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The Teaching CoOp:

Flipping the World of Medical Education

The Teaching CoOp exists to connect passionate educators with other passionate educators. You will leave our teaching course with the necessary tools to improve engagement and increase learning while teaching relevant techniques in medical education. The international courses we provide throughout the year embrace collaborative thinking and practice for all members of the healthcare team, and any level of experience and training.

WHERE WE ARE TODAY

The hallmark of any keen learner is willingness to ask questions and we, the faculty of The Teaching Co-op, pride ourselves on asking why.

Why do so many medical education events focus on lecture-delivered information, when we know that lectures aren’t the most effective way to teach?
Why don’t we recognise that the people interested enough in medical education to come to our courses have things to teach us about education too?
Why can't we do things differently?

So we have made a commitment: our courses will not be lecture-based. When we teach and learn about medical education, it will be interactive and immersive.
We, the faculty, aim to learn as much from you as you do from us. We will showcase different teaching styles, techniques, tools and exercises; teaching and learning about education as we teach and learn about it – together.

WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE AT A COURSE

For each topic we cover (feedback, education theory, simulation in education, social media…), we will aim to use different teaching tools to explore the content – and then we will break it down, sharing with you how and why we have planned the session in the way that we have. In “Meta Moments” after each session we will revisit the intended learning outcomes, explain what we did to try to teach them, why we taught things in that way (and whether it worked!) and how we could teach the topic differently or use the technique or exercise to teach a different topic.
Of course, you are part of the #MetaMoment too – we want your input so we can all become better educators.
And at the end of the course, as well as sharing our references and resources, we’ll share the session plans too – so you can see how the course was put together.
Because lectures are only part of the story.

XXOO, Natalie May

Why TTC?
Because we are
Teaching Together Creatively.