This is a course where students put theory into practice, working in collaboration with a selected faculty mentor in one of the following formats: large lecture, small lecture or seminar, or proposing a new course. Students may enroll in this course multiple times for different mentored experiences.
Prerequisites:
Teaching in the Biomedical Sciences (GMS AN 804).
Consent of mentor and approval of course Teaching Oversight Committee
Credits:
Variable (1, 2 or 3 depending on the mentored teaching experience)
New Course:
To be offered Fall 2004 and every semester thereafter.
To help graduate students develop skills as educators and to prepare them for future teaching responsibilities by providing professional expertise in a broad range of teaching experiences.
The value of the proposed mentored experiences rests principally in the close collaborative work between the graduate student and an experienced and successful teacher.
The faculty who serve as mentors to students enrolled in the Teaching Practicum will include experienced and effective teachers of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology. These faculty include, but are not limited to, Drs. Todd Hoagland, Richard Hoyt, Mark Moss, Douglas Rosene, Julie Sandell, Deborah Vaughan and Lawrence Zoller. Faculty from other Departments of the Medical Center who desire to serve as mentors may do so with the approval of the course Oversight Committee. Such faculty might include Drs. Paul O'Bryan, James Head, Stephanie Oberhaus, Herbert Kagan, and Carol Walsh, all faculty who have been recognized for their teaching excellence.
The Vesalius Module is a cluster of courses based in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology that is designed to provide training and experience to graduate students who are interested in a career in teaching. The cluster of courses that constitute the module includes a basic theory course (Teaching in Biomedical Sciences, GMS AN 804) that is designed to be followed by a variety of mentored experiences described in this proposal. The mentored teaching experiences allow the enrolled student to apply the theories learned in the classroom to real teaching activities. Any student who accumulates a minimum of 6 credit hours from courses in this cluster is considered to be participating in the Vesalius Module.
Students who enroll in this Teaching Practicum course do not need to be part of the Vesalius Module in order to participate. Since all graduate students can benefit from developing their teaching skills to some extent, this course holds benefits for all graduate students.
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