The Resource for all Your Teaching-Learning Needs in Radiology

Welcome to the ARRS Educator’s Toolkit for all educators who serve as course directors, moderators, and/or as faculty members for ARRS programs. This one-stop, comprehensive section for educators will provide current information regarding learning theory and techniques, resources, models, and samples of materials that can be used to plan, conduct, teach and evaluate educational activities.

Teaching Tips

Welcome to the ARRS Educator’s Toolkit for all educators who serve as course directors, moderators, and/or as faculty members for ARRS programs. This one-stop, comprehensive section for educators will provide current information regarding learning theory and techniques, resources, models, and samples of materials that can be used to plan, conduct, teach and evaluate educational activities.

ARRS offers practical teaching tips that will help make you a successful educator. Using various resources and based on adult learning theories, these easy-to-use and quick-to-apply tips cover all of the steps from planning through outcomes in developing and delivering effective educational activities. These tips are written by Beverly Wood, MD.

Tips are grouped under a category as applied to planning an educational activity; learning theory; presenting techniques; materials; or evaluating the program/outcomes. Each tip provides an overview and background information, key points to remember and/or use, and a summary. Resources may also be added...

Planning

• The Need for Needs
• Planning Your Talk
• What are Instructional Objectives?
• Learners’ Objectives

• Levels of Learning
• Key Ingredients for Learning

• My 5-Step Universal Model for a Learning Session
• Learner Centered Teaching
• Interactivity
• Building Interest During Your Lecture
• Active Learning: Assignments for Learning Partners
• Active Learning: Think-Pair-Share
• A Checklist for an Effective Teaching Session
• Teaching a Procedure

• Good Handouts
• Type and Text of Slides
• Use of Color in Presentations
• That Pesky Background
• The Scourge of Animation

• Tips for Using Response Cards