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Scholarship & Teaching Excellence Program (STEP)

STEP provides foundational faculty development in the area of teaching. Faculty can complete advanced program(s) to be certified in areas applicable to their teaching responsibilities including Didactic and Interprofessional. In addition, faculty may choose the development opportunity in the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning/Educational Research.

How to complete STEP

Step 1: Complete the STEP Foundations for Teaching Course

  • The STEP Foundations course focuses on Didactic teaching
    • STEP advanced courses include the Interdisciplinary Teaching Foundations course and the Interdisciplinary Teaching Mastery course. See STEP Interdisciplinary Courses
  • The STEP Foundations course includes a series of 15 on-demand teaching skill modules, accessed through the Canvas LMS, and 8 monthly synchronous discussions 
    • Program participants will be placed into a Foundations of Teaching Certificate cohort that will start 30 days after the course application has opened
      • Participants will be divided into teams of 3-4 and will meet with their team to peer review each other's revised teaching materials and provide feedback using a rubric
      • Participants will complete 1-2 specified modules each month
        • Online, asynchronously accessible STEP Foundations Modules include videos, pre/post tests, and revision of teaching materials

Step 2: Complete the STEP peer review process

After completing the STEP Foundations modules for didactic teaching, participants will meet with a peer reviewer who will:

  • review their teaching materials, 
  • observe a 1-hour didactic teaching session (lecture or seminar), 
  • provide feedback, 
  • and provide a teaching session debrief with goal setting

 

Step 3: Revise your teaching materials

After peer reviews are completed, participants are encouraged to make updates or revisions based on the reflection, peer review, and feedback process.

Participants are encouraged to report participation in, and completion of each STEP component. Note lessons learned for application to teaching best practices in the faculty annual report.

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