Spreading the Gospel
with Speed Designing:
Faculty Development
through Peer Coaching
Terry Carter, Roy Sabo, and Fidelma Rigby
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of Medicine
The Problem
The Challenge
Unique Aspects of Teaching in
a Medical School
Block schedules
215 students in
a class
Learners that
drink from a
firehose!
Kurt Lewin’s Force Field
Restraining Forces
New Building
Accreditation
Standards
Didactic Tradition
New Curriculum
Desire for
Active Learning
Resistant Faculty
Lack of Knowledge
about Pedagogy
Lack of
Facilitation Skills
The Road Ahead
The Solution: Speed Designing
Our Sources of Inspiration:
Speed Dating
Ideas in Speed Dating Adapted to
Speed Designing!
Rapid, round robin sharing of information
Introduction to potential “partners”
Matchmaking to find a good fit with an
instructional or assessment strategy
Diffusion of
Innovations: Rogers
(1962/2003)
Origins of Rogers’ Theory
Anthropology
Early Sociology
Rural Sociology
Education
Industrial Sociology
Medical Sociology
Five Stages of Accepting an Innovation
Knowledge
Persuasion
Decision
Implementation
Confirmation
During
communication, an
idea is rarely
evaluated from a
scientific standpoint;
rather, subjective
perceptions of the
innovation influence
diffusion
:
Peer Coaching
(Showers and Joyce, 1996)
Faculty as Cheerleaders
and Coaches
Why It Worked:
A Core Group of Faculty Trained in
Educational Methods
Goals for the Program
Enhance depth and breadth of faculty expertise to support
teaching and learning in medicine.
Foster the development of a cadre of academic leaders who can
model best practices in teaching within undergraduate, clinical,
and graduate programs.
Promote leadership in the scholarship of teaching and learning
(SoTL) through contributions in the medical education literature.
Courses in the Graduate Certificate
Required to earn
the Certificate
Electives (Choose
two)
Instructional
Strategies
Performance Feedback
and Simulation
Curriculum Design
Group and Team
Facilitation
Adult Learning
Theory and Practice
Digital Media
Technologies for
Teaching in Medicine
Teaching as
Scholarship in
Medical Education
Reflective Practice
Faculty
in theand
TiME
Program
Influence
Credibility
ofBecame
Peers
the Innovators
Adopters
Sharingand
withEarly
Peers
How Speed Designing Sessions Worked
Three hour commitment, Noon – 3 pm
Lunch and Listen to 45 minutes of lecture
• Writing goals and objectives
• Alignment between goals & objectives, instructional and assessment
strategies
Move to the Learning Studios, one or two coaches per table
Eight tables offering 15 minute overview of a teaching topic
Used a Web-based timer to signal time to rotate among tables
Speed Designing with Instructional
Strategies
Case-based
Learning
Team-based
Learning
Learning
Climate
Just-in-Time
Teaching
POGIL
Using Bloom’s
Taxonomy
Human
Simulation
Standardized
Patients
Speed Designing with Assessment
Strategies
Oral
Presentations
Peer
Assessments
Using Bloom’s
Taxonomy
Using Rubrics
Reflective Writing
Self-Assessments
Writing MCQs
ePortfolios and
Concept Maps
The most important thing I
walked away with was a
clearer understanding of how
important course goals and
objectives are…
Really demystified the details
of using some of these small
group strategies … loved the
different approaches, when
prep is involved for students,
and when it is not…
The most important thing I
learned was how to develop
a rubric … and how to
encourage reflective writing
in my course
I never realized that peer
evaluation was one of the
best ways to evaluate at
the highest levels of
Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Six Months Later
Which Workshop / What Role?
Implementation of New Ideas?
• How well did it work?
• Barriers or constraints?
• Intentions to use, if not yet?
Did you share any of the ideas learned with
peers?
Have They Tried it? How Did It Work?
If Not, What Barriers or Constraints
Prevented Implementation?
Do they Intend to Use The Ideas They
Learned? When?
Influence and Credibility of Peers
Sharing with Peers
What Have They Shared?
What We Have Learned about The
Diffusion of New Ideas
Opportunities for Practice and
Reinforcement
Support for Speed Designing
Teaching in Medical
Education (TiME)
Faculty Fellows
program of
graduate courses
Special Interest
Groups
iTeach Web
Portal - Online
Resources and
Tutorials (under
development)
Lunchtime
Learning
Workshops
Additional Plans for Future Speed
Designing Sessions
Digital Media
Technologies in Teaching
Simulation in
Medical Education
Strategies for
Reflective Practice
How Might You Use
Speed Designing in Your
Teaching and Learning
Setting?
Credits
George Ben Johnston Auditorium
VCU MCV Campus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewbain/2492083539/
Photo taken May 14, 2008 by taberandrew
Collaborative Tables
Jeanne Schlesinger, VCU School of Medicine, 2012
Doctor, Doctor!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/littman/185210169/in/set72157605511735837/
Used with permission from photographer, Littman, March 18, 2006 – All rights
reserved otherwise
Credits
Desert Leader
Hamed Saber
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamed/327939900/sizes/m/in/faves-carlaarena/
December 15, 2006
Diffusions of Innovations
http://www.robertsoninnovation.com/favorite-innovation-books/ and
http://www.altastreet.com/sites/all/files/asxhost/20110714211709!DiffusionOf
Innovation.png
Speed Dating
http://www.wrwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Speed-Dating-2.jpg
Speed Dating Business Finance Style
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/3059068335_4e0562ab29.jpg
Singles Speed Dating, Washington, DC
http://www.prosinthecity.com/blog/images/dating-in-dc.jpg
Credits
Peer Coaching
https://as.exeter.ac.uk/support/educationqualityandenhancementprojects/curr
ent_projects/peercoaching/
Peers – Kidspot, Peer Pressure at School
http://www.kidspot.com.au/schoolzone//Social-and-emotional-FriendshipsPeer-pressure-at-school+4056+394+article.htm
Taken by Justin Coulson
Student Activities Office presents: Speed Dating
http://www.flickr.com/photos/schoolcraftconnection/8679196498/
Taken by Ann Phan
February 15, 2013
Speed Dating
Taken by Linh Do
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lmdo/6404420503/
November 25, 2011
Credits
Virginia Commonwealth University Rams – NCAA Tournament Cheerleaders
http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/1103/cbb-ncaatournament-cheerleaders-southwest/images/vcu-cheerleaders-opxc-38542.jpg
Shaka Smart
http://www.ibtimes.com/shaka-smart-vcu-illinois-427750
Time Management vs. Drinking from a Firehose
http://debevansce.com/2010/09/16/time-management-vs-drinking-from-afire-hose/
Getting kids to practice
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/06/18/155282684/gettingkids-to-practice-music-without-tears-or-tantrums
Why climb a ladder when you can climb a jungle gym
http://thrivepotential.com/why-climb-a-ladder-when-you-can-climb-a-junglegym/
Credits
SunGraph Calendar
http://www.dcgeorge.com/SunGraphCalendar.html
Grab and Go
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/fashion/host-a-clothing-swapgrab-and-go-2#slide-7
Learning- ASTD banner
http://www.astd.org/Communities-of-Practice