Moving the Needle

Host Erin Hagar speaks with participants in UMB's Costa Rica Faculty Development Institute training about the importance of bringing a globalized perspective into classrooms.

Co-host Scott Riley speaks with Dr. Violet Kulo, Associate Professor and Program Director for the MS in Health Professions Education (HPE) program in UMB's Graduate School and Dr. Eric Belt, Senior Academic Innovation Specialist at UMB's Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, about the ways teaching has evolved over time and about the factors that lead to those changes.

Cohost Scott Riley speaks with Jim Kutcher, Program Director of the M.S. in Social Entrepreneurship in the Graduate School discusses his hybrid approach to teaching, using experiential learning and social innovation.

Dr. Tiffany Buckley, faculty member of UMB's School of Pharmacy talks with host Erin Hagar about how she approached the challenge of having an exceptionally diverse set of learners when launching the Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics program at UMB.

Dr. Stephen Mang, Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine and recipient of the Distinguished Early-Career Faculty Award for Teaching, discusses his approach to inquiry based labs with co-host Scott J Riley II.

Host Erin Hagar speaks with Dr. Glenn Canares, a pediatric dentist at UMB's School of Dentistry, about the culture of academic departments. How do these cultures come to be? How are they formed and fostered and maintained over time? What impact does a culture have on individual faculty members and, how does the culture trickle down and impact the student experience?

The question of how might expert clinicians also become expert educators to prepare the next generation of health care providers is explored. Host, Erin Hagar, is joined by faculty from UMB's HPE program, Dr. Christina Cestone, Dr. Violet Kulo, and Dr. Karen Gordes.

Host Erin Hagar talks with Martha Ertman, the Carole & Hanan Sibel Research Professor at the University of Maryland Carey Law School. They discuss law education, how it’s different from other disciplines, and how it’s evolving. Martha also talks about changes she's made to her teaching, based on new understandings and epiphanies she’s had about today’s generation of learners.

Host, Scott Riley, speaks with Dr. Tracy Irish, Clinical Assistant Professor in the STEM Master of Arts in Education program at UMBC and Jennifer Aumiller, Director of the Career and Professional Development Office of Postdoctoral Scholars in the School of Medicine at UMB about the benefits and effects of developing graduate students’ ability to teach in and outside of the classroom.

Erin speaks with Deborah Levi, Director of Educational Support and Disabilities Services (ESDS) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore about making courses as accessible as possible to the entire student body.

Dr. Donna Parker and Dr. Christina Cestone co-chairs of LEAPS (Leaders in Education: Academy of Presidential Scholars), discuss this new initiative designed to support current faculty members at UMB by recognizing and rewarding educational scholarship and innovation, as well as help advance the career paths for UMB educators.

Dr. Scott J. Riley from UMB's School of Pharmacy discusses the roles of research and teaching in the education and training of graduate students.

In this conversation, Dr. Cynthia Cravens, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, discusses the ways in which the course syllabus can be an invitation into a relationship with a faculty member, a course, or an entire discipline. The article that they discuss can be found here: https://journals.shareok.org/jcscore/article/view/87 Taylor, S. D., Veri, M. J., Eliason, M., Hermoso, J. C. R., Bolter, N. D., & Van Olphen, J. E. (2019). The Social Justice Syllabus Design Tool: A First Step in Doing Social Justice Pedagogy. JCSCORE, 5(2), 132-166.

UMB's Dr. Michelle Pearce, a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Graduate School, discusses her coaching program for UMB faculty along with a faculty/coach pair who worked together in the program last year. Lara Zauner, is a certified professional development coach and Dr. Melissa Motta is a professor in the Dept of Neurology and course director for the Neurology Clerkship at the School of Medicine.

Kevin Engler, MS, Eric Belt, EdD, and Becky Menendez, MEd join host Erin Hagar, to discuss the role of the instructional designer in higher education.

Dr. Lori Edwards Assistant Professor in UMB's School of Nursing discusses the evolution of community engagement and service learning in higher education.

Dr. Isabell May and James Wright, MFA from University of Maryland, Baltimore's Writing Center explore the current scholarship in writing studies that addresses linguistic diversity and standards of English.

Dr. Christina Cestone and Dr. Violet Kulo of UMB's Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning discuss the power of Team-Based Learning.

Beth Budny-Buckley, just completed her first year, as a faculty member in the Physician Assistant studies program at Frostburg State University. In this episode she speaks with us about the transition from practicing medicine to teaching it, as well as adapting her courses for online during COVID.

Dr. Patel will share the reasons for curriculum redesign at UMB School of Medicine and some lessons he’s learned during its implementation.

In addition to her faculty appointment at UMB School of Medicine, Dr. Sandra Quezada is the Course Director for the Medical Spanish elective. Dr. Quezada talks about how her medical Spanish course integrates and reinforces the rest of the medical school curriculum, how teaching language overlaps with culture, and cultural humility and why mistakes are a crucial part of the learning process.

This episode's topics include a discussion about the universal principles of good teaching, how teaching and leading overlap and how to recognize and reward good teaching at a Research I institution.

We explore the realm of teaching and learning from the student perspective in this episode. Three graduate students share their experiences in the online classroom, explain what teaching techniques have worked best for them and offer their insights on the future of online learning.

Dr. Faerron Guzman talks about designing on the ground experiences for students in Global Health, the importance of having a democratic perspective in teaching, and what he's learned by being a student and a faculty member in different countries.

Dr. Corey Shdaimah, is the Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor for Social Justice from UMB's SSW. We talk about how the Covid pandemic provided Corey an opportunity to rethink her qualitative research methods class from the inside out, as well as the importance of knowing your students and and the crucial support a faculty member can receive by participating in a communities of practice.