Center for Teaching and Learning Teaching Academy


Welcome to the Center for Teaching and Learning, Teaching Academy, where we honor and develop Morehouse School of Medicine’s faculty by promoting and celebrating excellence for medical educators.

The Teaching Academy was established in 2022. Our Founding membership was comprised of 4 Teachers of Distinction who were assigned as mentees to emerging faculty members. The collective Teaching Academy resources are currently available to all MSM faculty. The Academy provides a forum to foster higher levels of participation and promote excellence and scholarship in the delivery of education to health professionals. The Academy is a collective of outstanding faculty educators in the School of Medicine who are highly engaged in the educational mission. Each strives to have a significant impact on educational endeavors in diverse settings with a variety of learners.

Mission & Values

Mission & Values

Center for Teaching and Learning, Teaching Academy, at Morehouse School of Medicine is to promote excellence in teaching and celebrate stellar faculty and master teachers to build an unconventional repository of resources that will provide knowledge and activities to transform instruction, mentorship, and promote scholarly activities in education.  

The academy will serve as a national model of pedagogy excellence in creating a learning environment, that optimizes innovations in medical education, biomedical research, public health practice, and use of health equity learning simulation of Primarily Caring.

Goals

Goals

  1. Promote Teaching Excellence
  • Faculty Development Programs: The Teaching Academy will offer at least two ongoing professional development virtual modules on effective teaching practices, and innovative instructional methods (e.g., active learning, flipped classrooms, or experiential learning).
  • Recognition and Rewards for Teaching: The Teaching Academy will establish awards, grants, and incentives that celebrate faculty who excel in teaching and make significant contributions to student success.
  • Teaching and Learning Centers: The Teaching Academy will create virtual centers dedicated to teaching and learning, where faculty can access resources, receive feedback on their teaching, and participate in peer mentorship programs.
  1. Provide Pedagogical Resources
  • Curriculum Development Support: The Teaching Academy will offer instructional design assistance to help faculty create engaging and student-centered curricula, incorporating active learning strategies, inclusive teaching practices, and assessment for learning via 1:1 coaching opportunities.
  1. Encourage Collaboration and Community
  • Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: The Teaching Academy will promote collaboration across disciplines to share best practices and innovative teaching strategies. This could be facilitated through faculty learning communities or interdisciplinary working groups.
  • Regular Feedback Loops: The Teaching Academy will encourage collaboration between faculty and students by creating regular feedback mechanisms. This allows instructors to understand students' needs, adapt their teaching methods, and foster better learning outcomes.
  • Peer Observation and Mentorship: The Teaching Academy will establish a peer observation system where faculty can observe and learn from each other’s teaching methods. Pair experienced faculty with new or early-career instructors for mentorship.
Excellence in Teaching

Excellence in Teaching

The academy will:

  • Develop a curriculum to enhance excellence in teaching
  • Provide ongoing faculty development seminars
  • Provide support for teaching fellowships
  • Develop instruments of measure and policies that will link teaching skills with promotion and compensation
Rewards for Teaching Excellence

Rewards for Teaching Excellence

  • Rewards for faculty who meet guidelines for excellence in teaching
  • Support of professional development activities
  • Membership to the Master Teacher Mentorship Institute
Scholarship in Education

Scholarship in Education

  • Support for scholarly activities in education
  • Innovation in Teaching and Learning
  • Faculty development resources that will facilitate innovations in teaching and learning in support of MSM's mission
Curriculum Development

Curriculum Development

  • The academy will promote and support opportunities for innovations in curriculum development.
  • Teaching Academy Committee will formalize the criteria and board of educators
  • TAM Committee will formalize the criteria and board of educator

 

Preparing Future Leaders & Learners

Preparing Future Leaders & Learners

A Bold Vision Imperative for the Next Generation of Learners and Leaders

  • IMPACT: The World Needs What We Do Best
  • Shifting the Curve
  • Providing Primarily Caring Physicians, Public Health Champions and Catalyst Scientist and Leaders to the globe
  • MSM has ~230 faculty and 65.37 teaching FTEs
  • The Teaching Academy at MSM is a personalized collaborative and collective learning intensive established to provide robust training & development for faculty and designed to yield master teachers and assert idealistic teaching methods to advance our North Star Health Equity for all our cadre of learners.
  • How are we integrating innovation and optimizing our collective effort to disrupt status quo learning models using our predictive analytics for ourselves through relevant assessment and evaluation methodologies to achieve the desired outcomes?
Meet our Team

Meet our Team

Kimberly Gore, Ed.D.
Director of Teaching Academy
Morehouse School of Medicine
kgore@msm.edu

Dr. John Patrickson
Co-Director of Teaching Academy
Morehouse School of Medicine
jpatrickson@msm.edu

Contact Us

Contact Us

Center for Teaching and Learning, Teaching Academy
720 Westview Drive, SW
Atlanta, GA 30310
Email: teachingacademy@msm.edu