Class Session 1

1. Instructional
Strategies for
Teaching in Medicine
January 29, 2018
ADLT 672

2. Agenda
•Welcome and Introductions
•Expectations for the course
•A guided inquiry (POGIL) exercise in
models for teaching
•An introduction to our course blog
(https://rampages.us/adlt672spr18/)
•Assignment overview for next week

3. For tonight, organize
yourselves by years of teaching
experience
• Form a single line based on number of
years of teaching experience
• Count off by four – 1, 2, 3,4
• Like numbers sit at a table for a needs
assessment and our POGIL exercise on
teaching models

4. Introduce yourself to others at the table
We will use Poll Everywhere – Polling Strategies in
Real Time
If you are willing, get out your smart phone,
laptop, or iPad to participate

5. How Poll Everywhere Works
Website
• Audience can respond at PollEv.com/timevcu, as
long as the poll is active.
Text messaging
• Audience texts to 37607 with a message line that
reads TIMEVCU to join the session. You will get a
response that you have joined the site. Then
text a response to each question.

6. An
Introduction to
Perspectives
on Teaching
A modified
“POGIL”
Exercise –
Process-
Oriented
Guided
Inquiry
Learning
Work in
groups of 3
or 4
Assign roles
in your team:
leader,
recorder,
reporter,
and, if
needed,
discussion
facilitator
How it works:
10-15 minutes
for each of the
5 models
Then discuss
answers to
questions
Recorder
records!
Give a name
to each
model
Report out

7. Assignments
Why Teach? Paper DUE NEXT WEEK, FEB 5
Short presentation on instructional strategies topic (3
slides, 15-20 minutes, pairs)
Peer Feedback on a Teaching Encounter
Instructional Strategy Design - accept blog invitation
Final, end of course reflective blog post and blog
comments

8. After class,
• Why Teach? Paper due next week
• Accept the blog invitation from VCU
Rampages
• Spend some time perusing the course blog
site, https://rampages.us/adlt672fall18/
• Note that your weekly reading /
preparation assignments are updated on
the blog!

9. Why Teach?
Why have you chosen to teach as part of your professional career?
What predisposing beliefs and values do you hold that influence you
as a teacher?
Use these questions to guide you in this informal reflection
• Describe your current views about teaching and learning.
• Describe the influences that have contributed to your view of teaching
– mentors, role models, family members who were teachers, others?
• What does “good teaching” mean to you?
• If you are interested in an academic career or have already made
academic medicine your career choice, WHY?

10. Also, for next week:
• Check out the Teaching Perspectives Inventory
on the Web and take the inventory if you want to
learn more about your own approach to
teaching
• www.TeachingPerspectives.com
• Bring the printout to share to class next week
• Review one of several papers written about
Teaching Perspectives by Dr. Daniel Pratt and
colleagues (posted on the blog)