1994. 288 pp., illustrated

Your one-stop shop for immediately usable, proven interactive exercises that engage the audience and make your presentation lively and entertaining! MORE INSTANT TEACHING TOOLS contains easily replicated interactive teaching exercises specifically for health care educators. All of the exercises have been field tested for effectiveness, time, and participant satisfaction. Exercises are designed to promote student/participant involvement and self-directed learning. A game show format is used for many of the exercises, making learning fun and memorable. It features a stimulating, highly visual format and easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for each exercise. All exercises are brief and inexpensive, requiring no elaborate props or preparation time. Icons identify the topic, tools needed, time, preparation, implementation, and educator secrets. * Provides immediately usable, proven interactive exercises to make your presentation more lively, interactive, and entertaining * Contains exercises which have been field-tested for effectiveness, time, and participant satisfaction to ensure a successful teaching and learning experience * Provides exercises which have been contributed by health care educators from a variety of disciplines including nursing, allied health, dietary, and EMS to provide current and timely health care teaching * Designed to promote student/participant involvement and self-directed learning to provide a fun learning experience * Includes ready-to-use pages that can be photocopied for immediate use to make preparation easy and time efficient

For healthcare professionals, clinical education is foundational to the learning process. However, balancing safe patient care with supportive learning opportunities for students can be challenging for instructors and the complex social context of clinical learning environments makes intentional teaching approaches essential. Clinical instructors require advanced teaching knowledge and skills as learners are often carrying out interventions on real people in unpredictable environments. Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions is an indispensable guide for educators in the health professions. Interspersed with creative strategies and notes from the field by clinical teachers who offer practical suggestions, this volume equips healthcare educators with sound pedagogical theory. The authors focus on the importance of personal philosophies, resilience, and professional socialization while evaluating the current practices in clinical learning environments from technology to assessment and evaluation. This book provides instructors with the tools to influence both student success and the quality of care provided by future practitioners.

Concluding a two-year review and revision process supported by the American Cancer Society and conducted by an expert panel of health education professionals, this second edition of the National Health Education Standards is the foremost reference in establishing, promoting, and supporting health-enhancing behaviors for students in all grade levels. These guidelines and standards provide a framework for teachers, administrators, and policy makers in designing or selecting curricula, allocating instructional resources, and assessing student achievement and progress; provide students, families, and communities with concrete expectations for health education; and advocate for quality health education in schools, including primary cancer prevention for children and youth.

This text answers questions about the basics of nursing staff development, such as roles and responsibilities, educational designs, and learning styles, as well as advanced topics such as accreditation/approval and certification. Written in a controversial style, readers can quickly identify topics of interest.

“A wealth of good ideas” for using technology in education, from increasing student engagement to managing hybrid and distance learning (Teachers College Record). How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give online tests and, if so, how can I be sure of the integrity of the students’ work? These are some of the questions that instructors raise as technology becomes an integral part of the educational experience. In Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology, award-winning instructors representing a wide range of academic disciplines describe their strategies for employing technology to achieve learning objectives. They include tips on using just-in-time teaching, wikis, clickers, YouTube, blogging, and GIS, to name just a few. An accompanying interactive website enhances the value of this innovative tool.

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