NSG4028 Concepts of Teaching & Learning
Week 1 Discussion
Topic 1
Critique your Personal Education Philosophy
a. Reflect on your personal education experiences and how you have developed your unique education philosophy.
b. Provide examples of positive learning experiences.
Topic 2
Learning Theories and Personal Motivation
a. Describe learning theories as they relate to your personal motivation to successfully increase your nursing knowledge.
b. Discuss potential barriers to learning.
NSG4028 Concepts of Teaching & Learning
Week 4 Discussion
Post your initial response to one of the two topics below.
Topic 1
Staff Education
a. Create a lesson about cultural diversity in the workforce.
b. Explain how you would motivate your audience.
c. Discuss potential barriers to learning.
Topic 2
Patient Education
a. Create a lesson pertaining to caring for a patient with COPD who is from another culture.
b. Discuss potential barriers and solutions
c. Address learning evaluation methods.
NSG4028 Concepts of Teaching & Learning
Week 5 Discussion
Post your initial response to one of the two topics below.
Topic 1
Mentoring
a. Provide examples of previous mentors who have enhanced your learning experiences.
b. Describe methods utilized by your mentors to improve educational experiences.
c. Discuss the impact on your nursing practice.
Topic 2
Formative and Summative Learning Assessment
a. Create a teaching scenario that includes formative and summative learning assessments.
b. Discuss how you would communicate your findings with the learner.
c. Provide examples of positive vs discouraging learner feedback.
NSG4028 Concepts of Teaching & Learning
Week 2 Project
Course Project—Part 1
In a Microsoft Word document of 5-6 pages formatted in APA style, develop the introduction for your project. Please note that the title and reference pages should not be included in the total page count of your paper. Be sure to focus on one (1) disease but three (3) audiences (patient, family and staff development). The introduction should:
Contain the title of the lesson.
Identify and describe the learners.
Describe the educational setting:
Staff development
Patient education
Family education
Include learner assessments:
Educational level
Developmental level
Readiness to learn, and so forth.
Provide a purpose and rationale for selecting the topic/disease.
Describe the philosophical or theoretical basis for teaching approaches used in the lesson.
Support criteria with relevant examples and journal articles.
On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format. Helpful APA guides and resources are available in the South University Online Library. Below are guides that are located in the library and can be accessed and downloaded via the South University Online Citation Resources: APA Style page. The American Psychological Association website also provides detailed guidance on formatting, citations, and references at APA Style.
• APA Citation Helper
• APA Citations Quick Sheet
• APA-Style Formatting Guidelines for a Written Essay
• Basic Essay Template
Submission Details:
• Name your document SU_NSG4028_W2_Project_LastName_FirstInitial
• Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.
NSG4028 Concepts of Teaching & Learning
Week 4 Project
Course Project—Part 2
Instructional Unit: Goals, Objectives, and the Teaching Plans
In a Microsoft Word document of 6-7 pages formatted in APA style, submit your instructional unit, which should include three lesson plans: one focused on patient education, one on family education, and one on staff development. Remember, your plans should demonstrate a logical approach to teaching, communicate what is to be taught and how, and outline how objectives are to be evaluated. Click here for a refresher on what each final lesson should include.
Building on the work that you started in Week 2, for all three groups of learners:
Write two broad instructional goals for the educational experience for each group.
For each learner group, write at least one learning objective related to each of the domains of Bloom’s taxonomy:
Cognitive
Affective
Psychomotor
Describe the lesson content.
Provide a sequence for teaching activities.
Describe instructional methods.
Indicate time allotted for each activity.
Identify and describe the instructional resources (materials, tools, etc.) and technology to be used.
Describe how the learning will be evaluated.
On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format. Helpful APA guides and resources are available in the South University Online Library. Below are guides that are located in the library and can be accessed and downloaded via the South University Online Citation Resources: APA Style page. The American Psychological Association website also provides detailed guidance on formatting, citations, and references at APA Style.
• APA Citation Helper
• APA Citations Quick Sheet
• APA-Style Formatting Guidelines for a Written Essay
• Basic Essay Template
NSG4028 Concepts of Teaching & Learning
Week 1 Quiz
Question 1 A learning style that encourages students to learn more effectively through engagement, thinking, and remembering is
stimulus learning
discrimination learning
information learning
cognitive learning
Question 2 Which learning theory describes the need for learners to be rewarded through external environmental influences?
behaviorist
cognitive
psychodynamic
humanistic
Question 3 Using the behaviorist learning theory, which one of the following is an example of providing negative reinforcement?
giving a child a coloring book after the childe demonstrated independent use of an inhaler
providing two movie tickets to a nurse when he worked an extra shift
a college student is scheduled for a test in class, but because she is not prepared, she emails the instructor and tells her she is sick.
Question 4 When learning a new motor skill, the learner completes the skill and is praised by the nurse. This type of feedback is described as:
intrinsic
extrinsic
follow-up
outcome
Question 5 When comparing nursing process and education process, the education process focuses on:
the physical and psychosocial needs of patients
changing knowledge, skills, attitudes and values
quality outcomes
meeting patient needs
What is the single most important goal of the nurse as educator?
To prepare the client for self-care management
To determine the trends in the delivery of high-quality care
To understand the forces affecting nurses' responsibilities in practice
To maintain the client's sense of value and self-worth
Question 7 Which one of the following organizations has not developed standards for nursing proactive, including nursing education?
American Nurses Association
National League for Nursing
Institute of Medicine
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Question 8 Barriers to teaching can be best described as factors that
negatively impact on the learner's efforts to establish a mutual partnership with the nurse educator.
interfere with the learner's ability to attend to and process information.
impede the nurse's ability to deliver educational services to the learner.
limit the nurse's focus to conducting only formal, intended teaching and learning encounters.
Question 9 Which step is not included in the education process?
Modifying learner behavior through counseling and psychotherapy
Conducting an assessment of client needs, readiness to learn, and learning styles
Developing a teaching plan based on mutually predetermined outcomes as objectives
Choosing methods and tools to convey information in a manner that the learner can understand
Question 10 Which best defines the term teachable moment? The moment when
the nurse feels educationally prepared to teach.
the patient views new and different situations as challenges rather than defeats.
illness suddenly forces an individual to take a less active role in his or her care.
an informed patient complies with medical treatment plans.
Question 11 Learning that is directed by the individual learner where information is received, interpreted and reorganized is known as:
information processing
cognitive learning
discrimination learning
stimulus generalization
Question 12 A number of hospitals train or orient recently hired staff by having the new staff member work closely with an experienced staff member who serves as a role model for practicing desirable nursing skills. Which learning theory is being used in this scenario?
humanistic
psychodynamic
cognitive
social learning
Question 13 Which two theories emphasize that learners are keenly motivated to seek pleasure and rewards?
Behaviorist and cognitive
Cognitive and psychodynamic
Gestalt and social learning
Psychodynamic and behaviorist
Question 14 The major contribution of QSEN is to develop
competencies related to patient education and safety
an educational program for undergraduate nursing students
staff development guidelines for patient safety
programs to change the attitudes of nurses related to patient education
Question 15 Which learning theory is described by the idea to change behavior, change a person's subjective feelings about the self?
Psychodynamic
humanistic
behaviorist
cognitive
Question 16 The primary role of the educator is to:
teach
create partnerships with learners
promote learning in environments conducive to learning
meet accreditation and legal mandates related to patient teaching
Question 17 Which is one of the most effective methods to increase productive learning behaviors?
Avoidance conditioning
Communicate expectations
Escape conditioning
Consistent consequences
Question 18 The nursing process appraises physical and psychosocial needs, while the education process ascertains cognitive needs of the individual.
Question 18 options:
True
False
Question 19 Which learning theory encourages creating a safe learning environment for effective learning to occur?
Question 19 options:
psychodynamic
behaviorist
humanistic
cognitive
Question 20 Which statement best describes the contribution of educational psychology to nursing practice? Educational psychology
introduces ideas that determine the most appropriate learning theory for every individual.
specifically states how individuals learn and under optimal environmental conditions.
delivers philosophical discussions, debates, and opinions about the best way to teach.
provides diverse theoretical perspectives that can be tested about how individuals learn.
NSG4028 Concepts of Teaching & Learning
Week 3 Quiz
Question 1 Which method is best to accomplish objectives in the psychomotor domain?
Computer-assisted instruction
Group discussion
Role-modeling
Simulation
Question 2 A lecture would be an effective strategy to achieve which goal?
Teach a patient to inject insulin.
Change staff attitudes towards people with AIDS.
Encourage leadership behaviors in nurses.
Explain changes in Medicare reimbursement to nursing staff.
Question 3 Advantages of the demonstration and return demonstration instructional method include all of the following except:
Especially effective for learning in the psychomotor domain.
Cost effective student-teacher ratio.
Provides opportunity for "over-learning."
Actively engages the learner.
Question 4 Which is the most significant guideline to consider when selecting audiovisual aids?
Computer-assisted technology will be the more effective way to convey messages to the learner in the future.
Materials of all types should be previewed for accuracy and appropriateness of content and delivery.
Purchasing the best equipment available will ensure currency information for the longest period of time.
The suitability of a medium depends on its diversity in communicating information.
Question 5 Behavioral objectives are classified in a taxonomic hierarchy according to
type and complexity.
quantity and knowledge level.
preciseness and congruence.
concepts and domains.
Question 6 Which is a common teaching strategy that should be used for groups of learners of all ages and maturation levels?
Establish trust and rapport.
Involve family or significant other(s).
Provide concrete, "nice to know" information.
Allow learners to set their own pace.
Question 7 Which is not part of the instructor's role when using gaming as an instructional method?
Explain the objectives and rules for the players.
Intervene during the game to explain concepts.
Award prizes to winners at the finish.
Debrief players after the game.
Question 8 Which is a disadvantage of most printed materials?
Literacy level
Availability
Cost
Appearance
Question 9 Which principle is not applicable to adult learning?
Learning is self-controlled and self-directed.
Learning is person-centered and problem-centered.
The nature of learning activities remains stable over time.
Learning is reinforced by application and prompt feedback.
Question 10 Three major components of instructional materials are:
delivery system, content and presentation
accuracy, readability, level of abstractness
hardware, software, level of skill of the instructor
readability, symbolic representation, content
Question 11 Which strategy would be best to increase the effectiveness of a staff development lecture presentation on conflict resolution?
Increase the prerequisite reading.
Present the lecture to small groups.
Include a pretest and posttest.
Add problem-solving activities
Question 12 Which statement is false regarding the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning?
Each domain is ordered in a taxonomic form of hierarchy from a series of simple to complex behaviors.
The cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains are separate and unrelated, reflecting the development of skills, thinking, and feeling capabilities, respectively.
The cognitive and psychomotor domains represent the degree of understanding and skill attainment while the affective domain represents the degree of internalization and commitment to a feeling.
The learner must be successful at demonstrating behaviors at the lower levels of any domain before being able to achieve behaviors at the higher levels in that domain.
Question 13 What should be included in the performance characteristic of a well-written behavioral objective?
The testing situation or constraints under which the learner's behavior will be observed
With what accuracy, or to what extent, the learner will be able to carry out the behavior
Who will do the learning, such as the patient, family member, or significant other
What behavior the learner is expected to be able to do to demonstrate evidence of achievement
Question 14 The most important criterion in evaluating an instructional method is to determine whether the method:
facilitates the achievement of objectives.
uses resources efficiently.
promotes active learning.
is enjoyed by learners.
Question 15 All of the following statements are true about learning styles except:
Leaning style theory assists the nurse educator to ensure that each individual learner is given an equal opportunity to learn.
Nurse educators tend to prefer abstract and unstructured approaches to teaching.
No single mode describes someone's learning style, because each person is unique and comes with other factors that are equally important in learning.
Preference for a particular style of learning tends to change very little over time.
Question 16 Assessment of the learner includes which three determinants?
motivation, knowledge gap, and developmental stage
right brain function vs left brain function, knowledge readiness
physical readiness, emotional readiness, experiential readiness
learning needs, readiness to learn, learning styles
Question 17 What is the purpose of writing clear and concise behavioral objectives?
To specify what the teacher is expected to teach
To specify what the learner is expected to be able to do
To keep the learner motivated
To allow the learner to achieve many possible outcomes
Question 18 Which guideline should the educator follow when selecting instructional materials?
The goal for learning should be set before materials are selected.
The choice of materials should give direction in the establishment of objectives for learning.
The selection of appropriate materials should assist the educator in determining the domains of learning on which to focus instruction.
The audiovisual tools available should guide the educator's decision making regarding the content for instruction.
Question 19 What is the purpose of the pretest in self-instructional activities?
To focus the learner on the intent of the activity
To review the prerequisite skills needed
To identify current knowledge before proceeding
To help the learner treat the activity seriously
Question 20 How does anxiety affect emotional readiness to learn?
As the level of anxiety increases, emotional readiness begins to decrease.
The optimal time for learning is when a person experiences a high level of anxiety.
A person is most ready to learn when his or her anxiety is on either end of the continuum, either mild or severe.
Moderate anxiety interferes with a person's readiness to learn.
