Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Promoting Educational Research and Development
ACET promotes a research-driven environment that creates opportunities for a broad range of innovative approaches to improving the art of teaching through scholarly activities. ACET offers small grant programs, grant writing workshops and technical writing assistance, courses in education research methods, consultation and guidance for collaborative educational research and practice, and provides assistance with developing manuscripts for publication.
Educational Research
Promoting Educational Research and Development
ACET promotes a research-driven environment that creates opportunities for a broad range of innovative approaches to improving the art of teaching through scholarly activities. ACET offers small grant programs, grant writing workshops and technical writing assistance, courses in education research methods, consultation and guidance for collaborative educational research and practice, and provides assistance with developing manuscripts for publication.
Periodicals Related to College Teaching
Teaching Recognition
Presidential Teaching Excellence Awards
Each year a select few outstanding faculty are nominated, reviewed, and awarded the Presidential Teaching Excellence Award. Previous award winners
UT System Academy of Health Science Education
Scholarship of Teaching Grants
In order to enhance the Scholarship of Teaching at UT Health Science Center San Antonio, the Academic Center for Excellence in Teaching periodically provides Scholarship of Teaching and Learning grants. Over sixty faculty members from across campus have received STG awards since 1996. STG awards have been used for a variety of projects including developing computer-based learning modules, Web-based courses, pilot-testing new strategies to evaluate student competence, environmental health and safety, and conducting research to measure the effectiveness of educational strategies. The STG program provides start-up grants to support faculty efforts to develop innovative educational or evaluation methods with the goal of improving educational methods and learning outcomes. The program typically provides financial support up to a maximum of $5,000 per project.
STG applications are awarded on a competitive basis. Applications are reviewed and selected for funding by a panel of faculty representatives from all UTHSCSA schools and other academic support units.
Previous Grant Recipients
2009 Scholarship of Teaching Grant Awardees
Brenda J. Talley, MD: Efficiently and Effectively Teaching Mental Status Exams to Medical Students
Taline Dalian Infante, DDS: Realizing Enhanced Student Inter-Professional Education through Clinical Teamwork (RESPECT)
Craig M. Klugman, Ph.D.: Online Advance Care Planning Through Social Networking
Erica R. Oliveira, DDS: Case-sharing online learning to enhance dental students clinical education
Bridgett Piernik-Yoder, Ph.D.: Facilitating scholarship of teaching through development of electronic course portfolios
Ross Willis, Ph.D.: Comparison of Four Pedagogical Approaches to Psychomotor Skills Acquisition
Amruta D. Parekh, MD, MPH: Design and implement an online flash presentation of the Healthcare Matrix for a Quality Improvement (QI) and Patient Safety (PS) Rotation for Internal Medicine Residents at UTHSCSA
2007 Scholarship of Teaching Grant Awardees
Thea Ballinger, MD, Jim Tysinger, PhD, Mark Nadeau, MD, and Juanita Trevino (Family and Community Medicine): Mobile Medicine Podcast Program
Jean Petershack, MD (Pediatrics), Cathy Robichaux, MD (Anesthesiology), and Sara Gill, PhD (Family Nursing): Interdisciplinary Education in Palliative Care
Pranavi Sreeramoju, MD (Medicine), Jennifer Peel, PhD (Anesthesiology), Aggie Manwell-Jackson, PhD (Academic Informatics Services), and Jan Patterson, MD (Medicine): Infection Prevention Education for UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Personnel
Robert Badgett, M.D. (Medicine), Glen Medellin, M.D. (Pediatrics): A Free-text Based Audience Response System to Enhance Team Learning and Group Decision Making
Alicia Galvan, DDS, Kelly Halligan, DDS, Adriana Vargas, DDS, Mary Norma Partida, DDS (General Dentistry): Heroes for the Homeless: Strategies for Teaching Dental Students about Cultural Competency
2007 UT System Health Science Education Small Grant Awards
Six proposals were funded statewide. Three were from UT Health Science Center San Antonio:
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Dr. Glen Medellin (Pediatrics): Wireless Classroom Network: Engaging Students through Audience Response Systems and Team Based Learning
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Dr. Jean Petershack (Pediatrics): Performance Assessment of the Newborn History and Physical Examination by Medical Students and Residents
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Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Reilly (Family & Community Medicine): Development and Implementation of an End-of-Life Communication Skills Educational Intervention for Interdisciplinary Trainees: The DIE-COM
2006 Scholarship of Teaching Grant Awardees