this fast, focused Magna 20-Minute Mentor program will provide you with an assortment of tools and techniques to promote better learning.

Once you’ve viewed the program, you’ll know:

  • The benefits of formative assessments.
  • Which assessments are most helpful in improving student learning.
  • Why giving more assessments doesn’t have to mean more work for you.
  • How formative assessments can help you improve your pedagogy.

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 May 2nd. 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

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

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.

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.

Week of April 18, 2016 – Professional Development Opportunities

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On-Demand Professional Development

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of April 18, 2016)

Dates: Available April 18, 2016 – April 24, 2016
Session Title: How Do Prepared Students Change the Way I Teach?
Presenters: J. Robert Gillette, Ph.D. (Associate Professor – University of Kentucky); Lynn Gillette, Ph.D. (Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs – Nicholls State University)

Overview:

When students come to class prepared, you can—actually, you must—adjust how you teach. Instead of lecturing, you will employ effective new strategies that help your students process and master course content. These engaging new approaches also celebrate and reward your students for the effort they put into preparation. 

The techniques and tools you discover in How Do Prepared Students Change the Way I Teach? will make you a more effective teacher. Whatever your discipline, you will be better able to engage your students in course material.

When you are finished with this program, you will be able to:

  • Describe how student preparation for class transforms the student learning experience and invigorates teaching
  • Create at least two in-class active learning activities that rely on student preparation
  • Identify in-class activities that rely on student preparation and lead to higher-level learning
  • Describe how class preparation assignments show students respect and also create space and time for students to share their voices
  • Validate student preparation and reinforce its importance with your in-class activities
  • Use student preparation to increase students’ critical thinking

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 18th. 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

OLC Innovate 2016 – Innovations in Blended and Online Learning

Dates: April 20th – April 22nd

Conference Overview:

SIX REASONS TO VIRTUALLY JOIN US AT OLC INNOVATE

To ensure learning remains at the forefront while we witness the confluence of technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge, OLC Innovate will aim to address these six concerns (and many more!):

  • How do we develop learning environments that support interconnectedness between educators and students, and are equipped to quickly change processes and strategies, while simultaneously fostering and celebrating creativity and ingenuity?
  • What new methods and technologies are most scalable in teaching and learning? Which are most prevalent and why?
  • How has technology changed teaching and knowledge acquisition and how will we adjust current paradigms to ensure sound pedagogy as we innovate?
  • How does technology in the classroom increase student engagement?
  • What is the best balance between analog and digitally enhanced teaching?
  • What are common obstacles that educators face regarding technology? How can we avoid being technocentric while improving pedagogical practice with technology?

UTHSC has purchased an institutional virtual attendee OLC Innovate package that will allow any faculty or staff member virtual attendee session access for sessions that will be streamed live from the conference site in New Orleans, LA. Virtual attendee access will allow you to view the live sessions from any location. Can’t make time during these three days to participate? Go ahead and register for virtual attendee and have access to the session recordings for one year.

A complete list of  sessions available to virtual attendees can be found at: http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-innovate/program/all_sessions/#streamed

Please contact Kristy Conger (kconger@uthsc.edu / 901-448-2253) to request virtual attendee access for an individual or a college/program/department. This is a great professional development opportunity for those who teach online or support online faculty.

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: April 19, 2016 
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
Location: GEB A204

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.

Week of April 11, 2016 – Professional Development Opportunities

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On-Demand Professional Development

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of April 11, 2016)

Dates: Available April 11, 2016 – April 17, 2016
Session Title: What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?
Presenter: Kristin Roush, Ph.D. (Psychology Professor – Central New Mexico Community College)

Overview:

On any given test day, there are probably students in your class who are overtired. And that is only one of the things interfering with your students’ test performance. Other students are distracted by relationship problems or ailing parents. Some are stressed by heavy course loads, demanding jobs, or family responsibilities. And that doesn’t include those students who prepared inadequately or those who tried to learn the material but lack effective study or test-taking skills.

When you think about it, there are a lot of things going on that can keep your students from performing at their best. Yet there are ways to help your students identify their own obstacles and even begin to resolve them so that they can learn course material and effectively demonstrate their knowledge on exams.

This Magna 20-Minute Mentor with Kristin L. Roush, Ph.D. (What Key Factors Influence Test Performance?) breaks down a real problem and gives you a viable solution that you can implement right away. You can help your students help themselves perform better on exams.

Topics Covered

In just 20 minutes, you will learn how to use a post-exam questionnaire and reflection tool to steer students toward overcoming the factors that are keeping them from performing at their best.

Learning Goals

When you are finished with this program, you will:

  • Understand and appreciate the varied factors that contribute to test performance
  • Recognize that test performance is far more than just a function of how much students study
  • Be comfortable with the included Test Performance Reflection Exercise and how it can be used to facilitate improved student learning and test performance
  • Be able to administer the questionnaire to students and guide their plans for making useful changes to improve their learning and test performance

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 11th. 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

OLC Innovate 2016 – Innovations in Blended and Online Learning

Dates: April 20th – April 22nd

Conference Overview:

SIX REASONS TO VIRTUALLY JOIN US AT OLC INNOVATE

To ensure learning remains at the forefront while we witness the confluence of technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge, OLC Innovate will aim to address these six concerns (and many more!):

  • How do we develop learning environments that support interconnectedness between educators and students, and are equipped to quickly change processes and strategies, while simultaneously fostering and celebrating creativity and ingenuity?
  • What new methods and technologies are most scalable in teaching and learning? Which are most prevalent and why?
  • How has technology changed teaching and knowledge acquisition and how will we adjust current paradigms to ensure sound pedagogy as we innovate?
  • How does technology in the classroom increase student engagement?
  • What is the best balance between analog and digitally enhanced teaching?
  • What are common obstacles that educators face regarding technology? How can we avoid being technocentric while improving pedagogical practice with technology?

UTHSC has purchased an institutional virtual attendee OLC Innovate package that will allow any faculty or staff member virtual attendee session access for sessions that will be streamed live from the conference site in New Orleans, LA. Virtual attendee access will allow you to view the live sessions from any location. Can’t make time during these three days to participate? Go ahead and register for virtual attendee and have access to the session recordings for one year.

A complete list of  sessions available to virtual attendees can be found at: http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-innovate/program/all_sessions/#streamed

Please contact Kristy Conger (kconger@uthsc.edu / 901-448-2253) to request virtual attendee access for an individual or a college/program/department. This is a great professional development opportunity for those who teach online or support online faculty.

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

Dealing with Recent Changes in NIH Proposals

Date: April 13, 2016 
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (Light refreshments will be served)
Location: Hamilton Eye Institute – Freeman Auditorium (930 Madison, 3rd Floor)

Presenter: Dr. Israel Goldberg

Overview: 

This session is open to all UTHSC faculty, postdocs, administrators, students, and staff. 

For more information regarding Dr. Goldberg please visit: http://www.uthsc.edu/research/research_resources/consulting.php

TLC Reception and Networking Event 

Date: April 14, 2016 
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM 
Location: Madison Plaza – East Dining Area

Overview: 

Join Colleagues and the Teaching and Learning Center Advisory Board, Directorship, and Staff for tea and coffee in the Madison Plaza Dining area. 

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-reception-04-14-2016

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/cii/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.

Week of April 4, 2016 – Professional Development Opportunities

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On-Demand Professional Development

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of April 4, 2016)

Dates: Available April 4, 2016 – April 10, 2016
Session Title: How Do I Prepare a SoTL Article for Publication?
Presenter: Milton D. Cox, Ph.D. (Director Emeritus of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment – Miami University, Ohio)

Overview:

Faculty and administrators everywhere are growing increasingly interested in turning their scholarly attention toward improving higher education with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, or SoTL. SoTL is a multidisciplinary endeavor, and the results benefit everyone—students, faculty, and institutions of higher learning. Everything from math anxiety to inverted classrooms to making your campus welcoming for first-generation college students can be explored through SoTL.

Find out how you can contribute to the growing SoTL market as Milton D. Cox, Ph.D., founder and director emeritus of the Center for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching, and University Assessment at Miami University, Ohio, shares his extensive experience in promoting excellence in college teaching. Cox, an authority on SoTL and faculty learning communities, or FLCs, developed this session (How Do I Prepare a SoTL Article for Publication?) for busy faculty. Guiding you from topic selection to contacting editors regarding publishing possibilities, he shares insights that are as energizing as they are practical.

Discover how to spot projects appropriate for SoTL, such as:

  • A problem or opportunity involving student learning or institutional change
  • Innovations to enhance student learning
  • Applications for new curriculum, technology, and assessment
  • New ways to achieve learning objectives or institutional goals

Learning Goals

After participating in this faculty development session, which moves you from comprehension through application to analysis according to Bloom’s Taxonomy, you’ll be able to:

  • Describe how to design and implement a new SoTL project
  • Demonstrate how to prepare a SoTL manuscript
  • Analyze and avoid the pitfalls that lead to rejection of SoTL manuscripts

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 4th. 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

OLC Innovate 2016 – Innovations in Blended and Online Learning

Dates: April 20th – April 22nd

Conference Overview:

SIX REASONS TO VIRTUALLY JOIN US AT OLC INNOVATE

To ensure learning remains at the forefront while we witness the confluence of technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge, OLC Innovate will aim to address these six concerns (and many more!):

  • How do we develop learning environments that support interconnectedness between educators and students, and are equipped to quickly change processes and strategies, while simultaneously fostering and celebrating creativity and ingenuity?
  • What new methods and technologies are most scalable in teaching and learning? Which are most prevalent and why?
  • How has technology changed teaching and knowledge acquisition and how will we adjust current paradigms to ensure sound pedagogy as we innovate?
  • How does technology in the classroom increase student engagement?
  • What is the best balance between analog and digitally enhanced teaching?
  • What are common obstacles that educators face regarding technology? How can we avoid being technocentric while improving pedagogical practice with technology?

UTHSC has purchased an institutional virtual attendee OLC Innovate package that will allow any faculty or staff member virtual attendee session access for sessions that will be streamed live from the conference site in New Orleans, LA. Virtual attendee access will allow you to view the live sessions from any location. Can’t make time during these three days to participate? Go ahead and register for virtual attendee and have access to the session recordings for one year.

A complete list of  sessions available to virtual attendees can be found at: http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-innovate/program/all_sessions/#streamed

Please contact Kristy Conger (kconger@uthsc.edu / 901-448-2253) to request virtual attendee access for an individual or a college/program/department. This is a great professional development opportunity for those who teach online or support online faculty.

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

 Professional Sessions

Dealing with Recent Changes in NIH Proposals

Date: April 13, 2016 
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (Light refreshments will be served)
Location: Hamilton Eye Institute – Freeman Auditorium (930 Madison, 3rd Floor)

Presenter: Dr. Israel Goldberg

Overview: 

This session is open to all UTHSC faculty, postdocs, administrators, students, and staff. 

For more information regarding Dr. Goldberg please visit: http://www.uthsc.edu/research/research_resources/consulting.php

TLC Reception and Networking Event 

Date: April 14, 2016 
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM 
Location: Madison Plaza – East Dining Area

Overview: 

Join Colleagues and the Teaching and Learning Center Advisory Board, Directorship, and Staff for tea and coffee in the Madison Plaza Dining area. 

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-reception-04-14-2016

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/cii/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.

Week of March 28, 2016 – Professional Development Opportunities

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On-Demand Professional Development

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of March 28, 2016)

Dates: Available March 28, 2016 – April 3, 2016
Session Title: How Can I Enhance Class Using Story, Popular Media and Objects?
Presenter: Alice Cassidy, Ph.D. (First Year Seminar Coordinator, Faculties of Science and Land and Food Systems – University of British Columbia)

Overview:

Committed educators are always looking for dynamic ways to grab and hold their students’ attention, but How Can I Enhance Class Using Story, Popular Media & Objects? does more than list in-class activities. Presenter Alice Cassidy, Ph.D., grounds her practical and focused session in learning theory, such as idea-based, brain-based and situated learning, to give you a framework for ongoing exploration and innovation.

Reviewing current thinking on the most effective ways to structure teaching and learning will help you make sure your classes are interesting and relevant for today’s college students. You’ll learn innovative ways to enhance student engagement and achieve learning outcomes through in-class use of:

  • Story or narrative Books and other readings
  • Objects TV and movies
  • Websites and social media

You’ll see how asking students to explain course concepts by using everyday objects, getting students to do a skit based on their reading, linking course content to current events, and harnessing students’ attachment to their cell phones can enrich teaching and learning.

Learning Outcomes

In this student engagement presentation you’ll explore:

  • “New” and “traditional” devices you can bring into your classroom to enhance student engagement
  • How you can use these devices and in-class activities to explain:
    • Concepts
    • Cap a lesson
    • Help students make new connections
    • Assimilate course readings
  • Resources you can use to enliven your classes and promote deeper understanding of course material.

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 March 28th . 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

OLC Innovate 2016 – Innovations in Blended and Online Learning

Dates: April 20th – April 22nd

Conference Overview:

SIX REASONS TO VIRTUALLY JOIN US AT OLC INNOVATE

To ensure learning remains at the forefront while we witness the confluence of technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge, OLC Innovate will aim to address these six concerns (and many more!):

  • How do we develop learning environments that support interconnectedness between educators and students, and are equipped to quickly change processes and strategies, while simultaneously fostering and celebrating creativity and ingenuity?
  • What new methods and technologies are most scalable in teaching and learning? Which are most prevalent and why?
  • How has technology changed teaching and knowledge acquisition and how will we adjust current paradigms to ensure sound pedagogy as we innovate?
  • How does technology in the classroom increase student engagement?
  • What is the best balance between analog and digitally enhanced teaching?
  • What are common obstacles that educators face regarding technology? How can we avoid being technocentric while improving pedagogical practice with technology?

UTHSC has purchased an institutional virtual attendee OLC Innovate package that will allow any faculty or staff member virtual attendee session access for sessions that will be streamed live from the conference site in New Orleans, LA. Virtual attendee access will allow you to view the live sessions from any location. Can’t make time during these three days to participate? Go ahead and register for virtual attendee and have access to the session recordings for one year.

A complete list of  sessions available to virtual attendees can be found at: http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-innovate/program/all_sessions/#streamed

Please contact Kristy Conger (kconger@uthsc.edu / 901-448-2253) to request virtual attendee access for an individual or a college/program/department. This is a great professional development opportunity for those who teach online or support online faculty.

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

 Professional Sessions

Common IRB Provisos to Avoid

Date: March 30, 2016 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM 
Location: Hamilton Eye Institute – Freeman Auditorium (930 Madison, 3rd Floor)

Overview:

Join the Institutional Review Board for “Common IRB Provisos to Avoid” on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 from 12:00 to 1:00 pm in the Hamilton Eye Institute’s Freeman Auditorium, 930 Madison, 3rd floor. The auditorium is easily accessible for attendees without a UTHSC badge coming from off-campus. Parking is available in the covered garage adjacent to the 930 Madison Building.

You may view the program remotely by clicking on the following site at the time of the session: http://mediaserver.uthsc.edu/uthscms/Play/00cc165828064636a730c739a9647b2c1d

If you miss the session, the video and slides will be posted a few days after the training session to the IRB  website (under “See Previous IRB Insights materials.”) at: (http://www.uthsc.edu/research/research_compliance/IRB/training.php)

New Faculty Orientation

Date: April 1, 2016 (Friday)
Time: 7:30 AM – 1:00 PM (A light breakfast and lunch will be served)
Location: SAC (Student Alumni Center) – Dining Hall

Register to attend: http://bit.do/NFO-Spring2016

Overview:

The Office of Academic, Faculty, and Student Affairs (AFSA) will be hosting New Faculty Orientation as a supplement to the orientation that is provided by Human Resources at each faculty member’s hire date. The AFSA New Faculty Orientation is catered specifically to the faculty with introductions of people and resources that may be of help in their growth and advancement during their time of employment with UTHSC.

This orientation is for ALL new faculty hired after January 1, 2015,  who have NOT YET attended a New Faculty Orientation. A light breakfast will be provided beginning at 7:30 AM. Orientation will begin at 8:00 AM.

Dealing with Recent Changes in NIH Proposals

Date: April 13, 2016 
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (Light refreshments will be served)
Location: Hamilton Eye Institute – Freeman Auditorium (930 Madison, 3rd Floor)

Presenter: Dr. Israel Goldberg

Overview: 

This session is open to all UTHSC faculty, postdocs, administrators, students, and staff. 

For more information regarding Dr. Goldberg please visit: http://www.uthsc.edu/research/research_resources/consulting.php

TLC Reception and Networking Event 

Date: April 14, 2016 
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM 
Location: Madison Plaza – East Dining Area

Overview: 

Join Colleagues and the Teaching and Learning Center Advisory Board, Directorship, and Staff for tea and coffee in the Madison Plaza Dining area. 

Register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TLC-reception-04-14-2016

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/cii/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.