Workshop: Improve Your Teaching with Evidence

Presentation Description / Summary: Many of us find ourselves in teaching roles despite never having been trained how to teach. If you’ve ever wondered if you could apply-evidence based “medicine” to your teaching, this is the workshop for you! It turns out there is a lot of evidence to support some teaching strategies over others and this workshop will review the science while also giving ideas for practical examples to incorporate into your teaching immediately. Over the course of this workshop, you will learn about some of the most important and relevant research that gives us insight into how we learn, and therefore how we can be more effective teachers. We will discuss ways to improve teaching in a clinical situation, as well as how to improve your teaching in a more traditional or classroom setting. We will focus on four main areas related to teaching and learning: 1) working memory & long-term memory; 2) retrieval practice; 3) active learning; 4) instructional strategies. I addition, you will learn about common education myths and why you should forget about them.