Mae Dorado

Location: honolulu, hi

About me

Mae Dorado, CMA (AAMA), CPC, CPC-I is the Community Allied Health Education Manager for Hawaii Pacific Health’s Medical Assistant Program. Her teaching background is as a current Lecturer and previously Associate Professor of Medical Assisting and Health Sciences at Kapiolani Community College. She has her Masters Degree with the UH Manoa College of Education in Learning Design and Technology (LTEC) and a Bachelors Degree in Public Administration with an emphasis in Health Care Administration.

As a Certified Medical Assistant through the AAMA and a Certified Professional Medical Coder and Approved Instructor with the AAPC for the past 19 years, her strength is in teaching clinical and administrative skills to both high school and college students.

Interests

reading novels, watching movies, hiking, off-roading and ziplining

Skills

typing, organizing events, online tech/tools, teaching both face-to-face and online, certified in cpr/fa and medical coding

Activity

Mae Dorado

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Learning Skills Online | Origin: EL121

Reasoning skills are important for students to acquire to improve on decision making, think through problems and propose their own solutions to understand how options can be used in different settings. I find that my high school students are unable to recognize when something is missing or inadequate in a process. It is important for teachers to provide students with opportunities to acquire these skills by not giving them the answers and to let students discover the why and how on their own.

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Evaluating Rubrics | Origin: EL109

I am always looking for ways to generate student engagement and enhance student motivation, interest, and performance. I will be using the suggestion of having my students develop rubrics to assess their learning and/or their peers' learning. It will be valuable to connecting the course outcomes to the project objectives and if they are working in groups, the assessment may also improve teamwork and cooperation.

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Building and Testing the Rubric | Origin: EL109

Evaluating your rubrics for effectiveness is essential before you actually use it; however, I have found situations occur that throw a curve ball into the use. I wait to release grades until I have graded all students for fairness and consistency across the board. Sometimes I am actually lenient to the first students to help me not to be too strict in my assessments.

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Issues When Using Rubrics | Origin: EL109

I found that peer assessments are effective to receiving feedback to help me make improvements to my rubrics.

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Purposes and Roles of Rubrics | Origin: EL109

What really resonated with me was that rubrics can be time consuming, but personally well worth the time to develop. When I have used them...I use trial and error to make improvements to my rubrics till I have factored all situations and circumstances.

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How Do You Lead? |Origin: LS102

I was particularly interested in the various leadership styles. I want to be a good leader and not one that my employees do not like or do not respect, from experience I am learning what works and does not work for others, but also understand that I cannot make EVERYONE happy. I have to stay balanced, consistent and fair. I look forward to learning more and always looking at how to improve.

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WLMS for Course Revisions | Origin: EL112

I find formative course evaluations provide the instructor with opportunities to adjust the course to meet students’ needs. Student needs have changed for me every semester and I like to discover this at the start of the semester by exploring learning styles. Once piece of advice that I found valuable, and I plan to incorporate, is online instructors should ask students approximately every 3-5 weeks what they would like the instructor to stop doing, start doing, and continue to do to help me run the course more efficiently.

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WLMS for Communicating and Collaborating | Origin: EL112

I work with high school students and teach college level medical assisting curriculum. The last few groups of students that I have worked with lacked experiences, which is something I struggle with every year. Thus, I have experienced that sharing of experiences and collaborating in group discussions within a synchronous environment is a great way to encourage confidence and learn from each other. Helping my students to feel comfortable about sharing their thoughts and interacting with peers is something that resonated with me after reading this section.

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WLMS to Develop the Learning Environment | Origin: EL112

In my experience with teaching online courses, it is necessary to have excellent time management skills to allocate adequate amounts of time for online work. I feel that teaching online is more time consuming than teaching a face-to-face course, because of the extra time it takes to communicate with the students or to guide students that are not comfortable with the online environment and technology.

I agree with what I read in that " Therefore, the role of online instructor will include offline tasks as well as online tasks." and if you are organized, you can stick to the task… >>>

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Value Added Assessment | Origin: EL106

There are several benefits to value-added assessments, provides a clearer accountability measure for instructors, can determine how well students are progressing, recognize growth, identify failures and successes. I find this is good in helping me to adjust the way I teach my classes, it is always different due to varying student ability levels and prior knowledge. It helps me to feel good about the uses of collaboration in my assignments to help students and instructors learn from each other.

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