Teaching Health Careers Education Tools for Classroom Success

by Ruple, Judith A; Dalton, Alice Twink; Lee, William W

• ISBN13: 9780323042567
• ISBN10: 0323042562
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-12
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

Teaching Health Careers Education: Tools for Classroom Success helps healthcare professionals transition from practice into capable educators providing quality knowledge to a classroom of students. Novice and experienced educators alike will benefit from information on basic procedures, processes, and methods of teaching. Fifteen self-contained, yet comprehensive, modules explore each topic area. This approachable text is packed with helpful features, such as: Key Terms, learning Objectives, References, lists for further reading, and more. Module organization allows you to tailor the book to fit your individualized needs.Conversational and friendly tone makes the various educational theories and legal terms easy to understand.Evolve Learning Resources provide invaluable resources for novice instructors, including strategies for classroom management, action verbs for creating objectives and goals, additional lesson plans, learning contracts, rubrics and evaluation forms, test item construction tips, and useful Internet sites.Case Studies and Discussion Questions apply the information to real-life situations and foster discussion and critical thinkingTeaching Tips provide additional notes and suggestions on how to apply the information to your classroom.

Table of Contents

Welcome to the Health Career Classroom

Roles and Responsibilities of Healthcare Instructors

Honolulu Community College (1999) Syllabus Suggested Form

Legal Issues in Education

Creating a Positive Classroom Environment

Classroom Management

How Adults Learn

Goals and Objectives

Lesson Plans

Sample Lesson Plan Formats

Needs Assessment

Presentation Techniques

Communication Skills

Sample Learning Contract

Answers to Case Study Listening Activity

Facilitating and Enhancing Thinking

Generic Performance Rubric Template

Evaluation Rubric for Higher-Order Thinking

Questions to Guide the Selection of the Thinking Skills/Reasoning Process to Incorporate into a Lesson

Suggested Questions to Use with Patient Scenarios

Facilitation Techniques

Answers to Directed and Non-Directed Questions Activity

Answers to Active Listening Activity

How to Teach Using Case Studies

Sample Case Studies and Case Questions

Cameron & Monroe's (2007) Spinal Cord Injury Case Study

Teaching Psychomotor Skills

Task Analysis for Bag-Mask Skill: Use of Bag-Mask to Ventilate an Apneic Patient

Sample Skills Grids

Summary of Neurobiological Research

Using Games in the Classroom

Evaluation and Remediation

Glossary

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