Knowledge Gap: The purpose of this activity is to educate healthcare providers with the most up-to-date information on Effective Facilitation of Large Group/Classroom Learning. |
Target Audience The target audience includes all healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals who would like to learn about Effective Facilitation of Large Group/Classroom Learning and how it pertains to their respective profession. |
Release and Expiration Dates 7/31/2017 - 6/11/2023 |
Objectives 1. Summarize key approaches to effectively facilitating a large group project 2. List ways facilitator skills assist with project outcomes 3. Identify key ways group projects get derailed and strategize ways to prevent them |
References:· - Bunker, Barbara, and Billie Albian, Large Group Interventions, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1997.
- Hart, Lois, Faultless Facilitation, 2nd Edition, HRD Press, Amherst, MA, 1996.
- Feito, J. (2007) Allowing Not-Knowing in a Dialogic Discussion The International Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, accessed July 2008. http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/v1n1/feito/ij_feito.htm
- Janison, Justin, The Complete Guide to Facilitation, HRD Press, Amherst, MA, 1997.
- Handelsman, J., Miller, S., & Pfund, C. (2006) Scientific Teaching: Diversity, Assessment, Active Learning (New York: W.H. Freeman & Co.)
- Steinert, Y. (2004) Student perceptions of effective small group teaching. Medical Education, 38:286-293.
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Biographical Info Wendy L. Ward, Ph.D., ABPP is a Professor and Director of Interprofessional Faculty Development at UAMS. She provides faculty development offerings across the five UAMS Colleges and the Graduate School on topics related to interprofessional collaboration such as how to build core competency skill domains for integrated, collaborative clinical care and how to teach interprofessional learners to build these skills. Further, she coordinates an integrated behavioral health service for a large children’s hospital, and outpatient psychology services integrated within 32 pediatric subspecialty clinics. She also serves her institution as Associate Director of the Interprofessional Faculty Wellness program. |
Speaker Disclosures: The planners, speakers, moderators, peer reviewers and /or panelists of this CE activity have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose. |
Planners: Kim Miller Susan Smith Dodson Mark Jansen Speaker: Wendy Ward, PhD, ABPP | Peer Reviewers: Kim Miller, MCHES |
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