No one taught me to teach: Preparation for challenging situations

Abstract

Socialization is often the mechanism through which faculty acquire knowledge of teaching behaviors, but teaching-related training can have a powerful impact on practice. This session will provide evidence-based practices and strategies to support the work of educational developers by sharing results from a large-scale, multi-institution mixed methods study asking faculty about influences on their teaching, examples of teaching-related training that has been useful, and training they wish they’d had. We will additionally share strategies faculty have used and how prepared faculty feel to deal with difficult situations in their courses such as student incivility and controversial events on campus.