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Launched in 2008 to meet strategic goals in strengthening teaching programs
- Guiding principle: “Teaching is
Job One”
Mission: Provide the
resources, programs & leadership that support the highest quality of
professionalism & instruction within the various educational missions of the
college.
Participation: Built around voluntary & committed participation of core members, with
individual sessions open to all faculty & staff. Modeled as a community of practice with the approach of a teaching academy. Goal: Ongoing professional development
toward mastery, as opposed to recognition or exclusion. Participants point to the program as
particularly useful in improving their teaching methods, materials or
communication; their ability to assess students; and the learning environment
in their classroom. The program has been highlighted in recruitment of new
faculty members and is gaining attention as a model for other institutions.
November 2015: Master Teacher Program awarded the UT Gamma Sigma Delta chapter's Team Award for its outstanding contribution to teaching in agriculture and related disciplines.
| Date |
Topic |
Speaker(s) |
May 21
|
Innovations in Remote Learning at UTCVM |
Facilitator: Dr. Mee-Ja Sula |
Jun. 18
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"Emergency Remote" to Online Learning: Taking it Up a Notch and Taking it Forward
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Dr. Sherry Clouser (Univ of Georgia CVM) & Jesse Watson (NC State CVM) |
Jun. 25
|
Open-Book Exam Success |
Misty Bailey (UTCVM Academic Affairs) & Holley Linkous (UT Educational Psychology) |
Jul. 16
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Making Zoom Interactive |
Royal Paschall & Misty Bailey (UTCVM Academic Affairs) |
Aug. 20
(Zoom) |
Early Clinical Experience in Health Professions Curricula: Best Practices & Impact |
Dr. India Lane & Guest |
Sept. TBD
9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
(TBD) |
SPECIAL WORKSHOP
Communicating Across Generations: Working with Millennial and Gen Z Students and Colleagues |
Elise Lacher (Strategic Veterinary Consulting) & Dr. Robert Trimble (Veterinary Entrepreneurship Academy), co-sponsored by SAVMA |
Oct. 15
(TBD) |
Mentoring Veterinary Students for Today's World |
TBD |
Nov. 19
(TBD) |
Survey Research in Education: Doing it Well |
Misty Bailey, UTCVM Academic Affairs |
Education Funding Opportunities
UT CITE Grants
https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/grants/cite-grant/
Focus: Work with the UT Office of Information Technology on course redesign, instructional technologies, and research strategies to improve student learning outcomes. ($1,000 to $5,000)
UT
Faculty Fellow Program
Focus: Advancing exemplary teaching and enriching the experience of students by implementing projects that enhance their department's use of instructional technologies.
UT Faculty First Grant
Focus: Instructional development for effective uses of technology in teaching. Long-term partnership between a faculty member and OIT to develop digital instructional materials or to reshape an entire course.
UT Teaching Support Awards Program
Focus: Providing funding to instructional faculty members, graduate student teachers, and staff members to help them enhance the learning experience for students that take their courses. Supporting participation in teaching-focused professional development opportunities such as conferences and related educational experiences. Enriching and expanding the use of effective teaching strategies across the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. $500 to $5,000 each. preference will be given to new projects. Funding is for a 2-year period
IAMSE Educational Scholarship and Curriculum Innovation Grants
Focus: Projects designed to (1) systematically collect and analyze data related to
medical education, which may employ a variety of methods, but seek to
produce generalizable information for dissemination, or (2) designed for the general enrichment of teaching and learning that go
beyond normal expectations of a faculty member, including but not
limited to advances in pedagogy, technology, content development, or
professional development. Limited to IAMSE members.
Ford Foundation
Focus: Reducing poverty and injustice; promoting democratic values; and advancing human knowledge, creativity and achievement.
NIH R25
Focus: Promoting an appreciation for and interest in biomedical research, provide additional training in specific areas, and/or to develop ways to disseminate scientific discovery into public health and community applications.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation