Welcome to Pediatrics!!

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Welcome to Pediatrics!!
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Syllabus Review

• Webpage
• www.pediatrics.yolasite.com
• Office Hours
• Email
• Our response time
• Email on the weekends

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• Course Activities
• Mixture of activities
• Lecture, Case Studies, Homework, Class Discussion
• Course Grade
• Exams
• Assignments
• Final

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• Exam policy
• One make up, NOT for final
• Must call BEFORE exam
• May review exams for 1 week after exam
• There will not be an in class review due to time
  constraints

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Text Books
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Assignments

• In class case studies
• Homework assignments
• In class assignments
• All assignments must be turned in on time
• NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED

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Teaching Style

• Team teaching
• We will both be active in lecture and clinic
• Can come to either of us for questions
• Variety of classroom activities
• Lecture
• Case studies
• Podcasts
• Concept maps
• A lot of hands on learning versus straight
  lecture
• It will be different!! But give it a chance and
  let us guide you through the process.
• Reaching all learning styles

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Rationale Behind Teaching Methods

• Research has shown that Adult learners prefer
  experiential learning and self directed learning
• What is self directed learning?
• Self-directed learning has been described as "a
  process in which individuals take the initiative,
  with or without the help of others," to diagnose
  their learning needs, formulate learning goals,
  identify resources for learning, select and
  implement learning strategies, and evaluate
  learning outcomes (Knowles 1975).
• According to Knowles, Learning is more
  meaningful and purposeful, with greater
  motivation resulting in longer retention

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• Lunyk-Child (2001) found that students undergo a
  transformation that begins with negative feelings
  but ends with confidence and skills in
  self-direction and during this transformation it
  is the responsibility of teachers to provide
  student support
• It is our job to teach you how to learn this way
  and to help you along the way. We are here to
  HELP!!

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• Nurses need to be able to manage and monitor
  their own learning. This means that professional
  nurses engaged in continuous learning should have
  the ability to be self directed. The use of
  problem based learning as an instructional
  methodology in undergraduate nursing curricula
  has been identified as one way to facilitate the
  development of nursing students abilities to
  become self directed in learning (Williams,B.
  2001).