HE

• Hallmarks of Effective Teaching


  • Professional Competence
  • Desirable Personal Characteristics
  • Interpersonal Relationships with Students
  • Evaluation Practices
  • Teaching Practices
  • Availability to Students
• Professional Competence


  A cluster of related abilities, commitments, knowledge, and skills that enable a person (or an organization) to act effectively in a job or situation
• What competence does your favorite clinical instructor demonstrate?

  • Aims at excellence
  • Thorough knowledge
  • Demonstrates clinical competence
  • Excites student interest in nursing
  • Expands knowledge (reading, researching, CPE, clinical practice and experience)
• Desirable Personal Characteristics


  • Sense of Humor
  • Willingness to admit errors
  • Personal magnetism
  • Patience
  • Flexibility
  • Good speaking voice
  • Caring Attitude
  • Cheerfulness
  • Self-control
  • Self confidence
• Qualities that make learning more interesting and fun for you

  • Sense of Humor
  • Willingness to admit errors
  • Personal magnetism
  • Patience
  • Flexibility
  • Good speaking voice
  • Caring Attitude
  • Cheerfulness
  • Self-control
  • Self confidence
• Qualities of effective teachers (FLOWERS, 2000)


  • Committed - go extra mile & work long hours
  • Creative - stimulates intellectual inquisitiveness, exploratory & critical thinking
  • Intuitive - able to identify students' predominant style of intelligence; able to build on the student's strengths
• Qualities of effective teachers (CARNEGIE)


  • Conscientious/hardworking
  • Parenting role (freedom/limits)
  • Caring
• Some teachers believe that showing concern for and interest in students leads to lack of discipline in the classroom, with students taking advantage of their relationships. There is no evidence that this belief is accurate; in fact, there is considerable evidence that good student-teacher relationships enhances learning.
• Carl Rogers and studies indicate that students learn more in classrooms where teachers are student-oriented and emphatic.
• Interpersonal relationship


  A requisite to helping the student
• Three basic therapeutic approaches

  • Emphatic Listening - Teachers listen to learners and try to see the world through their eyes
  • Acceptance - Affirm that students are worthwhile people
  • Honest communication - Openness between educator and students creates a relaxed atmosphere
• Evaluation Practices


  • Clearly communicate expectation
  • Provide timely feedback
  • Correct students tactfully
  • Being fair in the evaluation
  • Giving tests pertinent to subject matter – don't give evaluation that is not related or relevant to the subject
• Teaching Practices


  • Thorough knowledge of the subject matter
  • Presents material in an interesting, clear and organized manner
  • Teacher's style
  • Personality
  • Personal interest in the subject matter
  • Use of a variety of teaching strategies
• Presenting subject matter in an interesting manner is a skill that can be learned
• Factors that stimulate and inspire learners

  • Teacher's style
  • Personality
  • Personal interest in the subject matter
  • Use of a variety of teaching strategies
• We have all been subject to teachers who, while brilliant, organized and even clear, lack the ability to present the class material in anything but a boring manner.
• Availability to Students


  • Helping students
  • Giving nurse care
  • Giving appropriate amount of supervisions
  • Freely answering questions
  • Acting as resource speaker
• Teacher Clarity


  A teacher who logically organizes instruction, explains what is to be learned, uses simple terms to present new material, constantly assesses whether students are understanding and can follow the teachers train of thought, uses examples when possible, allows students time to think about what is being taught, and uses repetition and summarization
• Respectful and supportive of learners, admits weaknesses - students see the humanness of their role models, able to recognize student's difficulties and figures out ways to help them
• Good teaching


  A form of parenting - caring about students, knowing when to set boundaries, knowing student's potentials
• A good teacher cares more than what students know; should be concerned with student's beliefs, values and relationships.
• 7 Principles of Good Practice Teaching in Undergraduate Education

  • Communicates high expectations
  • Respects diversity
  • Encourages interaction
  • Elicits cooperation
  • Emphasizes time
  • Prompt feedback
  • Students proactive
• Communicates Higher Expectations


  Teacher gives challenges but with encouragement and support
• Respects Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning


  Students have different learning styles, Teachers have different teaching strategies, approaches and methods
• Encourages Interaction Between Teacher and Learner


  Students are encouraged to participate and ask questions
• Elicits Cooperation


  Collaborative learning through study groups, group projects, group activities
• Emphasizes Time on Task


  Uses time wisely, Proper, effective and intelligent time management, Prevent students from procrastination
• Prompt Feedback


  • Class recitation
  • Quizzes
  • Exams
  • Written works
  • Projects
• Students Pro-actively Manipulate the Content of Learning


  Allows students to talk about the material, write about it, make an outline, apply it, and ask questions
• The education process is a systematic sequential, planned course of action consisting of two interdependent operations: Teaching and Learning
• Teaching


  A deliberative intervention; involves planning and implementing of instructional activities and experiences to meet intended learner outcomes based on teaching plan
• Instruction


  A component of teaching; involves communicating information about specific skill (cognitive, affective or psychomotor)
• Learning


  An action by which knowledge, skills, and attitudes are consciously and unconsciously acquired
• Patient Education


  A process of assisting people to learn health related behaviors (knowledge, skills, attitudes)
• Pillars of the Teaching-Learning Process

  • Teacher
  • Learner
  • Subject-matter
• The nursing process and education process are parallel, although they have different goals and objectives. They form a continuous cycle with the goal of mutually desired behavioral changes through a participatory, shared approach to teaching and learning.
• Nursing Process and Education Process

  • Assessment - Appraise physical and psychosocial needs / Ascertain learning needs, readiness to learn, and learning styles
  • Planning - Develop care plan based on mutual goal setting to meet individual needs / Develop teaching plan based on mutually predetermined behavioral outcomes to meet individual needs
  • Implementation - Carry out nursing case interventions using standard procedures / Perform the act of teaching using specific instructional methods and tools
  • Evaluation - Determine physical and psychosocial outcomes / Determine behavior changes (outcomes) in knowledge, skills, attitudes
• Roles of the Nurse According to Castro


  • Instructional
  • Faculty
  • Individual
• Instructional Roles


  • Plan and organize course
  • Create and maintain a desirable group climate – self discipline
  • Adapt teaching methods and preparing instructional materials – could be devices laptop, cellphone, projectors
  • Motivate and challenge students
  • Resource speaker
  • Explain, classify, interpret
  • Evaluate
  • Demonstrate or explain
  • Supply information
  • Supervise
• Faculty Roles


  • Chairwomen, secretary or member of a committee for planning and coordinating educational offerings
  • Counselor of students – start with active listening and encourage them
  • Researcher – to identify problem and create a solution for that
  • Resource person (outside)
  • Delegate – paired with responsibility, accountability. Clear communication and understanding strengths; clarify goals, assign based on expertise, provide clear instruction
  • Public relations agent – create and maintain positive image for the individual, group, or organization they represent. Make sure you are teaching right.