Dawn Comerford

It is important to familiarize yourself with the course content even if it is familiar to you. Know how to access everything regarding the class, grading, discussions, responding to posts and deleting posts. 

It is important to establish and set clear expectations at the beginning of the class, review the assignments, due dates, and policies with the students. 

I learned as an instructor to remain neutral and not let the students frustrations about things out of my control, such as, parking, financial aid get away from the learning environment. I also learned that not all students learn the same way and to remind myself to understand what motivates them to learn. "What is their why"

I learned the four types of classroom management and identified that I am somewhere between a controlling style and a guide. I will adjust and learn to manage the classroom in a more guided style but also understand sometimes a shift in management style is also beneficial. I also learned that students thrive in a well-organized and planned out classroom that can adjust and change as needed. 

I learned ways to reinforce a particular difficult concept for my students to learn by utilizing different strategies to help them retain the information such as; the pizza blood gas concept. 

Actively involving students in projects can help the students retain or pay attention in a manner that is better to learn. I would however caution to learn the students learning style some of these examples might not work for some students. 

I want to know if students and instructors seeing staff in facilities doing something wrong or performing improper hygiene should be confronted in a professional manner is appropriate? I work for a healthcare system where the culture is see something say something. 

I really like the ideas of the BINGO for vitals, nurse interventions, and disease processes. I also like the idea of giving them cue cards to answer through out the day. I am not sure non-verbal hand gestures are the best. In a world of transparency and patients knowing students are taking care of them. It could be reassuring that not only the facility, but the instructors are showing a culture of do no harm but reassure that the school is doing everything to teach proper techniques to our students. 

I learned that actively involving the students will go far in them remembering how to do things or where they can find critical supplies when performing tasks. I like the idea of the clock as well as the assessment group by dividing the students into groups and giving them a timed task. 

I learned that motivation is key to student learning. The reason the student want's to learn and the "why" they are in school would work especially if they are an older student returning to the educational environment. Offering different types of motivation throughout the classroom whether it is extrinsic or intrinsic will provide positive results in the learning environment as well.