Table 3.

Example strategies to support teaching for implementation

Strategy	Approach/Rationale
Didactic expert lectures	Invite expert scientists and/or practitioners to teach their areas of expertise and passion. Helpful in ensuring learners have exposure to breadth of content beyond a primary teacher’s expertise; when guests are from real-world settings can have added benefit of helping learners understand these settings and the importance of stakeholder engagement
Engagement with applied tools and resources	Instead of providing learners with information that will not automatically be provided in the real world, encourage them to use tools and resources that are routinely needed. Ensures learners are able to “do” implementation when they enter the workforce
Creating a community of practice	Create a website and learning environment that recognizes expertise and resources from both practitioners and researchers and does not only value academic literature
Small group interactive exercises	Invite expert scientists and/or practitioners to share their current implementation program and have teams of researchers and practitioners brainstorm solutions
Feedback and assessment	Tailor to learning needs and interests (e.g. select an evidence-based intervention and develop a dissemination and implementation plan and strategies tailored to their setting and population); provide feedback on their application to frameworks, methods, approaches from implementation science in their projects
Discussion-based learning	Assign prep work that introduces concepts; use in-person time to solidify with prompts or questions that encourage critical thinking and the application of these concepts. Maximizes in-person learning time and respects the contributions and experiences of adult learners.
Personal application	Course products should ask learners to apply methods and techniques in the context of a personally relevant project (grant proposal, local quality improvement effort, or program evaluation)