Week 1 Discussion 1

The diversity of both students and faculty poses important considerations for teaching and learning. Reflect on the characteristic differences in gender, race, and culture, as well as the differences among the diverse generations in todays nursing education classroom. When considering your personal philosophy of teaching, discuss how you might use these characteristic differences and diverse backgrounds and experiences of todays nursing students as a teaching tool to connect students to nursing content and increase their understanding. In other words, how might you incorporate the background and experiences of your students into your teaching methods to enhance the ability of all students in your classroom to think critically and problem solve patient-care issues?

Week 1 Discussion 2

Nursing faculty is responsible for creating an environment that is conducive to learning and accommodates the multiple learning styles and abilities of students. As a nurse educator, how might you design learning experiences for class and clinical environments to promote positive and effective learning for all students? Do you think students should use their preferred learning styles and perhaps risk becoming rigid and unable to learn in different ways (should a situation demand a different learning style)? Or should educators encourage students to be open to different methods of learning, moving them away from their comfort zones?

Week 2 Discussion 1

As you view the video about clinical teaching and learning, there are a number of things to consider. Students need and want opportunities to learn and participate as part of the healthcare team. If ignored or not included in inpatient care, they become frustrated and feel cheated by the clinical experience. The nursing faculty should guide the clinical learning process, assist students with administering medications and treatments when needed and ensure that students are learning. Students view the RN preceptor as the clinical expert and role model, as well as the person nursing students look up to.

Identify the problems and challenges presented in the video and discuss how you would respond to and handle the problems and challenges from 1) the faculty role 2) the RN preceptor role, and 3) the student role.

Week 2 Discussion 2

As you read this weeks assignments, examine your own beliefs about the studentfaculty relationship and discuss the effects that your beliefs and practices may have on the teaching-learning process, the academic performance of your students, and your students behavior. What are your beliefs about interactions with students who are failing? How do you (or will you) deal with issues related to student misconduct and academic dishonesty? What are your thoughts related to managing honor code violations and substance abuse problems? How do your responses to these questions correlate with your personal teaching philosophy?

Week 3 Discussion 1

Considering todays forces, trends, and issues that influence curriculum development and the changing demands in healthcare delivery, discuss how you think the nursing curricula needs to change in order to prepare nurse graduates for their future role as practicing nurses. Cite two current references (published within the last five years) to support your discussion.

Week 3 Discussion 2

Revisit your personal philosophy of teaching. What learning strategies (discussed in chapter 7) that are influenced by your personal philosophy of teaching might you integrate into the curricula? Discuss how the learning strategies you described align with your personal philosophy of teaching.

Week 4 Discussion 1

You should have completed your learning style inventoryLinks to an external site. during week 1. Now complete the teaching style inventoryLinks to an external site.. How does your learning style compare to your teaching style?

Week 4 Discussion 2

Using the hierarchical order of Blooms taxonomy for the cognitive domain, develop a learning objective related to a selected nursing course for each of the six categories of cognitive skills: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Comment on at least two other students postings to enhance or improve learning outcomes.

Week 5 Discussion 1

After viewing the video on classroom management, discuss the student behavior issues that were presented. How could the instructor have managed those issues and the classroom environment in a way that would positively contribute to learning and proactively respond to student misconduct?

Week 5 Discussion 2

Next, identify ineffective teachinglearning strategies presented in the video, and discuss effective strategies the instructor could have implemented instead to avoid learning difficulties and promote critical thinking and active learning.

Incivility and bullying occur in the classroom as well as the clinical environment in a number of ways: 1) student to student, 2) student to faculty, 3) faculty to faculty, and 4) faculty to student. Incivility and bullying not only affect the well-being of the people involved, but it also puts patient safety at risk. Post your thoughts on some of the causes of incivility and bullying in the classroom and clinical environments, and suggest approaches that can be used to avoid this type of behavior.

Week 6 Discussion 1

As you view the video about clinical teaching and learning a second time, consider some of the challenges that clinical instructors can face. What strategies can clinical instructors use to overcome the following challenges: 1) time pressures, 2) fewer patients, 3) shorter hospital stays, 4) limited availability and variety of learning opportunities, and 5) the varied needs and abilities of students.

Week 6 Discussion 2

Select two essential psychomotor skills for a clinical course or courses in nursing. Discuss how you might collaborate with an LRC person to facilitate student performance with the skills you selected.

Week 7 Discussion 1

Revisit the two essential psychomotor skills that you selected for your discussion posting during week 6. What are two strategies you might use to assess the students learning outcomes and improve learning?

Week 7 Discussion 2

After viewing the video of the student disagreeing with the grade he received, discuss each of the responses given by the faculty. In your discussion, include how each response facilitated or hindered the quality of interaction between the instructor and the student. How would you have handled this situation?

Week 8 Discussion 1

What is your position on assigning grades based on a curve (a relative scale)? Explain and defend your position.

Week 8 Discussion 2

Clinical performance evaluation is subjective and involves the judgments of the evaluator. It is filtered by the evaluators perspective, values, and biases. With this in mind, select three clinical evaluation strategies that you believe are fair and accurate in order to measure student learning, and determine their competency and safety in the clinical setting. Explain your rationale for why you selected each of the strategies, and how they align with your personal philosophy of teaching. Make sure the strategies that you selected include ways to evaluate students cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains of learning.