From Research to Practice: Connecting Principles of “Smart Teaching” to Emergency Preparedness and Beyond

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Description

Who do you depend on to help in a disaster? Firefighters? Health Department?  Search and Rescue?  In a disaster, you count on numerous trained professionals.

Are we training our emergency preparedness workers in an optimal way?

Interdisciplinary researchers at the University of Minnesota: Simulations, Exercises and Effective Education Preparedness and Emergency Response Research and Learning Centers (U-SEEE
PERRC and PERL) have collaborated to research this question.

Converging with the Centers’ search for effective and efficient training methodologies is the work of Dr. Susan Ambrose. Ambrose has extensively researched teaching and learning, integrating fundamental research in psychology and cognitive science with practical application. Ambrose will briefly describe seven research-based principles that underlie how learning works, and connect them to approaches that maximize learning.  Learn how “smart teaching” applies to you!

Learning Objectives

• To identify one or more of the described teaching principles.
• To describe how the “smart teaching” principles are connected to teaching and learning in the context of emergency preparedness.

Biography

Susan A. Ambrose, DA, an internationally recognized scholar in college-level teaching and learning, is the vice provost for teaching and learning and professor of education at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

She has received numerous research grants from sources including the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Alcoa Foundation.

Ambrose is the co-author of the book, “How Learning Works: 7 Research- Based Principles for Smart Teaching.”

Event Moderator:
Judith Buchanan, PhD, DMD, Professor of Dentistry, Division of Prosthodontics
Department of Restorative Sciences, , University of Minnesota

Panelists:

• Craig Hedberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota

• Joan Rambeck, Training Director, Office of Emergency Response, Academic Health Center (AHC), University of Minnesota

• Colleen Monahan, DC, MPH, Director, Center for the Advancement of Distance Education (CADE) and Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Cheryl Petersen-Kroeber, MEP, Deputy Director, Office of Emergency Preparedness, Department of Health, State of Minnesota

• Bill Riley, PhD, Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management and Associate Dean for Student Affairs, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

About the Teaching and Learning Series
This Academic Health Center (AHC) Series is designed to foster a stronger community of teaching and learning among those in health-related professions. The series is jointly sponsored by the AHC Office of Education, AHC Associate Deans for Education, SPH Futures Committee for Lifelong Learning and the University of Minnesota: Simulations, Exercises, and Effective Education (U-SEEE), Preparedness & Emergency Response Research Center (PERRC) and Learning Center (PERL). U-SEEE Funding made possible, in part, by grant #5P01TP000301 and #1U90TP000418 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The content is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. © 2012 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.

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