Romeo Pastor

Location: sbi-nyc = 120 east, 16th st. new york, ny 10003

About me

My name is Dr. Romeo Pastor,RDCS,RDMS, Program Director of DMU at SBI-NYC. I started teaching ultrasound since 1987 when our school was still Ultrasound Diagnostic School. In my country (Philippines) I was a missionary doctor for 7 years in the mountains under the Franciscan Missionaries after which I finished 3 years of residency in Pediatrics, practiced for 2 years then came to US 1986.

Since we could not practice our specialty here unless we pass the exam for foreign graduates, I decided to enter into the field of Ultrasound and Cardiovascular Sonography.

For the past 24 years I have been teaching ultrasound and cardiovascular, I really learned to love the field. The success of my students gave me a lot of inspiration to continue teaching. I learned many things from them as they also learned from me. This is the only pride that came out from my humbleness and I really stand for it.

Interests

teaching general ultrasound and cardiovascular

Skills

scanning abdomen, small parts, ob/gyn, le and carotids and echocardiography

Website

https://mail.careered.com

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Phygmalion Effect

This is an interesting topic because in my own personal experience, just on the first day after the introduction of each one ,asking some witty questions about their lives, asking about their job, family and favorites, I can really tell which one can do it with ease and confidence in my classes and the ones with probable difficulty. I'll experience more on this type of effect.

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Role of instructor

I absolutely agree that 80% of the time,the learners should be "doing" and only 20% of the time, the instructor will be "telling". And all activities the learners are doing should be aligned to the learning objectives.

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The Classroom

The use of peripherals really can make the students feel at home in a learning environment. They will have more concentration and are more inspired to learn.. I will try to add music this time,the 60 BPM. I'm excited to experience the outcome.

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Learning disabilities

Forunately I haven't had any student with learning disabilities like dyslexia but I know that I should be prepared in the future just in case I do. What is important now is the instructor's ability to recognize the presence of learning disabilities so he can adjust and do the proper management as a teacher. This training prepared me to handle this kind of situation in the future. Thanks a lot. Dr. Pastor

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Motivation

I have had instances in the past where a student is a very slow learner due to language problem who has difficulty in understanding english. I have to spend more time with her and patiently repeat words for her to catch up and give more lengthy explanation. In addition I actually assigned certain students who speaks english and her language to help her out and do group studies. She just graduated and is currently working. I must have given her the motivation to accomplish this; proof that proper motivation really works. Dr. Pastor

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Organizing student into groups

This method is really useful in the lab. After introducing a new ultrasound scanning protocol to the class I would divide them into groups according to their strengths and personalities to have a well-balanced grouping where the strong students are distributed to different groups where they could be the leader of the group. Also different personalities will have to be blended accordingly. Thank you for your very valuable inputs, it will help me a great deal. Dr. Pastor

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movement and gesture

Based on my experience I realized that movement and gesture inside the classroom is a big deal in teaching. YES, I agree that you can catch the students attention and interest longer in the lecture by doing so. More so they will have a better understanding of your topic of the day,especially the difficult ones because they are more interested and focused listening to you. Have a good tone or well modulated voice and add your smile and eye contact to the students; all of them are important for student engagement. Thanks, I learn a lot in this module. Dr.… >>>

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Creating an evaluation system

The evaluation system we created is working well in our campus. For the didactic portion, I assigned: 10% for attendance,quizzes and attitude grade 50% for long exams-minimum of 3 per module 40% for final exam For the laboratory portion, I assigned: 40% for lab book and a powerpoint presentation 60% for competencies -a one in one practical exam Final Grade is 60% taken from didactic grade 40% taken from Lab. grade Thanks for giving me an idea of how to give extra credits for those absent during exams or with failing grades.

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Instructional back-up plan

I realized the importance of back-up plans because it is really true that sometimes students are failing to understand the keypoints of our presentation. Plan B is so important and based on the bad experience from Plan A it becomes easier to choose a better type of presentation and with all the instructional supports available a big relief is easy to accomplish. Thanks for the awareness.

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Instructional support

Based on my teaching experience the powerpoint presentation is for me my basic tool and in between discussions I use the chalk/white board to elaborate some important points. I usually do illustrations/drawings of the organ or region of interest. The models are also my guardian angel to make it even simpler for students to understand. Other instructional supports are drawn as well when needed like the audio/video and overhead transparencies etc. Thanks for this training, it is a big moral support for me that what I'm really doing is in the right track.

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