Hey 5202! I know it's another week of student presentations
but I wanted to record a quick video to say
hello to you all.
Hi!
Hello!
Salut!
Bonjour!
And I also wanted to introduce you all to
to our new TA, Helga.
I know you haven't seen this smiling face
in weeks so I wanted to assure you all that
I'm still here.
I'm just lurking in the shadows of Brightspace
while your classmates do their presentations.
I hope you're all enjoying the student presentations
because I sure am.
As of recording this, we have covered
reflective learning,
experiential learning,
PBL,
games and creativity,
role play,
and mentoring & coaching.
And of course eLearning when I decided to kick off
the assignments.
And this week we're learning about lectures
and narratives and storytelling.
And we still have simulation to look forward to this semester.
As a class, we've been engaging in a variety of different
activities to experience and become more familiar
with these different teaching strategies.
So for example, we've made mnemonics,
we've engaged in reflective practice,
used PBL to plan a wellness centre,
made memes and a word cloud,
analyzed examples of role play,
and reflected on mentorship in our own
teaching and learning.
And this week you're going to be writing your
own short narratives yourself,
And the Lectures Group is going to have you up and
away from your computer screens for part of their activity.
Our classmates have also put together some really neat
handouts that completely exceeded my expectations
when I was writing the syllabus.
So well done everyone!
I've started receiving some emails about the
final assignment, so I thought it might be
good to touch on that this week.
The final assignment is a summary paper
which is worth 35% of your mark
and is due on April 4th.
The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with
a practical summary of a teaching strategy
you may want to use in your own professional
or educational context.
So for this assignment I would hope that you would pick
a teaching strategy that you're likely to use in the future.
Now, there are a few different ways you can approach
this assignment both from a content and format perspective.
For format, the default option (if you will)
is an 8-10 page paper.
And there are a couple of examples of previous papers
from this class on Brightspace in the Assignments folder.
So if you want to see how previous students
have approached this assignment, you can do so.
However, as I mentioned in the syllabus
other formats are possible for this assignment.
Such as - but not necessarily limited to -
A website, a series of blog posts,
YouTube video(s), and perhaps other ideas that you may
have come up with that I haven't even considered.
For traditional papers, the intended audience
realistically is usually the prof who's marking the paper.
In this case me!
However, with an alternative format you get to pick
your intended audience.
For example, you may choose to target other educators,
clinicians, residents, students, patients.
It's really up to you.
Another aspect of the assignment where there's some
flexibility is the actual content of your assignment.
So in the syllabus I outline three major assignment components.
A summary of the teaching strategy.
A discussion about the application of this teaching
strategy to your own professional
or educational context.
And this includes any potential problems you may foresee.
And then a description of an actual, concrete lesson
or learning experience where you could use this
teaching strategy in your professional or educational context.
Now this description doesn't have to be length,
it doesn't have to be perfect.
You don't have to have a full lesson plan.
However, I just want to see some link
between the context that you've described and how
you think you could use this teaching strategy.
Now where the major flexibility in this assignment comes in
is this last component: Use in a learning experience.
If you have a real learning experience where you'd
like to use this teaching strategy
and you would like to develop it for this assignment,
I say go for it!
The more practical we can make this for you folks
the better!
Now, I still need to see elements of the other two components,
but we can negotiate what this would look like together.
So for example, you may want to plan out
a simulation for your workplace.
Or maybe you wanna create a website about reflection
for nursing students.
If you're interested in doing an alternative format
or changing up the content a bit,
please email me ahead of time.
This way we can make sure you're still fulfilling
course requirements,
and we can also negotiate how I'm going to evaluate
your assignment.
And before ending this I wanted to
quickly touch on our last few modules.
You know, the ones where you're back to seeing
this face every week!
In the last three weeks we're going to be discussing
interprofessional education,
space and place,
and feedback and debriefing.
Now, I haven't finalized my lectures for these weeks yet
and so there's still some time for me to change this
around and my planned activities.
So if you have any burning questions about these topics
- whether they be questions specifically for me
or questions you maybe want to discuss as a group -
please email me over the next few weeks.
And that's all for now, folks!
Helga and I hope that wherever you are
you're keeping warm.
And for those of you out in Vancouver,
please don't send me emails about how flowers are
already starting to bloom.
I get enough of those taunts from my brother.
So enjoy this week's activities,
and as always I will see you all online.