Teaching Pharmacology
Teaching pharmacology has been challenging but also enjoyable. The exercise and tutorials make a lot of sense because I find myself using multiple styles in relaying a tremendous amount of information to the students in a very short amount of time.
Between lectures, powerpoints, videos, doing hands on projects, and memorization of drugs and various mechanisms of actions on the body, I find that it not only keeps the information from becoming monotonous, but provides a lot of variety for the student and myself.
More importantly though, when it comes time for the students to take their board exams, I've had a number of them come to me after finishing and comment on the different methods they use to recall the information to answer a specific question!
I really enjoyed this exercise!
Hi Andrea, Thanks for your post to the forum. It's great to see that you are concerned about improving your teaching - hope this class helps!
Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Sounds like your school gives you some freedom on what to teach and how to deliver it. The school I work for doesn't let us be creative. I also teach pharmacology and the only thing I'm allowed to use is the text book. If I find something interesting on the web I have to submit a request to have it OK'd by the PM. By the time it would get done we are learning something new.
I would love to have some freedom , so I can help more students to better themselves. The biggest complaint from students is how dry our material is. I must agree, I even get bored and I'm the teacher.
I would love to do video presentations on MOAs. The only time I can mix some teaching styles is in lab, " surprisingly " sudents do a lot better in lab than any other classes. We don't even do learning style analysis, and non of the instructors get any training . Hopefully after this course I'll be a better educator, possibly even help other instructors with their teaching .
Hi Zafar, Thanks for your post to the forum. You are obviously doing a great job of teaching to the learning styles! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
