Best Practices in Teaching

Demonstrate reflective practice through the integration of evidence-based knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward establishing effective learning environments.

Artifact Reflection:

Storyboard/HPTT 825 Essentials of E-Module Development

The Storyboard assignment is a precursor to the final E-Learning Module for this course. The Storyboard project is an opportunity to create and illustrate major segments of the E-Learning Module that demonstrate best practices in teaching, including content chunking, multimedia planning, and interactive elements. Because of this, this artifact was chosen to represent the best practices in teaching objectives.

I learned how effective storyboarding can be for conveying information to students and for presenting it as an educator. For students, it can help organize a large amount of data into a logical sequence. As previously discussed, storyboarding can break this large amount of data into chunks that are more manageable to learn. As an educator, it's helpful to have learning content laid out and visualized to make sure the material is cohesive. I found it particularly useful to have a script or voice-over prompts written out ahead of time for educational content I was recording. This assignment also helped me master multimedia principles with evidence-based techniques for highly effective educational materials and images.

Artifact Reflection:

Simulated Scenario Builder/HPTT 824 Simulated and Virtual Learning in Health Professions Education

The Simulated Scenario Builder (SSB) is a simulated clinical experience designed to incorporate evidence-based knowledge, skills, and attitudes for establishing effective learning environments. The SSB built specifically for this course is designed to teach cardiac sonography students to properly diagnose and assess rare pathologies using ultrasound, so they are prepared to scan them in real-world settings. Because the SSB emphasizes establishing effective learning environments through simulation, this artifact was chosen for the Best Practices in Teaching objective.

For this assignment, I learned in depth about the many facets of simulation, including pre-briefing, debriefing, scenario building, simulation fidelity, and facilitation, among others. During this assignment, I taught a cardiac ultrasound lab and identified techniques I could apply to my lab from this simulation course. These techniques included preparing my learners before the simulation, making the simulation as close to the real thing as possible, and allowing a debrief session afterwards to encourage student self-reflection. I will continue to use these skills in my simulation labs and will develop or modify other labs in the future.