Hello Michael,
I teach med/surg to the nursing students, and I found that I use power points to preview, and also have a pre-test, and we disucss. I also call upon the students to pull their past experience from their clinicals to provide a detailed patient care problem they experienced - or the patient with a specific diagnosis we are focusing on for that lecture day. Then I flip the class - I use case studies, and the students also demonstrate, or role play the content. the last thing I do is I assign the groups to make up questions for their class mates (this enforces the students to read a dense section of the chapter). The final part of the teaching is that I return to the power points from the chapter.
As an ice breaker - I use Kahoot -- and these questions are NCLEX based questions. Sometimes I use music and we have a dance line to answer questions on the white board (another ice breaker) -- student dances up to the board to answer a question -- this helps them with the select all that apply questions. By the end of the lecture - they have read the entire chapter.
This is an 8 hour class, and the conent is dense and can be very dry, so I must be creative and keep the students engaged.
I too am a student and work full time and understand that time is valuable and limited to free time.
Maureen
