260.708.01
Evidence-Based Teaching in the Biomedical and Health Sciences – Practice

Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
In-person
Class Time(s)
Friday, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Gundula Bosch
Emma Camacho
Heather Lamb
Contact Name
Gundula Bosch
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite

Preferred: PH.260.707 or PH.350.750 or Preparing Future Faculty Teaching Academy (PFFTA) or equivalent other preparation in agreement with the instructors.

Description
Do you enjoy teaching? Would you like to become more effective at it? Would you like to gain real classroom experience with mentor feedback? Do you want to explore if a career that involves teaching is for you? Then join us for our interdisciplinary, evidence-based teaching practice course! .
Provides students interested in gaining hands-on teaching experience with opportunities to plan and develop classroom materials on self-selected topics and deliver them in an interdisciplinary classroom setting, mentored by professional educators. Explores evidence-based instructional and assessment strategies to meet identified learner needs in the life and health sciences. Introduces students to a growing community of educational practitioners and scholars across the JHBSPH departments and JH divisions.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Apply the literature on adult learning theory to real-life, educational situations
  2. Appraise and revise self-designed lesson plans and assessment strategies with classmates and mentors from other disciplines.
  3. Practice teaching and assessment plans in the classroom and assess learning outcomes.
  4. Critique classmates’ teaching and make recommendations for improvement.
  5. Evaluate their own teaching based on learner assessments as well as mentor and peer feedback.
  6. Formulate an action plan to enhance existing strengths andwork areas for improvement in their teaching.
  7. Implement and sustain their knowledge and skills in evidence-based teaching by joining a continuous, cross-disciplinary community of practice.
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
  • 35% Project(s)
  • 10% Written Assignment(s)
  • 35% In-class Exercises
  • 20% Peer-feedback
Enrollment Restriction
graduate students or postdoctoral fellows; instructor consent
Instructor Consent
Consent required for all students
Consent Note
Students interested in taking this course need to have either successfully completed 260.707 or discuss with the instructor if equivalent preparation, e.g. through appropriate sections of the JHU Teaching Academy, is assured.
Consent Contact
gbosch2@jhu.edu
Special Comments

This course is offered through the R3 Center for Innovation in Science Education