WED-047 - Undergraduate Teaching Strategies and Idea Sharing

Brief Abstract Summary: Discover teaching techniques that faculty members across the country are using in their undergraduate public health education and promotion courses and network with your peers! Discussions will be facilitated by current faculty who will share strategies that they are utilizing to engage students, and participants are encouraged to bring their own ideas and strategies to share with others, as well as questions and challenges they may be facing in the classroom. Specific topics will focus on out-of-class teaching opportunities, collaboration with community partners for course activities, and CHES exam preparation.

Detailed abstract description: Eta Sigma Gamma board members and faculty from six different universities have come together to host a roundtable session on undergraduate teaching strategies. Faculty from undergraduate programs are encouraged to attend and discover teaching techniques used across the country in public health education and promotion courses. Discussions will be facilitated by current faculty who will share strategies they are utilizing to engage students, and participants are encouraged to bring their own ideas and strategies to share with others, as well as questions and challenges they may be facing in the classroom. With the wide variety of facilitators, experiences in large, public universities to smaller private schools, as well as on-campus and distance learning programs will all be shared. Specific topics will focus on out-of-class teaching opportunities, collaboration with community partners for course activities, and CHES exam preparation. This will also be a fantastic opportunity for attendees in similar roles to network with one another, share ideas, and take home tools, resources, and techniques that they can apply to their work.