Leadership Roles
Common Leadership Responsibilities (across all roles)
- Embrace and operationalize Vista principles
- Ensure innovative curriculum development and delivery with appropriate, engaged methodology
- Promote practices that build an equitable and diverse learning environment
- Recruit faculty and utilize resources to promote educator growth and development
- Oversee fair, diverse, and appropriate learner assessment, feedback, and remediation
- Resolve personal or faculty schedule conflicts to ensure continuity of curriculum delivery
- Provide structured observation and feedback of educators to promote educational excellence
- Identify and address bias to support an inclusive and representative curriculum
- Embrace integration of longitudinal focus and biomedical topics
- Demonstrate collaboration within and across blocks and programs
- Respond to student feedback and institutional initiatives
- Participate in at least two internal UMass Chan educator development sessions focused on general teaching and curricular focus topics (separate from block or program-specific development); unless otherwise noted, annual participation in DRIVE workshop
Expectations
- Commitment to three-year minimum shared leadership of the block, program, and/or longitudinal component
- Collaborative integration of biomedical, clinical, health systems and longitudinal focus topics
- Demonstrated capability, interest, and aspirations for educational leadership
- Shared leadership of the related Vista build team (January 2022)
Modified AUG 12 2022 | AG