The end of the semester

As the semester comes to an end, I can truly say that the classes I have with this instructor really pushes me to create or deliver something new and challenging.  This semester, our project was to teach in front of a classroom of nursing students.  This seemed easy to me in the beginning, but as I started to prepare my lesson, I soon realized that it's not all that easy.  It takes a lot of preparation and time to make sure that what you want the students to learn is actually presented in such a way that students engage.  The topic has to be something they can relate to and something that they will actually be making use of in their future.  Then, standing up in from of a class of about ninety students, with the instructor and the director of the MSN program looking on, can make a person pretty nervous.  I prevailed though, and after a while, I realized that I was actually enjoying what I was doing.  It was quite an experience and it made me realize that choices are there for all of us.  We need only decide what we will do with our own education.

Unit 3 Posting

This unit's concept was about learning and how we as educators could be sure that learning took place.  I think that evaluation and assessment of the instructor and the learning material help to identify whether learning was successful.  Asking the students to write or to demonstrate how they would implement the taught material into their life or work could really be beneficial in know if learning took place.  An evaluation at the end of the class would also help in determining how much of the learning took place.  During my teaching assignment for this course, I remember the students asked alot of questions and really participated and got involved.  I took this as a positive, but sometimes that by itself cannot tell whether learning really took place.  Assessing the material and the instructor are good tools to use in determining this.

Unit Two posting

Developing my teaching plan into an online teaching has been challenging for me.  It really made me think of different ways of delivering the information online.  In the classroom, doing a powerpoint, which I did today, seemed easier because the class was there and I could immediately know where or not they were really interested and involved.   Creating it in an online format does away with that, but it does give the student to follow the course on their own pace.   This assignment was pretty interesting.

Unit One Posting

Hello to all my classmates and my instructor for this class! 
I am so looking forward to teaching my class assignment to nursing students who will be graduating next spring.   I am already the nurse educator at my place of employment and it is a position that I am enjoying so much.  To be able to play a pivotal role in strengthening the nursing workforce and serve as a role model is something that I take very seriously.  In this role, I also realize that I am providing the leadership needed to implement evidence-based practice.  The MSN program helps to strengthen me in the ability to accomplish this.."?  Isn't this wild?  So good luck to all of my classmates and can't wait to see you at the finish line.