A mentor’s role in placement learning
January 26, 2010
Video >> Alison Clark: “The role of the mentor is to provide dedicated clinical supervision to that student, to keep them safe in practice but also that they learn those core skills and the core knowledge that makes them safe to be practitioners once they’re qualified.” Pam Winn: “I think it’s my job to make …
The academic’s role in supporting placement mentors
Video >> Alison Clark: “Well, the students are given an assessment of practice record, which has a range of proficiency statements that the Nursing and Midwifery Council expect them to achieve over a three year period. The mentors then, have to interpret that in the practice setting, and then they make the decision how much …
Strategies to address a reluctance to ask questions in lectures
November 24, 2009
Video >> Martin Binks: “People are often too shy to raise issues, but one of the things that I tend to do periodically through the lectures is just say ‘Right, you’ve got two minutes. Talk to the person next to you, behind you, in front of you, whatever, and work out what you think the …
Inclusivity as a basis for group discussions
Video >> Kingsley Udeh: “Interaction in the class or the seminar is very important. No. 1 is that it ventilate your doubt about certain areas, you say your ideas, in fact sometimes you think an idea is correct, but when you say it during discussion you discover that it’s not right or that it’s not …
International perspectives broaden a class debate
Video >> Interviewer: “What do you get out of a discussion?” Eric Masika: “I get different views of how to look at same thing. We’re looking at something same, but you have a different opinion about it, I have my opinion and we all pool together our experiences, it makes a new thing.” Chris Ennew: “The kind of …
Preparing groups to manage themselves
Video >> Martin Binks: “I have to spend a bit of time at the beginning of the first four lectures talking to the whole group, or rather in two large groups, and explaining to them why we’re doing what we’re doing, the way that we’re doing it, and what I’m hoping they will actually get …
Mixing international students and home students for small group study
Video >> David Clarke: “Talking to international students, the ones I’ve discussed this with, they are quite strongly of the view that they come to meet and mix with home students, students from other cultures, and that for a lot of them, I think, the idea that they, they seem to mix with their own …
Valuing the student voice: the tutorless tutorial
Video >> David Clarke: “I’m particularly mindful of the difficulty of getting everybody to participate in a way they’re comfortable with, and getting them to believe that we genuinely want to hear the student’s voice. I think the difficulty for so many students, and it’s not a peculiarity of international students, is they either don’t …
How effective are reusable learning objects at supporting didactic lectures?
October 1, 2009
Andrew Fisher: “This project designed two Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) which were then used to supplement a core first year module in philosophical logic taken by eighty students. RLOs are reusable web-based resources with a single learning objective, with the functional requirements of accessibility and reusability. They are popular within the Sciences and Medicine, but …
Reading academic papers: participation in tutorials
September 30, 2009
Video >> Nicola Pitchford: “I get them to go to the library and to make a copy of an academic journal article. It’s one of the things that they have to learn to do in psychology is to write lab reports and to write up their scientific studies so actually, it’s supporting, you know, the …
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