Teaching Professional Skill | Origin: ED205
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Enhancing Students' Professional Skills --> Teaching Professional Skill
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There is so much to professionalism and critical thinking. Yes professionalism includes preparation, appearance and speech. But it also encompasses knowing and growing in the specific environment. Critical thinking is vital for profesionalism. Teaching students how thik requires the development of activities that require problem solving. Hence, the lesson must be well prepared with room for collaboration, creativity and the time to create a solution. Purposeful planning must be paired with time enough to think, collaborate and create an appropriate solution.
Really emphasizing why something happens or doesn't happen due to an action can help develop creative thinking.
critical thinking helps you ask better questions and find better solutions that is geared towards actual solutions .
It is important to encourage integrity at all times. It is also important to have a learning environment which promotes creativity--such as allowing students to brainstorm and take their time in doing so.
teachers need creativity to engage students in the learning process.
I really appreciated this section on creativity. "Methods used to develop creativity in students include..." the problem solving and discovery learning. I am interested in using this to encourage critical thinking.
Socratic seminars are a great way to enhance students' critical thinking skills and make them competitive in the job market.
Soft skills are an important aspect of the business world and a key component of the Portrait of the Graduate attributes.
Soft skills are an important aspect of the business world and a key component of the Portrait of the Graduate attributes.
What I learned from this lesson is to assist students solve their ethical dilemmas by brainstorming solutions. Help students do self management via live long learning and how to deal with their issues. To get them to become better at critical thinking assist them in their self awareness by actively listening, shifting them to be more involved in their learning, and communicating more effectively.
Writing means learning and is validated in the classroom. Make sure the environment is positive and comfortable. Can do group writing. Provide timely feedback that is linked to the goals of the assignment. Help students understand they will do many drafts before they arrive at the final product.
Giving students the opportunity and resources for creativity in their own learning process is necessary
Critical thinking is in effect trouble shooting a problem and being able to come up with a solution to solve it, This is why I always answer a question with a question that makes the student think about the path to getting the right answer.
Critical thinking can be brought into the classroom by creating an engaging and judgement free environment where students feel encouraged to share their thoughts and opinions
The lack of Critical thinking in student nurses & new graduates has been a concern to the nursing profession. It negatively affects the quality of service & directly relates to the high error rates. One study identified that approximately 88% of novice nurses make medication errors with 30% due to lack of critical thinking. Failure to rescue was reported as high as 37% (Gonzalez, Hsiao, Dees, et.al 2022).
The authors identify that Nurse Educators need to change the way they teach nursing to prepare students to be effective communicators, critical thinkers, & creative problem solvers. Evidence-based practice has been advocated to promote critical thinking.
Teaching students about "Nurse Sensitive Indicators" with discussion can help with developing critical thinking. Discussions on how Evidence-based practice has changed the way both Medicine & Nursing has changed can help develop critical thinking.
It is essential to teach students the importance of personal and standard techniques to enhance critical thinking and apply the knowledge they learned in the classroom and clinical setting.
I like the idea of soft skills and acknowledging that students need to learn teamwork, the value of life long learning, and knowledge of contemporary issues. I also really like the idea that self-directed learners should be "interested and involved." Our program is very self-directed but I think students feel overwhelmed at times and lose sight of being interested and involved. The learning can feel like a task. I think as instructors, it is our job to cheerlead for the students and keep them involved. While completing this module, I was thinking that we could add having students bring in a question they had from the recorded lecture and could trade the question with another student so student's are answering each other's questions. This might help them feel more involved and empowered to utilize their resources to seek out answers.
Good examples of ways in which one might engage and teach; through learning your students. Also, liked how the literature explained how students may learn in different ways.
Great suggestions to foster critical thinking and creativity in my classroom.
