Unravelling the Complexities of Teacher Motivation from the Perspectives of Teachers, Learners and Leadership: Implications for Teacher Engagement and Recruitment
In this presentation, Katherine Wisener will highlight the perspectives of teachers themselves, the learners they teach, and those in educational leadership roles who supervise teachers in order to offer a holistic view of the complexities, unintended consequences, and nuanced perspectives in an attempt to elucidate helpful insight into how teachers may be better supported.
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Description
The recruitment and retention of teachers in health professions education is challenging and creates a significant amount of stress and pressure on programs to mitigate. Implementing incentives and strategies that ought to support those who teach can backfire if not delivered carefully, often unintentionally worsening the problem. For example, teaching awards, financial stipends, and feedback from learners can create perceptions of undervalue when they are impersonal, inequitable, inefficient, or poorly framed. In this presentation, I will highlight the perspectives of teachers themselves, the learners they teach, and those in educational leadership roles who supervise teachers in order to offer a holistic view of the complexities, unintended consequences, and nuanced perspectives in an attempt to elucidate helpful insight into how teachers may be better supported. The goal of this presentation is to further our understanding around how HPE teachers’ motivations can be optimized to recruit, support and retain teachers while reinforcing their engagement with, and dedication to, teaching.
Presenter
Katherine Wisener is the Associate Director for Faculty Development in the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a PhD in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University, and received her MA degree in Educational Psychology at UBC. Her PhD is focused on how health professions education programs can support those who teach medical students and residents, with the goal of improving recruitment, engagement and retention of clinical teachers. In her faculty development role, she works to provide administrative and program leadership for faculty development efforts across undergraduate, postgraduate, and health professions contexts in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine.
Rounds Details
Best Practices in Education Rounds (BPER) are co-hosted by the Centre for Faculty Development, The Wilson Centre and the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education.
Accreditation Details
Each BPER has been accredited for up to:
- 1 College of Family Physicians of Canada – Mainpro+ credits
- 1 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada – Section 1 hours
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