Creating a Positive Learning Environment

Copyright 2008 by The Health Alliance of MidAmerica LLC

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Objectives Integrate active learning best practices to:

• Facilitate students’ critical thinking

• Stimulate learning

• Create a positive learning environment

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Active Learning Strategies to Consider Stories and Cases Using Questions Building on Reflection Writing to Learn Using Technology Tools Affirming and Challenging (Feedback)

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Clinical Faculty, Basic Guide Social Significance, naming your product Ultimacy, using best practices Collegiality, using your resources

(Who are you going to call when you don’t know what to do?)

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Measures to Facilitate Critical Thinking

What do we already know?

What do we need to know about critical thinking?

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Critical Thinking Is: Purposeful, outcomes-directed Driven by patient, family, community needs Based on principles of the nursing process

and scientific method

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Critical Thinking Requires knowledge, skills, experience, and

commitment to developing CT Is guided by professional standards and ethics Makes the most of human potential Reevaluates and strives to improve

- Alfaro-LeFevre, R. (2004)

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Active Learning What do we already know? What do we need to know

about active learning?

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Active Learning “Just do it” approach

Focus on making a good “fit” between student learning expectations and chosen assignments

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Stories and Cases: Benefits Engage and Convey Information Promote Connectedness Promote Problem Solving (what next?) Share varying points of view (patient, family,

healthcare provider perspectives)

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Stories and Cases: Examples Once upon a time…. Stories, learning, change intertwined Student stories Cases Using stories for difficult scenarios What’s wrong with this picture?

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Using Questions

Good teaching = good communication Questions facilitate and assess learning Questions bring life to critical thinking Modeling inquiry promotes student inquiry What if?

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General Question Guidelines Learning demonstrated as:

• Cognitive learning

• Psychomotor learning

• Affective learning

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Assessing Cognitive Knowledge: Bloom’s Taxonomy Knowledge – Recalling

• Remembering facts and learned information Comprehension – Understanding

• Explaining and describing Application – Problem Solving

• Using information in new settings

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Assessing Cognitive Knowledge: Bloom’s Taxonomy Analysis – Exploring patterns and meanings

• Examining component parts Synthesis – Creating

• Combining ideas into a new statement Evaluation – Judging

• Making an evaluation based on criteria

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Example: Using a Handout Questions as a teaching tool Sample strategies

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Further Tools for Active Learning Reflection Writing to Learn Technology Tools Feedback

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Reflection: Benefits Students consider their experiences Build on previous experiences Gain self-evaluation skills

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Reflection: Examples

Mental rehearsals

• Cognitive framing Hindsight 20/20

• Reflecting on what

you have learned Self-assessments

• Goal setting

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Writing to Learn: Benefits Writing as thinking Reflective component to

discover and shape meaning

Build on what already know Remember and process

information

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Writing to Learn: Examples Selected tools

and strategies Benner’s model

to create clinical narratives

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Technology Tools: Benefits Manage rapid information turnover

• Rote memorization no longer adequate Enhance clinical learning

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Selected Tools and Strategies Clinical learning labs PDAs (Getting started, Expert of the day) Web-based conferencing

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Feedback: Affirming and Challenging Communication of information that assists the

student to reflect/interact with the information and construct self-knowledge relevant to course learning and to set further learning goals

- Bonnel, W. (2005)

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Feedback: Affirming and Challenging Coaching students to seek and use feedback Using qualitative tools to synthesize data for

feedback (interview, observation, record review) Challenging students

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Active Learning Strategies to Consider Stories and Cases Using Questions Building on Reflection Writing to Learn Using Technology Tools Affirming and Challenging (Feedback)

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Summary: Creating a Positive Learning Environment Integrate active learning

best practices to:

• Facilitate critical thinking in clinical settings

• Stimulate learning

• Create a positive learning environment

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Resource Section See attached resources

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