TEACHING ROUNDS
2020 Online Externship Teaching Rounds
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About Online Externship Teaching Rounds
Over the course of the past few years, the Teaching Methodologies Committee of the AALS Clinical Section has conducted online teaching rounds with clinicians whose primary responsibilities include either supervising students in an in-house clinic or supervising students and field supervisors in an externship course.
Teaching rounds accomplish two important goals: (1) To build a learning community through which a group of faculty can come together and increase faculty collaboration around a shared enterprise of teaching, and (2) To improve our teaching. During rounds sessions, participating clinicians talk about events in their classrooms/supervisions, present “problems” to be probed and re-conceptualized, get ideas about what and how to teach, as well as innovative assessment tools. Clinicians reflect with supportive colleagues about the relationship between what they have done and their teaching goals, and plan with the benefit of the insights of others. Rounds conversations explore assumptions embedded in teaching decisions as well as naming potential strategies for improving teaching.
Many professions use rounds-type conversations as a way to locate learning in the on-going professional experiences of the group members. Those attending past rounds conversations have found them useful in thinking about concrete solutions and broader themes in their teaching. Participants collectively choose topics on issues of clinical teaching and will engage with each other, in a structured conversation, about these teaching issues.
Through the use of online technology the committee seeks to provide this opportunity especially to clinicians who do not reside in places where there is a concentration of clinical or externship programs.
2015 Online Externship Teaching Rounds
Key Facilitator: Alex Scherr, University of Georgia
AALS Clinical Teaching Methodologies Facilitator: Kendall Kerew, Georgia State
Participants:
Jodi Balsam, Brooklyn
Erma Bonadero, Houston
Chrissy Brown, Loyola New Orleans
Eden Harrington, Texas
D'lorah Hughes, Wayne State
Becky Rosenfeld, Cardozo
Avis Sanders, American
Amy Sankaran, Michigan
Megan Seiner, South Carolina
Janine Zanin, UNC
Key Facilitator: Liz Ford, Seattle
AALS Clinical Teaching Methodologies Facilitator: Kendall Kerew, Georgia State
Participants:
Laurie Barron, Roger Williams
Barbara Gotthelf, Rutgers (Camden)
Karla Hall, Cincinnati
Jessica Heywood, University of Georgia
Avis Sanders, American
Julie Schaffer, Gonzaga
Sue Schecter, Berkeley
Beth Schwartz, Fordham
Key Facilitator: Alex Scherr, University of Georgia
AALS Clinical Teaching Methodologies Facilitator: Kendall Kerew, Georgia State
Participants:
Kinda Abdus-Saboor, Georgia State
Liz Ryan Cole, Vermont
Sally Gertz, Florida State
Carole Heyward, Cleveland- Marshall
Trish Hodney, North Dakota
Marjorie Silver, Touro
June Tai, Iowa