Week 1: Introduction to Teaching and Learning PDF

 Define the following terms - Learning - Teaching - Education process Compare education process with the nursing process Discuss the need for teaching and learning in health care  Systematic, sequential, logical, scientifically based, planned course of action consisting of two m...

 Define the following terms - Learning - Teaching - Education process Compare education process with the nursing process Discuss the need for teaching and learning in health care  Systematic, sequential, logical, scientifically based, planned course of action consisting of two major inter-independent operations:  Deliberate interventions that involve sharing information and experiences to meet intended learner outcomes – Formal or informal  Highly versatile strategy that can be applied in preventing, promoting, maintaining or modifying a wide variety of behaviors in a learner who is receptive, motivated and adequately informed  Is an enduring change in behavior or in the capacity to behave in a given fashion, which results from practice or other forms of experience  Behavioral change or change in the capacity for behavior – Learning involves developing new actions or modifying new ones Behavioral change endures time Learning occurs through practice or other forms of experience  Is that reflective activity that enables the learner to draw upon previous experience to understand and evaluate the presence, so as to shape future action and formulate new knowledge. - J. Abbot  Learning is an active process of relating new meaning to existing meaning, involving the accommodation and assimilation of ideas, skills and thoughts The connections between the past, present and future. – Not always made in linear fashion – Unlearning and relearning play their part All our learning might be varied and modified in the future  Teaching is a major aspect of the nurse’s professional role – Patient education Learn essential knowledge and skills for independent care – Nursing staff/student education Acquire up-to-date knowledge and skills needed to competently and confidently render care  Bastable, S.B. (2008). Nurse as educator: Principles of teaching and learning for Nursing Practice 3rd Ed. Boston, Jones & Bartlett