To enhance the professional development of the College of Pharmacy faculty.

Current charges:

• Train faculty in the process of peer evaluation;
• Establish a voluntary mentoring program;
• Introduce more active learning in our classrooms; and
• Develop a "self-evaluation of teaching" rubric for our faculty to use to reflect on their current and future teaching.

New Curriculum

The UH College of Pharmacy launched its new curriculum in the fall of 2018! Faculty development will have an even more important role in helping faculty incorporate more active learning into their courses to provide more comprehensive, long-lasting learning.

Over the summer 2018, the faculty, post-docs and graduate students were reading and discussing "Rigor mortis: how sloppy science creates worthless cures, crushes hope and wastes billions" by Richard Harris, (Basic Books Publishers, 2017).

Future events

Workshops

Held for the college faculty: See the Faculty Development course in Blackboard.

• Writing good multiple choice questions: Lindsay Schwarz
• Analyzing multiple choice question result data: Lindsay Schwarz
• How to write effective rubrics: Taylor Fayle
• Writing goals and objectives: Emad Mansour (previous head of UH faculty development)
• Introduction to active learning in large classrooms: Lindsay Schwarz