Faculty Roles & Challenges in Interprofessional Gerontology

Education

Patty Robinson, PhDCollege of the Canyons

Rachel Price, MSGUCLA

Our FIPSE Programs

Systems Approach to Gerontology Education (SAGE) 2007-2010

Skills for Healthy Aging Resources & Programs (SHARP) 2010-2013

Challenge #1

Identifying “need” across college systems and across disciplines (gerontology, nursing & social welfare)

Our Approach

• Used discipline-specific competencies

• Faculty assessed how well competencies were being met in their programs using “competency mapping tool”

• Identified opportunities for faculty development to address gaps

Maximizing faculty adoption and use of new content in their own teaching programs

Challenge #2

• Developed curricula tool kits to provide flexibility in how they could be used

• Set expectations for faculty

• Built Action Planning into faculty development programs

• Provided follow-on TA/coaching

Our Approach

• Action Plan development: 32 small, 49 medium and 15 large

• Trained a total of 123 faculty (goal was 60)

• These faculty reached 4,433 other trainees (faculty and students) by 2010

www.geronet.ucla.edu/sage

SAGE Outcomes

How can we most effectively help college faculty to teach courses designed by project faculty?

Challenge #3

• Developed comprehensive tool kits and resources for course materials

• Hosted course specific break out sessions during faculty development programs

• Set up coaching/mentoring project faculty + teaching faculty course teams

• Project faculty served a TA/coaching role through call meetings prior to and during the course

Our Approach

• Courses developed and approved at both colleges

• Offered faculty development program to 18 College of the Canyons (COC) faculty

• Courses being piloted at COC Fall, 2011• Faculty development program planned for Feb,

2012 at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC)• Courses will continue at COC and be offered at

SBCC starting Fall, 2012

Status of SHARP

Thank YouFor information on SAGE or SHARP including all the content and tools:

Please contact:

Rachel Price at rprice@mednet.ucla.edu www.geronet.ucla.edu/sage

www.geronet.ucla.edu/sharp

Goodman Research Group, Cambridge MA served as our external evaluator for both projects