Active Learning Resources & E-books
- Vanderbilt Active Learninghttps://cft.vanderbilt.edu/active-learning/
- University of Michigan Active LearningActive Learning ready to use examples
Human Simulation for Nursing and Health Professions by ISBN: 0826106692Publication Date: 2011-07-01Active learning via cases study format vis-a-vis SIMS. The text takes the reader step-by-step through the process of planning, organizing, implementing, and maintaining a simulation lab along with blueprints for case studies and active learning.
Approaches to Creativity by ISBN: 0335243762Publication Date: 2012-10-01See Chapter 16 "Tools for Creativity" If nearly 80% of health problems are due to health behavior, how due our preconceived notions shape our delivery of interventions, including patient education?
- Basic instructor habits to keep students engagedColorado University best practices for teaching STEM
- Teaching Study SkillsHarvard evidence-based practices for studying smarter
- SENSE LUSCIOUS (Neuroscience Approach)The Art of Changing the Brain -Enriching Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning
The Student Engagement Handbook by ISBN: 1781904235Publication Date: 2013-11-05This book highlights some of the national and global agendas and issues, from emerging sectors, to the meaning of student engagement for different stakeholders. It provides a backdrop to themes of student engagement as well as examples of innovative and inspiring means of engaging with students in practice, empowering them to take responsibility within decision-making processes and enabling them to lead and deliver change.
Journal Keeping : How to Use Reflective Writing for Effective Learning, Teaching, Professional Insight, and Positive Change by ISBN: 1579222161Publication Date: 2009-04-21One of the most powerful ways to learn, reflect and make sense of our lives is through journal keeping. This book presents the potential uses and benefits of journals for personal and professional development--particularly for those in academic life; and demonstrates journals' potential to foster college students' learning, fluency and voice, and creative thinking. In professional life, a journal helps to organize, prioritize and address the many expectations of a faculty member's or administrator's roles. Journals are effective for developing time management skills, building problem-solving skills, fostering insight, and decreasing stress.
- Positive & Negative Feedback in Real-timePractice feedback throughout your classroom time to maintain high efficacy & promote engagement & allow students to let go of fear of being wrong
- The lived experience of an at-risk nursing student (Dissertation)Sometimes the best predictors fail our best students. Add to your reflective teaching repertoire & guard against quick judgement (LENGTHY)
- Concept MapsBreak up lecture with tactical use of concept map challenges and games. Students can fill in, create, or compete for the best concept map or flowchart for decision-making or process or best practice.
(Password is the city where we have graduation) - Storyboards as a tactical teaching methodEmploy storyboards, as a tactic for graphic presentation of teaching "quality improvement process" - a professional development action expected of working nurses.
(Password is the city where we have graduation) - Skill-a-thonBreak up lecture with tactical use of skills challenges and games.
(Password is the city where we have graduation) - Stories as a tactical teaching methodLeverage phones & social media platforms (e.g. Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram) to introduce "stories" as a didactic tactic to have students learn, create, and co-teach chapter learning outcomes.
(Password is the city where we have graduation) - Texting as a tactical teaching methodBreak up lecture with tactical use of texting.
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