Beginning Faculty
Beginning faculty members are defined as having teaching responsibility with little or no formal training in teaching.
COMPETENCY | RESOURCE |
Clearly communicate expectations to learners | Communication Skills |
Select teaching and learning strategies with an understanding of how adults learn | How Adults Learn |
Provide guidance, support and constructive feedback | Giving Effective Feedback |
Create clear, measurable educational objectives | Writing Objectives and Learning Outcomes |
Employ a variety of instructional methods that effectively facilitate learning in different settings (classroom, lab, clinical) | Instructional Methodology |
Prepare students for working on a multidisciplinary patient care team | Interprofessional Teamwork |
Assess learners with valid and reliable methods that are congruent with learning objectives | Student Assessment |
Describe and create effective presentations with the goal to have learners achieve specific objectives | Lecturing Skills |
Plan a way to deliver the essential content | Curricular Design |
Alter mentoring strategy based on generational differences | Understanding Millennial Learners |
Mentor learners with empathy, integrity and professionalism | Mentoring |
Utilize established best practices for tutoring | Tutoring |
Continually improve as an educator by seeking feedback from learners and engaging in opportunities to enhance education skills | Program Evaluation |
Use small group teaching techniques to actively involve students in learning cooperatively | Small Group Learning |
Utilize established best practices for mentoring | Mentoring |
Act as a role model of professionalism | Professionalism |
Prioritize demands on your time | Time Management |
Model a commitment to lifelong learning, continuous professional development and the values and missions of the institution | You're doing it now! |