Evidence-Based Teaching provides trainees with the skills, knowledge, and experience to be successful and inclusive educators.
Whether teaching is part of your career goals or not, developing evidence-based teaching skills and experience is valuable for all scientists. Through evidence-based teaching you will improve your communication skills and your awareness of teaching practices that include all students. Teaching experience can help you determine the extent to which you want teaching to be part of your career, improve your candidacy for faculty positions at teaching-focused institutions, and prepare you for your first teaching assignment as a professor which can allow you to focus on setting up your research and getting grants.
Ways to explore teaching
Find materials, resources, and community for teaching, and learn more about the field of education research (the field that generates the data behind these evidence-based practices)
Though UCSF has no undergraduates, there are teaching opportunities here and at nearby institutions.
Evidence-Based Teaching (STEP-UP)
This course prepares you for faculty positions by introducing you to evidence-based teaching practices and the studies that back them up. You will develop inclusive teaching skills by designing and delivering your own lesson plan.
STEP-UP is no longer offered as a course by OCPD, but you can explore some of the materials from previous classes here.
