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Teaching Outside the Box

Teaching Outside the Box. Delon F.P. Brennen, MD MPH Asst. Professor – Pediatrics / Pediatric Emergency Medicine Department of Pediatrics Morehouse School of Medicine. Why do we need to?. “They just don’t seem to be getting it” “They don’t work as hard as we used to” “They just don’t care”.

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Teaching Outside the Box

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  1. Teaching Outside the Box Delon F.P. Brennen, MD MPH Asst. Professor – Pediatrics / Pediatric Emergency Medicine Department of Pediatrics Morehouse School of Medicine

  2. Why do we need to? • “They just don’t seem to be getting it” • “They don’t work as hard as we used to” • “They just don’t care”

  3. Gen X/Y - ADHD Syndrome

  4. Learn Differently • Visual • Auditory • Kinesthetic

  5. Visual Learners • WRITE IT • Provide written materials and exercises • Write key words on board or flip chart • Ask them to write a response • Use visuals or graphics • Ask them to be recorder in a group • Involve them through visual/spatial sense

  6. Auditory Learners • SAY IT • State the information • Ask learners to describe specific info • Provide discussion periods • Encourage questions • Foster small group participation • Not Just YOUR voice • Utilize audiovisuals and audio cassettes

  7. Kinesthetic Learners • DEMONSTRATE IT • Demonstrate how a principle works • Ask them to practice the technique • Encourage underlining and highlighting key • Provide real-life simulations • Offer hands-on activities • Involve them physically • touch and feel, puzzles, crosswords, words on sheets of paper to arrange

  8. Use the 5 senses

  9. Examples of Techniques? • Visual • Stand in a crowded area & observe small kids • Auditory • Recordings of heartbeats • Music • Kinesthetic • Taste-test medicines • Role play clinical scenarios

  10. Wake Up Your Students! • Self-Awareness • Question themselves

  11. Stay in Touch With Reality • Build bridges to businesses/practices • Pharmacies/Medical Suppliers • Hospices • Psychiatric facilities • Schools • Social workers/DFACS • WIC • Encourage Social Consciousness

  12. Make Room for Inspiration • Go outside and walk/talk • Challenge learners to look at people/patients in new ways • Tolerate—and even embrace—failure.

  13. Encourage Innovation

  14. Give your students what they need: • Skills Take it back to the old school

  15. Listen! • Let them ask questions, without asking them one • Ask what they’re interested in, listen, then act accordingly

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