Assessing Effective Teaching

Teaching, Learning, Assessing: A Guide for Effective Teaching at College and University

Developing Effective Mathematics Teaching: Assessing Content and Pedagogical Knowledge, Student-Centered Teaching, and Student Engagement

The Mathematics Teacher Transformation Institutes (MTTI) program attempts to develop math teacher leaders in part by providing content, inquiry and leadership courses aimed at making them more effective teachers. We assessed progress by observing teacher leaders’ teaching practices, and encouraging them to introduce or extend student‐ centered pedagogy in their classrooms. We found there was li...

Barriers to effective teaching.

Medical school faculty members are charged with the critical responsibility of preparing the future physician and medical scientist workforce. Recent reports suggest that medical school curricula have not kept pace with societal needs and that medical schools are graduating students who lack the knowledge and skills needed to practice effectively in the 21st century. The majority of faculty mem...

Effective Teaching: Flashing Thoughts

As teachers, we all have gone through different teaching environments, have had fairly unique information of strategies and methods of teaching, and in this way have distinctive teaching experiences and perspectives. No two could be indistinguishable whatsoever, and this is certainly due to the different settings, frameworks, systems, techniques and procedures each follows, let alone our differ...

Teaching and assessing surgical competence.

Surgical competence and its assessment is one of the most hotly debated topics engaging the profession. In the current climate of diminishing working hours and shorter training, the surgical profession is having to address the complex issue as to how surgery as a craft specialty should be taught, and how to assess when an individual is competent within their chosen sphere as well as how that co...