Encouraging Mutual Support for Improved Pedagogy and Professional Resilience in Clinics and Externships from Beginning to End - Ideas for Intraschool and Interschool Collaborations, Mentoring Programs, Co-Teaching, and Transition Planning

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Session Type: Concurrent Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Hotel: Marriott St. Louis Grand

Room: Majestic A

Floor: Second Floor, Conference Plaza

This session describes ideas for our professional development in clinical and externship education as a means to help us in sustaining and energizing movements in the face of barriers, focusing on the different needs we have at different times in our careers and in different regions of the country and the globe. From sabbatical visits and short-term collaborations to formal mentorships and assessment mechanisms across programs, presenters will discuss how inter school, intra school, regional, national, and international collaborations bring hope, resilience, and ideas. This solidarity is critical to the work we do as teachers, scholars, and advocates advancing justice. The benefits of visiting another program to expand your and their ideas can help fortify isolated professors and students who face marginalization within society because of their identities, and sometimes marginalization within academia because of their role in experiential education. We will describe both US and international initiatives to assess and improve teaching, scholarship, and program design. We will generate ideas for how to support transitions in our programs from early career to retirement through sabbaticals, visiting professorships, and consulting opportunities. Participants will leave with tools and resources to identify future collaborations for their own professional growth and support in the face of challenging external environments.