Role: Student
Instructor: Olivia
S. Anderson, Ph.D.
Term: Fall 2019
Course Level: Graduate
Course Description: Students will engage in a community of graduate students to explore/prepare for a faculty career, focusing on teaching at a university-level specifically in the public health field. Students will immerse in literature, discussion, and workshops on state-of-the-art pedagogical techniques. Course tangibles include: teaching philosophy statement, course syllabus, and teaching demonstration.
Course Components: This course met weekly, in-person for discussion-based lessons on effective teaching strategies for public health classes. Course competencies were evaluated through participation in class sessions, including providing feedback to peers on in-class activities and multi-week projects. Assessments also included a teaching philosophy, course syllabus, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) presentation, mid-term reflection, teaching method speed talk, and teaching demonstration.
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