The Exceptional Teacher Initiative
| Autor: | George F. Blackall, Terry Wolpaw, Dan Shapiro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Medical Narration Students Medical 020205 medical informatics Teaching media_common.quotation_subject 02 engineering and technology General Medicine Pennsylvania Organizational Culture Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Initiative - finding Pedagogy 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans Conversation Narrative 030212 general & internal medicine Psychology Schools Medical Education Medical Undergraduate Program Evaluation media_common |
| Zdroj: | Academic Medicine. 94:992-995 |
| ISSN: | 1040-2446 |
| Popis: | PROBLEM The Penn State College of Medicine (PSCOM) faced escalating reports of learner mistreatment in 2013-2017. As systems were implemented to gather and respond to student reports, faculty members expressed concern that these were creating a culture that focused on negative behaviors to the exclusion of acknowledging outstanding teaching that was also occurring. APPROACH The Exceptional Teacher Initiative was introduced in August 2017 to attempt to shift the institutional conversation around learner mistreatment by balancing reports of mistreatment with reports highlighting examples of excellent teaching considered in-line with organizational values. The primary goals of the program were to make it easy for students to submit narratives describing outstanding teaching experiences and to capture the nuances of what the teacher did that were notable to the student. Students were invited to write about teachers who challenged and changed them. Narratives were sent to the named teachers and their educational and clinical leaders. OUTCOMES Over the first 12 months of the Exceptional Teacher Initiative, learners submitted 553 narratives naming 253 different individuals across 37 departments. Faculty members and students expressed appreciation for this effort to highlight the positive. A monthly Exceptional Moments in Teaching feature was introduced in 2018, in which a named educator is featured prominently across the PSCOM. NEXT STEPS Future plans include examining the impact of being named an exceptional teacher, ways exceptional teachers create respectful teaching interactions, and common threads within student narratives that illuminate specific techniques, behaviors, and attitudes that create exceptional teaching experiences. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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