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• Teaching Method


  Way info is taught that brings learner into contact with what is to be learned
• Teaching Strategy


  Methods that teachers/health educator use to deliver course material in ways that keep students/clients engaged and practicing different skill sets
• Factors to consider

  Audience characteristics

  Educator's expertise as a teacher

  Objectives of learning

  Potential for achieving learning outcomes

  Cost-effectiveness

  Setting for teaching

  Evolving technology
• lecture


  Highly structured method by which educator verbally transmits info directly to group of learners
• Approaches for effective transfer of knowledge (Silberman, 2006)

  Use opening and summary statements

  Present key terms

  Offer examples

  Use analogies

  Use visual backups
• conclusion


  Wrap up of the topic
• introduction


  -Present and explain objectives

  -Use of set
• body


  content
• Variables of Speech

  -Volume

  -Rate

  -Pitch/tone

  -Pronunciation

  -Enunciation

  -Proper grammar

  -Avoidance of speech fillers
• Variables of Body Language

  Demo enthusiasm

  Make frequent eye contact

  Use posture and movement

  Use gestures
• Use gestures


  Non-repetitive
• Use posture and movement


  Self-confidence and Professionalism
• Variables of Visual Aids

  Do not put all content on slides

  Use largest font possible

  Do not exceed 25 words per slide

  Choose colors with high level contrast

  Use graphics

  Do not overdo animation
• group discussion


  Learners get together to actively change info, feelings, and opinions with one another and with the educator
• types of group discussion

  Team-based learning

  Cooperative learning

  Case studies

  seminars
• Team-based learning 4 key principle

  Forming heterogeneous groups

  Stressing student accountability

  Providing meaningful team assignments

  Providing feedback
• Team-based learning


  Uses structured combination of reclass preparation, individual and group readiness assurance tests and application exercises
• Cooperative learning


  Educator is center of authority, with group tasks more close ended and often have specific answers
• 4 key components of group discussion

  Extensive structuring of learning tasks

  Strongly interactive student-student execution of task

  Immediate debriefing or other assessments

  Instructional modification based on feedback
• case studies


  Offers opportunities to become thoroughly acquainted with patient situation before discussion of patient and family needs and identifying health-related problems
• seminars


  Several sessions in which group of staff nurses/students, facilitated by educator, discuss questions and issues emerging from assigned readings on a topic
• one to one instruction


  Refers to a teaching or learning situation where a single instructor provides personalized guidance, support, and instruction to a single learner.
• Educators' Guide to Help Learner thru Stages of Change

  Precontemplation stage

  Contemplation stage

  Preparation stage

  Action stage

  Maintenance stage
• Precontemplation stage


  Provide information in a nonthreatening manner
• Contemplation stage


  Support decision making for change
• Preparation stage


  Support a move to action
• Action stage


  Encourage constant practice of new behavior
• Maintenance stage


  Continue encouragement and support
• Demo


  what educator does to show the learner how to perform a skill
• Return Demo


  learner carries out as an attempt to establish competence by performing task with cues from educator as needed
• gaming


  Method of instruction requiring learner to participate in competitive play with preset rules
• simulation


  Trial-and-error method where artificial experience is created engaging the learner in an activity reflecting real-life conditions but with risk-taking consequences of reality
• role play


  Learners actively participate in an unrehearsed dramatization
• role model


  -Use of self

  -Identification

  -Targets affective domain
• self instruction


  Used to provide or design instructional activities that guide learner in independently achieving the objectives of learning
• self instruction


  Focuses on one topic; INDEPENDENT study
• Elements of Self-Instruction

  -An intro with statement of purpose and directions on use

  -A list of prerequisite skills

  -A list of behavioral objectives

  -A pretest

  -An identification of resources

  -An outline of actual learning activities

  -An estimated total length of time for completion

  -Different presentations for material based on objectives and resources available

  -Periodic self-assessments

  -A posttest
• Health education plan


  A written or printed course of action that contains health promotion and disease prevention programs and/or activities for a target individual, group, community or family basing on their health needs/problems.
• plannning


  process of making thoughtful and systematic decisions about what needs to be done, how it has to be done, by whom, and with what resources.
• purpose


  The WHY of the educational session