Teaching Skills (Scroll down for Learning links)

• Introduction to Team Learning
  This web site describes team learning as bringing "together theoretically-based and empirically-grounded strategies for ensuring the effectiveness of autonomous small-groups working independently in classes with high student-faculty ratios (e.g., up to 200:1) without losing benefits of faculty-led small groups with lower ratios (e.g., 7:1)." This web site was created by the Office of Curriculum at Baylor College Of Medicine.
  For more information: http://www.bcm.edu/fac-ed/team_learning/intro_to_team_learning.html
   
• Problem Based Learning
  This web site provides various resources for problem-based learning, including a handbook, Power Point introduction to problem-based learning, and Internet resources. This web site was created by the School of Medicine at Queen's University.
  For more information: http://www.pbli.org/pbl/pbl.htm
   
• Small Group Facilitation Skills and Small Group Learning
  This web site provides links to useful information for facilitating and small group learning. The web site is maintained by the FSU Faculty Development division.
  For more information:
  http://www.med.fsu.edu/education/FacultyDevelopment/small group skills.asp
   
• The One Minute Preceptor: 5 Microskills for One-On-One Teaching
  This website consists of a learning module for learning the theory and applications of the One-Minute Preceptor model of clinical teaching. The learning module contains intermittent online review questions as well as an online posttest.
  For more information: http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/monographs/microskills.htm
   
• The Residents' Teaching Skills Web Site
  This web site provides an inventory for learning your teaching style, videos showing different teaching styles, and links to teaching materials from other institutions. The web site is maintained by the University of California College of Medicine.
  For more information: http://www.ucimc.netouch.com/
   
• Teaching Skills
  This web site describes a set of teaching strategies, including active learning, questioning strategies, and role modeling. The web site was created by the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Ohio University, and is primarily intended to inform new preceptors.
  For more information: http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/teaching_skills.htm
   
• Instructional Tips
  This web site provides a description of various instructional tips related to Media Selection & Design, Effective Lectures, Observation & Evaluation, Effective Questioning, Small Group Teaching, Effective Teaching, Test Item Writing, Giving Feedback, Writing Effectively, and Instructional Design. This web site was created by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. This site was developed by and is maintained by the Office of Curriculum Development and Management at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
  For more information: http://www.uab.edu/uasomume/cdm/tips.htm

Learning

• Introduction to Theories of Learning
  This web site provides an overview descriptions of three basic learning theories: behaviorism, cognitive constructivism, and social constructivism, in terms of how they relate to knowledge, learning, motivation, adn instruction. A drop-down box also provides more in-depth information on these topics. The web site was created by the Graduate Student Instructor Teaching and Resource Center at the University of California Berkeley.
  For more information: http://gsi.berkeley.edu/resources/learning/
   
• Theory Into Practice (TIP): The Learning Theories
  This web site contains descriptions of over 50 theories relevant to human learning and instruction. Each description includes the following sections: overview, scope/application, example, principles, and references. The web site is linked by other universities and was created by Greg Kearsley.
  For more information: http://tip.psychology.org/theories.html
   
• Evaluation of Teaching and Learning Strategies
  This web site contains a paper that discusses the problems inherent in applying traditional experimental design techniques to advances in educational practice. The paper was written by Sybille K Lechner BDS, MDS FRACDS, FPFA, FICD.
  For more information: http://www.med-ed-online.org/f0000024.htm
   
• Active Learning
  This web site provides links to various resources on active learning within the medical education context. Links to resources include descriptions, strategies, overcoming barriers, adn applications to the lab and clinic. This web site was created by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
  For more information: http://cte.umdnj.edu/active_learning/active_general.cfm