Tuesday, August 4 - Friday, August 7, 9:00am – 11:00am
Presenters: Kelley M. Skeff, MD, PhD and Georgette A. Stratos, PhD, Center Co-Directors, Stanford Faculty Development Center for Medical Teachers Stanford University School of Medicine
I: Oral Communication
Summer Session B: Monday-Wednesday, July 13-15 & Friday, July 17, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Attendance is required ALL 4 Days
This course focuses on helping students improve their oral communication skills for academic and daily life. Emphasis is on increasing confidence and fluency through realistic activities both in and out of class covering pronunciation, idiom and slang usage, active listening skills, and conversation strategies.
Course topics:
The Office of Graduate Education and the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs invites you to an evening of virtual cooking!
Join Michelle Greenebaum of Together In The Kitchen in making a Chopped Mediterranean Salad and Baked Apple Crisp. Improve those chopping skills while also creating some delicious dishes from pantry-friendly ingredients. This class will focus on incorporating the ingredients you already have at home and getting creative!
There is a small amount of prep work needed before this class begins.
This workshop will empower instructors with tools to foster student participation in their classes. To enable you to design class sessions that keep students engaged, participants will be introduced to strategies for incorporating active learning and student participation into all classes. Throughout, we will highlight ways to make your teaching inclusive and to actively engage students to improve their learning outcomes.
Goals:
Friday, July 10, 1:00pm-4:00pm, via Zoom
This workshop sets the foundation for instructors to develop assessment activities that align with course or module learning goals. So you can develop a framework to assess students’ progress, participants will be introduced to formative assessment and will learn multiple strategies to assess student performance. Participants will have practical training in aligning assignments and assessments with learning goals. Throughout, we will highlight ways to make your teaching inclusive and to actively engage students to improve their learning outcomes.
Goals:
During these trying months, many of us have experienced a wildly fluctuating spectrum of well-being, as we aim for scholarly excellence under quarantine circumstances. Within an hour, or a day, or a week, we find ourselves vacillating, sometimes feeling like we are barely coping, then a sense of adapting pretty well, and in super-power moments, we are thriving.
The Office of Graduate Education and the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs invites you to an evening of virtual cooking!
During this class you’ll learn how to prepare sautéed vegetables! Chef Sandra Lewis will lead a live demo, where you’ll have a chance to ask questions, receive feedback and interact with fellow participants.
You’ll leave with expertly sautéed sides that can be perfectly paired with your meal of choice!
What are the standards of teaching and research behavior in various disciplines and what are some examples of situations that present no simple “right or wrong” answers?
Guest Speakers: Dr. Harry Greenberg, Professor, Microbiology & Immunology and Gastroenterology & Hepatology and Dr. Sharad Goel, Assistant Professor, Management Science & Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science and Law
