Teaching Styles As Teaching Methods

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Teaching Styles .Is it just a matter of style?

G N O Methods

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KSA: Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes
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Types of Teaching Styles

A. Keep Students Interested
- Excited teacher with loud voice and lots of energy - Humor - Change activities frequently B. Respect Learners

C. Objective Driven

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Types of Teaching Styles

A. Keep Students Interested
B. Respect Learners
- Supportive - Encourages

C. Objective Driven

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Types of Teaching Styles

A. Keep Students Interested B. Respect Learners

Knowledge
Skills

C. Objective Driven
- Verbal teaching styles

Attitudes

- Bibliotherapy: Use of written handouts and articles

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Objectives
By the end of the large and small group sessions, participants will be able to:

1. List and describe 4 verbal teaching styles. 2. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of each style with respect to different teaching objectives. 3. Practice using teaching styles that, for them, are non-preferred (non-dominant). 4. Use teaching styles to teach strategies which enhance clinical problem solving.
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Teaching Styles
Teachers experience
Assertive Suggestive

Learners experience
Collaborative Facilitative

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Assertive teaching style

Teachers experience
Assertive Suggestive

Learners experience
Collaborative Facilitative

Assertive Style: Examples Whos working: Deals with:

(or useful for developing):

Lectures. Gives information. Staph is the most common cause of osteo. Heres how you treat osteomyelitis. Teacher is providing information. Flow of information is one way! Factual knowledge, or specific skills. Sometimes you need to give the learner some information. Name 3 mechanisms by which you could get osteomyelitis.
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Questions to ask:

Facilitative teaching style

Teachers experience Assertive Suggestive Learners experience Collaborative Facilitative

Facilitative Style: Examples

Asks open, reflective, or emotive questions. How do you feel about putting a needle in someones bone? How do you feel about caring for a noncompliant patient with osteomyelitis? Is it hard for you to ask about drug use? Teacher facilitates, HOWEVER: Only the learner knows the answer..

Whos working:

Deals with:
(or useful for developing):

Emotions or attitudes.
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Suggestive teaching style

Teachers experience Assertive
Suggestive Style: Examples

Learners experience Collaborative Facilitative

Asks leading questions.. 1. What germs cause osteomyelitis? 2. Which antibiotics kill those germs? 3. How well do those ABTs penetrate bone? 4. What are the side effects of the antibiotics? Teacher is organizing it for the student. Teacher is leading the student down a path.* Opinion or uncertainty. Helps with clinical thinking.

Suggestive

Whos working: Deals with:

(or useful for developing):

When we ask

Compare and contrast osteo and SA When would you order a bone scan vs. a plain film in a patient with suspected We are using the osteomeylitis? suggestive style.
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Benefits of Suggestive Questions

1. Built in Needs Assessment
2. Activating Prior Knowledge 3. Demonstrating the problem solving steps 4. Keeps learner awake

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Collaborative teaching style

Teachers experience Assertive Suggestive Learners experience Collaborative Facilitative

Collaborative Style:

Asks open, exploratory questions. What ABTs would you use to treat osteo? Student is organizing it. Focus of control is more with the student than the teacher. Opinion or uncertainty. Helps with clinical thinking.. Whats your assessment and plan?
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Example:

Whos working:

Deals with:
(or useful for developing):

Questions to ask:

Utilizing Suggestive & Collaborative

Name some mechanisms by which you get osteo? Assertive Where dosee kids usually get osteo? Why? [Suggestive] Why did this patient get osteo? [Collaborative] Did you how I thought that thru? [Explicit] Now why do you think he got osteo? [Suggestive/Activating Prior Knowledge]
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Similarities between Suggestive and Collaborative Styles

1 Joint effort between the teacher and learner.

2 Built in Needs Assessment

3 Deals with thinking skills.

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Contrasts between Suggestive and Collaborative Styles

Teachers experience Suggestive
Teacher working harder

Learners experience Collaborative

Student working harder

Teacher structuring responses

Students structuring responses

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Summary of Teaching Styles

Verbal Teaching Styles are value-neutral. No one style is unqualifiedly better or worse than another. Each Teaching Style has its own advantages and usefulness. The Key is flexibility.
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Teaching Styles & Problem Solving

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Teaching Styles & Problem Solving

Upper Respiratory Tract

URI Allergy Sinus

Lower Respiratory Tract

Asthma Pneumonia
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15 year old with hematuria

Hematuria Kidney Ureter Bladder Urethra Urethritis Infection Rheumatologic Foreign body

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Problem Solving

The first ball game!

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Video Demonstration

1st year resident in private office in February

Nice with patients Good interviewing and Physical Exam Skills Presenting patient with meningomyelocoele here for routine care.
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Video Demonstration (cont)

What teaching styles were used to obtain the needs assessment? What are the residents needs? What teaching styles (methods) were used to address the needs? How effective were those teaching styles in addressing the learners needs? Would other styles have been more effective?
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