Advancing and Promoting Quality Teaching

1. A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School Advancing and Promoting Quality Teaching Richard M. Schwartzstein, MD Director, Education Scholarship Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medicine and Medical Education Education is at the heart of patient care.

2. Goals Today…. To provide insights into the following questions: • How do we support faculty to be better teachers? • How do we provide faculty with incentives to improve teaching?

3. Improving Teaching https://blogs.dxc.technology/2016/07/25/can-replicating-best-practices-stifle-disruptive-innovation/ https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/t/teaching_tips.asp

4. If we don’t improve, we get worse…Ericsson, Deliberative Practice

5. Coaching and Peer Observation

6. Observing peers is a GREAT opportunity • Improve one’s own teaching skills • Collaborate with colleagues • Teach and train across disciplines • Learn about pedagogy • Practice giving feedback • Document teaching activities • Acquire new skills, scripts and behaviors • Demonstrate faculty commitment to teaching and learning

7. Everyone can learn to become an effective Peer Observer

8. Peer Observation of Teaching at HMS

9. The Case-Based Collaborative Learning Peer Observation Worksheet and Compendium: An Evaluation Tool for Flipped Classroom Facilitators Susan Frankl, MD,* Lori Newman, MEd,* Susan Burgin, MD, Ayse Atasoylu, MD, Laurie Fishman, MD, Holly Gooding, MD, Daniel Kamin, MD, Alberto Puig, MD, Ann-Marie Thomas, MD, David Cohen, MD, and Richard Schwartzstein, MD Frankl S, Newman L, Burgin S, et al. MedEdPORTAL Publications. 2017;13:10583. https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10583 Published: May 17, 2017

10. Response of Faculty to Peer Observation • Seventy-three percent of faculty rated the worksheet and compendium as extremely helpful or helpful in identifying new teaching techniques. • Moreover, 90% found the CBCL peer observation and debriefing to be extremely helpful or helpful, and 90% were extremely likely or likely to incorporate peer suggestions in future teaching sessions.

11. Many ways to design programs for Peer Observation of Teaching • Peer-review Model • Discussion about teaching • Self- & Mutual reflection on best practices • Developmental Model • Demonstrate competency, quality • Improve teaching • Evaluation Model • Identify under-performance • Appraisal, promotion and probation Models as described by Gosling D, www.heacadamy.co.uk

12. Summary • We can all get better as teachers • Without deliberative practice, we are likely to get worse with time • Peer observation is an excellent way to improve your teaching and that of your colleagues • Can be used for formative or summative assessment (the latter requires more rigorous procedures and training of observers)