Facilitating: In-Class Presentations, Discussions, and Activities

1. Facilitating: In-Class Presentations, Discussions, and Activities Susan M. Stein DHEd, MS, BS Pharm, RPh To Do the VooDoo That You Do So Well

2. Learning Objectives • Identify and analyze effective presentation styles and facilitation formats • Evaluate effective active learning • Describe effective and concise course and syllabus design • Analyze rubric evaluation tools

3. Facilitating Guidelines • Scale: you should ease students into your goal. Give them small items first then grow • Engage students: learn their names and call on them at least once per term • Group work: assign responsibilities and set ground rules to increase effective interaction • Keep it simple: use the time you allotted, don’t go over • Summarize and feedback loops Blah, Blah, Blah with Blinds

4. Facilitating Guidelines • Engage students: fear factor • Scale: ease them in • Group work tip: assign responsibilities, set ground rules • Move around the room: direct attention • Guiding terms: avoid providing answers • Keep it simple: use time allotted • Close the loop: summarize and provide feedback Detail Driven

5. Why are You Here: Teaching Learning “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled” – Plutarch …in any way you can  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa243HGiu_U

6. In The News: Before we get started… • Florida: DEA action at 2 pharmacies http://articles.cnn.com/2012-02-06/us/us_florida-dea-pharmacies_1_pharmacies-pill-mills-drug-enforcement-administration?_s=PM:US • New York: Fraudulent Prescriptions http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/06/02/long-island-pharmacist-arrested-in-phony-prescription-painkillers-probe/ • Oregon: Pharmacy Tech stealing http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/02/pharmacy_tech_accused_of_steal.html Avoid a Jinx…Use Live Links

7. Example Activity: Think-Pair-Share • Identify two concepts that you are passionate about in your field of study • Pair with a partner, share and discuss • Be prepared to discuss with the class Clear as a Spring Day

8. Example Activity: Think-Write-Pair-Share • Using the Lecture Design Map as a guide… • Create one activity for your lecture • Write two assessment questions to directly address this activity • Switch with the person next to you, assess Jolly Good

9. Activities Cafeteria

10. Activity: Project Buzz Group • Divide into groups focused on one of 4 groups: course/syllabus design, teaching and facilitation methods, active learning techniques, rubric design. • Identify what project you will work on • Divide into and discuss with a small group • Present to groups and incorporate input prn • Be prepared to verbally present to entire group

11. Student Push-Back • Patience and Persistence: Don’t give up • Explain: understanding  participation • Form a Faculty Learning Community • Incrementally introduce > engaging activities • Provided guided directions, expectations: exams require thinking not just memorizing • Hold students accountable

12. Challenges in Human Wiring • View the following video and count the following: • Number of times the ball is passed between the white players (with or without bouncing) Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY

13. Activity: Participants Present • Your colleagues will be presenting examples of the following: • Teaching Methods • Active Learning Methods • Rubrics Please provide input for your colleagues: • What do you like about it? • How would you improve it? http://www.random.org/

14. Thumbprint • Reenergize: embrace, renew and feed your passion to teach…we need you!  • Create Your Style of teaching: you must be who you are • Challenge students and yourself: you are both capable of more than you think • Nothing goes well all the time: learn from it and move on

15. Questions, Comments?