Teaching Styles Learning Styles

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Teaching Styles/ Learning Styles

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Presentation based on materials from
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Goals

• Discuss the principles of adult learning
• Use a teaching styles questionnaire to assess
  your teaching style preferences.
• Review how different styles promote teaching of
  knowledge, attitudes and skills.
• Develop a strategy for using a learning style
  questionnaire in your teaching.

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Question

• What are the best, most effective teaching styles?

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Answer

• There are no best teaching styles.
• Different styles and techniques serve different
  functions.
• We all have individual teaching styles
  preferences.

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Teaching Styles Self-Assessment Tool

• Think about your preferred method of clinical
  teaching.
• Each item is a statement from a preceptor.
• As your read each item consider how well this
  item fits with your preferred style.
• Rate your comfort with the style on the
  5-point scale.

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Teaching Styles

• Andragogy versus pedagogy
• Adult learning style versus
• Child-like learning style

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Pedagogy vs. Andragogy
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Question

• If almost all of our learners are adults,
  why are are they not all adult learners?

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Teaching Styles Andragogy vs. Pedagogy

• Questions 1- 6
• Question 1 Weve got a few minutes now Ill
  give you my 10 minute talk on ___________.
• Question 2 What are the seven causes of
  ______________?
• Question 3 ________ is an important and common
  problem. Read this chapter so that you will know
  more about it.

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Teaching Styles Andragogy vs. Pedagogy

• Questions 1- 6
• Question 4 Weve got a few minutes now What
  would you like to discuss?
• Question 5 We saw two patients with _________
  today. What useful things did you learn and what
  questions remain?
• Question 6 Look carefully at your knowledge
  base and you clinical skills and let me know
  tomorrow what needs improvement and how we can
  work on that over the remaining 3 weeks.

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Knowledge,Attitudes and Skills

• Assessing Knowledge

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Teaching Styles
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Teaching Styles Assessing Knowledge

• Question 7 What is the drug of choice for
  _____________?
• Question 8 Amoxicillin is an option for that
  purpose, but in my experience increasing
  resistance patterns have made trimethoprim/
  sulfamethoxazole a better choice.
• Question 9 How did you arrive at that diagnosis
  and why?
• Question 10 O. K. So your working diagnosis for
  this patient is _____________. What would you
  recommend for treatment and why?

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Teaching Styles Assessing Knowledge

• Question 11 What if the x-ray were normal?
  Would that change your diagnosis?
• Question 12 Mr. Clyburn shared some difficult
  information about his illness with you. How did
  that make you feel?

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Knowledge,Attitudes and Skills

• Assessing Attitudes

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Teaching Styles Assessing Attitudes

• Question 12 Mr. Clyburn shared some difficult
  information about his illness with you. How did
  that make you feel?
• Question 13 There is a wide variety of opinions
  on how to approach that ethical situation. What
  do you think you would do?
• Question 14 You seem to be having difficulty in
  dealing with this patient. What buttons do you
  think this situation might be pushing for you?

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Teaching StylesModeling Professional Attitudes

• Be Capable Demonstrate your belief in competency
  and excellence in providing the best possible
  care to your patients.
• Be Sensitive Demonstrate sensitivity to patient
  concerns as well as to the anxiety and needs of
  the learner.
• Be Enthusiastic Sharing your enthusiasm for
  patient care, teaching and learning can produce
  more enthusiastic (and fun) learners.
• Be Yourself Demonstrating your approach to
  patient care and honestly dealing with the
  uncertainty and ambiguity of clinical care.

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Knowledge,Attitudes and Skills

• Assessing Skills

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Teaching Styles Teaching Skills

• Demonstrate the skill
• Supervise the learner
• Monitor the learner
• Assist the learner

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Teaching Styles Assessing Skills

• Question 16 Watch my technique on this patient
  and Ill supervise you for the next.
• Question 17 I know youve not done this before
  but Ill be right there to help you.?
• Question 18 Youve done it before? OK. Ill
  watch you do it.

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Teaching Styles and Personality Preferences

• Everyone has their own personality and
  preferences.

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Teaching Styles and Personality Preferences

• Question 19 I feel comfortable and at home
  very quickly in new environments.
• Question 20 It takes me a while to adapt and
  feel comfortable in new environments.
• Question 21 I enjoy being asked questions on
  the spur of the moment.
• Question 22 When possible, I prefer the
  opportunity to think about or research a question
  before answering.

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Using the Tools

• Assess yourself.
• Have learner complete form at beginning of
  rotation.
• Compare forms for similarities and differences.
• Discuss with learner.
• Experiment with different styles.

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Teaching Styles

• No one style is better than another.
• No one uses one style all the time.
• Can foster mutual growth and increased
  flexibility for learner and preceptor.
• Ultimate Goal Better learning experience for all.