Small Teaching

What does the movie Moneyball, the story of the 2014 Kansas City Royals professional baseball team’s adoption of small incremental practices that brought them from obscurity to the World Series, have to do with teaching more effectively? This movie was the inspiration for the book Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James Lang (2016). Like the incremental practices that got the Royals on base to score runs, the underlying principle here is the same. Small, incremental educational practices that increase learner engagement drive better learning than passive listening to the professor in the classroom or the faculty member telling students and residents things in the clinic or on hospital rounds. Join Drs. Jerry Rabalais and Staci Saner as they discuss easy, practical things that can be done by the faculty member in both the classroom or in the clinical teaching environment to increase learner engagement and therefore learning significantly. For a deeper dive into this topic, check out our online module on these principles with practical suggestions that you can implement in your teaching at: https://rise.articulate.com/share/9e35Z1bUx6y-VYFKVrnskKDIBWxd8HyQ