SoTLfest Required Symposia
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTLfest) sessions examine how teaching is valued, assessed, and rewarded and how it contributes overall to the learning experience of students and educators. These sessions typically describe best practices in teaching, assessment, scholarship, proven ways of delivering ideas and knowledge, and increasing the quality of the teaching and learning experience.
Participants can be recognized for their participation in this track. To be eligible for an ADEA SoTLfest Certificate of Recognition, attendees must register in advance and attend one of the three required SoTLfest sessions and three other SoTLfest-designated/endorsed events.
Attendees must choose ONE of the following three symposia, plus attend three other designated workshops.
ENGAGE: Recognizing the Scholarship of Discovery and Rewarding Educational Research and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Sunday, March 18, 2012
The structures and concepts of scientific inquiry and the development of new knowledge to be shared and built upon by colleagues are interwoven throughout the academy. Faculty who participate in educational research do so to measure the impact of new innovative teaching and learning methodologies. Facilitated by educational methodologies experts and dental education SoTL leaders from ADEA and IADR/AADR, participants will be exposed to the experiences, processes, and approaches necessary to raise teaching and educational research to a level of significance accorded to basic scientific research. This positively impacts their opportunities for promotion and/or tenure.
From Idea Conception to Publication: Engaging Students to Make Research Contributions for Growth of the Profession
Monday, March 19, 2012
High quality scholarship is an important element in professions such as dentistry and dental hygiene. Developing future professionals who can conduct scholarly activity is a goal of most graduate programs. However, the recent growth in the number of online and traditional graduate level dental hygiene programs has created challenges in how to develop research skills in students, especially given the number of qualified faculty needed to mentor students. Another factor is that program requirements among graduate programs are inconsistent making true scholarly contributions difficult to obtain. Scholarship may occur at the institution, but it stops short of dissemination to the public through publication. This session will include a panel discussion and workshop for graduate students, dental and dental hygiene faculty who are responsible for mentoring graduate students or who would like to learn more about how to become an effective mentor of student engagement in research and publication.
A Model for Integrating Research, Professional Development, and Critical Thinking in Dental School Curricula
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Presenters will discuss an integrated curriculum model that synthesizes critical thinking concepts and professionalism within elements of evidence-based research. This model emerged through collaboration among diverse dental school departments/disciplines. Identified strategies ensure students receive experiences in critical thinking/problem-solving, personal and professional development, and evidence-based research. The teaching/learning process evolves sequentially in the first two years of dental school and translates into a reduction of curriculum credit hours while increasing the number of experiential learning hours. Within four semesters, students complete self-assessments, a comprehensive topical literature review, debates on critical professional issues in dentistry, didactic modules in statistics and epidemiology, and faculty mentor facilitated research proposals for implementation that can lead to authored evidence-based research being published. Educators are introduced to this model to expand critical thinking, professionalism, and research within a crowded dental school curriculum.
ADEA Signature Series
Breaking Down the Silos - Engaging Across Disciplines and Professions
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Coordinated by the ADEA Leadership Institute Alumni Association
The ADEA Signature Series is an full–day workshop coordinated by the ADEA Leadership Institute. Presenters will focus on breaking down the silos and engaging across disciplines and professions. This interactive session will include onstage interviews, presentations, and panel discussions with association leaders, dental school deans, leaders in business and higher education, students, and ADEA Leadership Institute alumni. In addition, participants will engage in case studies and action planning to assist in identifying ways to engage across disciplines and professions at their home institutions.
Fees
Member - $200
Nonmember - $325
Discourse and Dessert : An Evening Plenary on Gender Issues
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Featuring Patricia Russell-McCloud, this session brings together ADEA members and guests in an informal environment for discussion that focuses on gender issues and provides an opportunity for networking.. The guest speakers are people of achievement and power who contribute to the wellbeing of the communities they serve. The potential of women and men in the world order is enhanced by exposure to ideas and role models that use “big picture” strategies to affect all of mankind, especially the careers of women and minorities.
Fees
$59 per person
William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation, and Achievement
Monday, March 19, 2012
The William J. Gies Awards for Vision, Innovation, and Achievement (The Gies Awards) are the pre-eminent recognition of exceptional contributions to support to oral health and oral health education. The Gies Awards are an annual program of the ADEAGies Foundation.
Fees
$185 per person
ADEA 5K Fun Run
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
This is an opportunity for meeting attendees and guests to participate in a 5K Fun Run/Walk.