Symposium: Improving Learning Environments
Schedule of Events:
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019
12:00 - 1:00 pm - Plenary 1: Improving Learning Environments: How should we think about them? Where do we begin?
- Identify the key components of the learning environment
- Describe evidence-based strategies used to improve the learning environment
- Articulate future directions for scholarship and practice to improve learning environments in the health professions
Learning environment refers to the social interactions, organizational culture and structures, and physical and virtual spaces that surround and shape the learners’ experiences, perceptions and learning.
Participants will be able to:
Material: The Josiah Macy jr Foundation website. Publications. Improving the learning environment
Location: ABDF 1002 or view livestream
1:00 - 2:00 pm - Plenary 2: Exemplary Learning Environments: A Vision
- List characteristics of complex adaptive systems
- Describe learning environments through the lens of complex adaptive systems
- Articulate a vision for an optimal learning environment
Learning environments in the health professions can be viewed as complex adaptive systems. Using the principles of complex adaptive systems we can identify characteristics of exemplary learning environments.
Participants will be able to:
Location: ABDF 1002 or view livestream
2:00 - 2:30 pm - Break
2:30-4:30 pm - Workshop 1: Optimizing Learning Environments: Creating Vision and Actionable Plans (individual and institutional)
- Articulate a vision for an optimal learning environment in your setting
- Select a strategy to enhance the learning for everyone in your setting
- Develop a plan to implement the strategy with timeline, resources and stakeholders
Handouts - Workshop 1: Optimizing Learning Environments
Location: ABDF 1002 or view livestream
4:30 - 8:00 pm - Reception and Social - CANCELLED
Thursday, March 14, 2019
9:00 - 10:00 am - Plenary 3: Exemplary learning environments: Integration of diverse perspectives to achieve success.
The organizational psychology literature proposes that the term diversity represents three distinct constructs:
- Variety: differences in information, knowledge or experience among members of an organization or group
- Separation: differences in position or opinion among members
- Disparity: differences in concentration of valued social assets or resources.
Material: Bias or microaggression video example
Location: ABDF 1002 or view livestream
10:00 am - 12:00 pm - Workshop 2: Did you really mean to say that? Debriefing after a professionalism lapse: Tips for teachers
- Discuss the range of behaviors that constitute a lapse in professionalism
- Identify the potential causes of a professionalism lapse
- Demonstrate a six-step process to address professionalism lapses after the behavior occurred
Handouts - Workshop 2: Debriefing Professional Lapse
Location: ABDF 1002 of view livestream
12:00 - 1:00 pm - Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 pm - Workshop 3: Is it hot in Here? Creating a Positive Learning Climate in My Teaching.
- Define learning climate
- Describe how teachers create a positive or negative learning climate
- Practice key strategies for creating a positive learning climate
Participants will:
Handouts - Workshop 3: Creating Positive Learning Climate
Location: ABDF 1002 or view livestream
3:00 - 3:30 pm - Break
3:30 - 4:30 pm -Reflections and concluding remarks
Location: ABDF 1002 or view livestream
Abbreviated Schedule of Events:
All session will be located in ABDF 1002
12:00 - 1:00 pm - Plenary 1: Improving Learning Environments: How should we think about them? Where do we begin?
1:00 - 2:00 pm - Plenary 2: Exemplary Learning Environments: A Vision
2:00 - 2:30 pm - Break
2:30-4:30 pm - Workshop 1: Optimizing Learning Environments: Creating Vision and Actionable Plans (individual and institutional)
Thursday, March 14, 2019
9:00 - 10:00 am - Plenary 3: Exemplary learning environments: Integration of diverse perspectives to achieve success.
10:00 am - 12:00 pm - Workshop 2: Did you really mean to say that? Debriefing after a professionalism lapse: Tips for teachers
12:00 - 1:00 pm - Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 pm - Workshop 3: Is it Hot in Here? Creating a Positive Learning Climate in My Teaching.
3:00 - 3:30 pm - Break
3:30 - 4:30 pm -Reflections and concluding remarks