Mission of the Academy

The Academy of Excellence in Teaching and Learning will advance and support the educational mission through innovation, collaboration, scholarship and faculty will be recognized for excellence in education by inducting them into the academy and learning from their contributions and collaborations.

Membership Eligibility

Teaching Award recipients from any year that include awards from university, department, school, state, and national organizations.  Members will also include graduates of the longitudinal HSC Teaching Scholars Program.

Those faculty who have made significant contributions to the development of modules for the longitudinal Teaching Scholars Program.

• To foster and promote excellence in education.
• To bring together distinguished teachers and expand mentorship and their innovations, scholarship, and ability to provide role modeling for other faculty.
• To foster and promote excellence in education by creating collaborative networks and improving possibilities for funding.

Award winning faculty should submit the following three documents by January 31, 2010:

• Complete the online application.
•  Submit an electronic, short version of their CV
• Submit a biosketch third person narrative limited to 300 words using Times New Roman size 10 font to gmarshall@hsc.wvu.edu

For questions phone:

Gwendolyn Marshall, MSIR
HSC Faculty Development
Program Manager
304.293.5266

Susan B. Anthony, PT, is an Associate Professor at WVU in the Physical Therapy Program and is currently a PhD student in the Educational Psychology Program also at WVU.  She was awarded the Innovative Teaching Award in 2007 and 2008 for implementing unique teaching strategies.  She was instrumental in developing a rotation for junior students in a skilled nursing facility.  She also contributed to a course redesign for the introduction to rehabilitation which included multimedia health outreach program.  She also developed a course evaluation plan which charts the effectiveness of feedback.  She is the author of 2 textbooks which focus on basic and applied research skills.

The inaugural induction ceremony was held on Monday, April 27, 2009.  The inaugural class of inductees included.

• To initiate a journal club for health professionals to meet at least every other month.
• To review a variety of journals to provide a broad perspective on health profession education.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

“The Think Aloud Approach as an Educational Tool to Develop and Assess Clinical Reasoning in Undergraduate Students,” Maggi Banning, Nurse Education Today (2008) 28, 8–14

“Using SNAPPS to Facilitate the Expression of Clinical Reasoning and Uncertainties: A Randomized Comparison Group Trial,” Terry Wolpaw, MD, MHPE, Klara K. Papp, PhD, and Georges Bordage, MD, PhD, Academic Medicine, Vol. 84, No. 4 / April 2009

Thursday, January 28, 2010, 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm, John E. Jones Conference Center Banquet Rooms

Articles to be discussed will be posted as soon as possible.

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm, John E. Jones Conference Center Banquet Rooms

Articles to be discussed will be posted as soon as possible.