Course Outline
This professional development certificate program is a self-paced course with two instructors of record in academic health education who are available to answer any questions you have about the course material. Lectures for this program are presented in Microsoft PowerPoint. After viewing the lectures participants are required to complete a set of assigned readings and assignments.
All course assignments must be submitted to the course instructors by the indicated due dates. Satisfactory completion of course assignments are required to document completion of each course. Each course is designed to require 24 contact hours. Completion of all three courses and related assignments is necessary for receiving the Health Professionals Certificate in Education.
The certificate is designed to require 72 contact hours to complete and upon completion participants are awarded a certificate. This course has an open enrollment period so you can register at any time.
Course 1: Fundamentals of Teaching and Learning
- Reflect on the relationship between curriculum and instruction.
- Write a teaching philosophy that encompasses your approach to
teaching and learning - Discuss linkages between neurobiology and pedagogy.
- Apply learning style needs to instructional design.
- Construct learning objectives for higher order thinking.
- Assess the alignment between course objectives, learning experiences,
and assessment.
Course 2: Best Practices in Learning and Teaching
- Identify personal teaching practices and educational environments.
- Models of Teaching
- Critical Thinking
- Develop a lesson that employs active learning and utilizes critical thinking
skills and reflective judgment. - Analyze evidence-based resources for course development.
- Assess a current lesson plan for its use of active learning and critical
thinking skill development.
Course 3: Assessment of Teaching and Learning
- Differentiate formative and summative assessment.
- Critique your current course assessments.
- Design an assessment.
- Types of observations and assessments of teaching
- Design a research proposal to evaluate planned changes in your course.
- Conduct a peer observation on a faculty colleague.
Goals
- To engage educators in engaging online learning communities.
- To guide faculty in the development of a teaching philosophy, teaching
efficacy and the use of varied instructional practices. - To write learning objectives that expand the development of critical thinking skills and reflective judgment throughout the curriculum.
- To transition the culture of professional education through blending synchronous and asynchronous active learning, use of technology, varied models of teaching and authentic assessment.
- To develop a teaching portfolio for use in award submissions, promotion,
and tenure.
