Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
The students were actively engaged during the lesson. This is because learners were alert and were always attentive. All students were actively taking notes during learning and at the same time, they would actively listen. No learner slept or chatted during the lesson. Throughout the lesson, learners would ask questions and seek clarification and respond to all posed questions. Evidence shows that engaged learners are likely to ask questions during learning, react, and respond to posed questions (Cooper et al., 2018).Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
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Changes made during Lesson Implementation
During the lesson, I did not make any major changes. However, I discovered that I used illustrations such as charts and photos related to the learning content. This helped learners retain the taught information because, at the end of the lesson, learners were able to remember the taught content. I did not use simulations and info-graphics during learning as planned.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
Necessary Refinements before Implementing this Lesson Again
Before implementing this lesson again, I would ensure that I integrate group learning as part of the teaching strategy during the lesson. This is because group discussion forums among students have been shown to promote critical thinking and interactions among learners. Additionally, learners get to share ideas during group discussions and hence learn from each other (Cathy & Cathy, 2016). I would also use simulation exercises to encourage learners to practically perform the roles being taught. This would allow learners to acquire the target skills and learning objectives (Haukedal et al., 2018).Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
What Went Well
During the lesson, I gave students exercises and they all actively participated. The interactions, active participation, and laughter gave me confidence that learning was taking place and that I was under the control of the class. This experience taught me that in the future I need to use more open teaching styles and be flexible (Naidu, 2019). Changes can be essential in the best lesson plans.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
An effective nurse educator participates in continuous reflection of instruction. Reflection allows the nurse educator to identify areas of needs in order to improve practice and student success.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
The purpose of this assignment is to reflect on lesson plan implementation in the practicum setting.
After implementing your lesson plan, write a 350-500 word short answer reflection on the following questions:Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
- Were students actively engaged in the learning? How do you know?
- Did you make changes to your lesson during implementation? What were the changes and why did you make that change?
- What refinements will be necessary before implementing this lesson again? Support your answer with at least one evidence-based practice.
- What went well that you will repeat in future lesson plan implementations?
During the time of curriculum analysis I discovered that I started immersing myself into the NMT programme
structure by understanding the curriculum content that I am supposed to teach.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation. After the
curriculum analysis I felt confident to teach medical surgical nursing 1.On the positive note, I
managed to learn what the curriculum content for the NMT programme is arranged and also the
courses that are available for the programme. This was very important for me as student teacher
because it allowed me to familiarize myself with expected teaching methods that stipulated in the
curriculum.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
Competency of developing schemes of work and lesson plans
Introduction
The practice of preparing schemes of work and lesson is pointed out as one of the teaching
practices that promotes student learning at a training institution. Jantarach and Soontornwipast
(2018) pointed out that when teachers use of scheme of work and lesson plans to prepare for a
classroom experience it promote active participation of the learners during the teaching process.
This is because these tools give the teacher an opportunity of organizing his teaching such as
they enable the teacher to select relevant teaching and learning resources that are intended to be
used during the class session. Furthermore schemes of work and lesson plans can help the
teacher to plan and link between teaching methods and learning styles of the students. Komba
and Kira (2013) pointed out that when the teacher customize his or her teaching to the learning
styles of his or her students it brings positive results in terms of learning.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
What I did to achieve this competency
During the teaching practum period at St. Johns Institute for Health I was tasked to choose one
course that I can confidently teach. So during curriculum analysis I managed to identify trauma
and surgical nursing 1 as course that I will be responsible to teach.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation. After choosing this I managed
to write a scheme of work for period of five weeks and I also managed to develop six lesson
plans that I used during my teaching sessions. Any time I develop a scheme of work and lesson
plan I could show my mentor who could evaluate them and provide some feedback until they are
perfected. Initially when started developing the schemes of work I did not have much guidance
from the mentor, because at the institution they do not develop the schemes of work, for this
reason I felt like I did not have practical direction, but immediately after reviewing the
theoretical module of integrated teaching practum I found it easier. When developing the lesson
plans at first I felt as if will have a lot of challenges however with the support from the mentor
during the process of developing the first lesson plan I gained confidence. Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.After the development
of the lesson plan I felt confident and eager to teach
Competency of utilizing innovative teaching strategies in classroom teaching
Introduction
In order maximizing learning experiences in nursing institution it is important that Nurse
educators use innovation in their teaching (Herrman, 2008). Schell as cited in Herman (2008)Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
defines innovation in education as the use of nontraditional methods in learning settings.
Innovation does not focus only in the teaching strategy, but in the method the individual nurse
educator uses to present it. Innovative strategies provide a foundation from which to design
classroom activities, assignments, approaches to content, new ways to teach previously taught
material, and evaluation methods(Tanner, 1997). There are several innovative teaching strategies
that can be used in nursing education, among these the case study, jig saw, seminar etc. it is
noted according to Johnson and Romanello (2015) that the nursing classrooms today are
commonly composed of millennial students (born after 1982). Johnson and Romanello (2015)Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
established that Millenials enjoy learning style such as working in groups, teamwork, use
technology whenever possible and experiential activities. For this reason in the current error the
nurse educators need to develop competency of using innovative teaching strategies so as to
accommodate the current student generation.
What I did to achieve this competency
During this teaching practum experience at St. Johns Institute for health I managed to experience
teaching six classroom sessions using the following learner centered methods; group discussions,
problem based learning and case study, however two lesson utilized an innovative teaching
strategy of case study. When using the case study method for example, I would first all develop
present the objectives of the lesson to the learners and divide the learners into groups of four
students per group, then after that I would present the case scenario following by provoking
question that would allow the students to discuss and analyze each question, then later I would
present power points notes. Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.This was in line with recommendation of Downer and Swindells
(2007) who described a process for the teacher to follow when developing and effectively using
a case study. The process is circular approach and has six steps namely: write educational
objectives, Describe the patient and develop sufficient case detail ,Focus the learner on discrete
clinical decision points, Present viable options at decision points, Analyze options and select one
course of action, Introduce new information and continue to next clinical decision point.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation. After
the session of teaching I would sit down with my mentor who would give the feedback on how I
handled each the class and the areas where I would need to improve. However my experiences
of using these innovative teaching strategies it was observed that the students actively
participated in each lesson. In situations where encountered the challenges the mentor would
intervene and I would improve on the other sessions of the teaching.
Before attending to each class I would feel nervous as would not be sure if I will teach using
innovative teaching strategy correctly, however when I start teaching and I adhere to my lesson
plan I would feel also that the students are enjoying my class. After the class I could feel nervous
again as I will be waiting for the feedback from my mentor, however commonly my mentor
would structure the feedback very well to extent that I would feel satisfied and note the areas
where I need to improve. Through the use of innovative teaching strategy I could observes that
the lesson could be interesting to learners and there were involved throughout the entire lessons.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
However on the negative side at the beginning the student were observed as not knowing to what
is happen as they were used to the traditional lecturer methods, for this reason I could face
challenges but later on they got used to this method of teaching. The weakness that I observed
when teaching using the learner centered approaches was that I was over shooting the allocated
time for the lesson, however my mentor advised me I continue practice more on time
management Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
Competency of conducting formative assessment for the students
Introduction
In addition to teaching, assessment is another important pillar of nursing education. Assessment
in education is defined as the a process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting information
about teaching and learning in order to make informed decisions that enhance student
achievement and the success of educational programs (Genesee and Upshur, 1996 cited
Jabbarifar, 2009).Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation., Söderberg, Scheja, and Hult (2012) described that assessments in
education are also takes two forms, firstly they are used summarize students‘ achievements in
order to award certification or promote the student to a next level and they referred to it as
summative assessment and also assessment are used to give feedback to students in order to
support learning called formative assessments. With formative assessment Vygotsky (2005) cited
in Duers and Brown (2009) argued that it promotes the idea that a student, on his or her own,
can learn a certain amount, thereafter, assistance is required if the student is to develop their
learning further. Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.They stated that the assistance can take form of encouragement or provision of
suitable learning material, for example, feedback on performance, to prompt the student to move
to a higher level of learning, as such formative assessment is ideal for lifelong learning.
What I did to achieve this competency
During this teaching practice at St. Johns Institute for Health, I did conduct formative assessment
for the students that I was teaching.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation. I divided students into groups, and the first formative
assessment was given as group assignment and the students presented, the assignment was
marked the feedback was provided to the learners, the other form of formative assessment that I
administered to the students are the mid-semester test, the test items mainly comprised of
objective test items. Marking of the test items was done in time and feedback was also provided
to the students, the mentor assisted me mostly by checking the quality of objective questions that
I created and she also helped me to refine, however due to time constraint of this teaching
practum allocation I did not manage to assess give the students my summative. Before
administering the formative assessment, I felt the student will not benefit from the assessment,
however after the assessments were given, marked and when feedback was given to the students
I feel that the students really benefited from these assessments. Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.It was further noted that during
the mid semester examination students‘ performance was very good as compared to the first
assignment. By the conducting formative assessment positively I learnt that feedback is very
important as it bring about learning; the weakness on the competency of assessment is that I did
not have the opportunity assess the students summative, as such the next teaching practicum I
will need to achieve this competence again.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
Competency of performing leadership and administrative roles at St. Johns
Institute for Health
Introduction
Leadership style is defined as a social influence process in which the leader seeks the voluntary
participation of subordinates in an effort to reach organization goals (Nanjundeswaraswamy &
Swamy, 2014).Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation. A leadership style is a leader‘s style of providing direction, implementing plans,
and motivating subordinates. There are many different leadership styles established by various
researchers that are exhibited by leaders in an organization. For instance leadership expert James
McGregor Burns introduced the concept of transformational leadership in his 1978 book titled as
―Leadership‖(Korniewicz, 2015).Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
According to Korniewicz (2015) transformational leaders inspire their employees to go above
and beyond since they act as mentors. Transformational leaders are said to improve their
employee‘s self-esteem, motivation and job satisfaction.
What I did to achieve this competency
In order to achieve this competency I spent a week long experience in various offices that
provide key leadership and administrative roles at St. Johns Institute for Health. St. Johns
Institute for Health is headed by the College Principal who also has his Vice. Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.There four
administrative sections that oversees the daily operations of the college these are; the academic
section which is headed by the Dean Of Faculty, the finance section and it is headed by the
Finance Officer, the a human resource section which headed by the College Registrar and the
student welfare which headed by the Dean Of Students.
During this teaching practum I managed to have an experience in all the key offices that
performs leadership roles in various sections and departments at the institution.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation. Among these
offices includes, the office of the College Principal, The office of Dean of Faculty, The office of
Dean of Students, the office of Head of Clinical. I was also attached with the following officers;
the College Registrar, the Finance Officer, the College Librarian and the College Warden.
During this process of experience I analyzed various management tools such work policy, the
strategic plan, the financial manual, examination policy, the clinical policy, the budget document
and I also participated in the sensitization meeting of newly developed child protection policy.
Furthermore I also gained hand experience of common leadership style being practiced at St.
Institute for Health includes, transformational, democratic and autocratic leadership styles, these
leaderships styles are mainly performed by the college principal, who is the head of the
institution.Reflection of Lesson Plan Implementation.
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