Odilla, this is a useable strategy in skills lab as you described.
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I am more on Weakest Think and Wheel of supplies
both would teach learners judgement and critical skills by both application and resource relocation.I mostly do skills labs activities and this would be useful as we utilize a lot of items and reference materials.I would like to see my students creative mind and learn from them as well,ideas I would not imagine would surface as well.Exciting and fun.
I am into Weakest Think and Wheels of Supplies,both assess critical thinking and creativeness of one's mind to accomplish the objectives.Intructors and learners participate in the activities.Interactive and creatively done.I will learn things that I would ever imagine thinking off from the learners minds.
AVINASH , I have used this idea with many diverse learners and it always gets a good response.
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I like the puzzle pattern with figuring out what two letters come next which follows the sequence of the first letter of the months.
Jamie, I hadn't thought of using this a activity in this way, but this is a great idea!
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I like the find what is wrong in this picture teaching x-ray there is many times on dr shows where something is done wrong or x-rays are hung wrong this would be a good teaching tool.
Great idea! Thank you for the advice. -Leslie
Leslie, How about giving a parasite "identity" to each learner and have them talk about themselves and guess who others are?
Michele Deck
I think that the wheel of supplies and the patterns of thinking are the best ones for me to apply. I'm still not sure how to mix up all of the parasitology that I am facing as there are so many that need to be learned and we only have a limited amount of time to learn it because of the holiday. Other than Jeopardy any suggestions to mix up the endless parsites they must know?
Linda, I'm so glad you had the experience with activities from my live class. I'm also glad you have found value in this course as well.
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You spoke at our school over a year ago. I was a new teacher at the time. I teach medical coding and billing to Medical Assistants in an hour and 30 minute class. After being inspired by 'the weakest think' activity, I created my own version. I divide class into 4 groups and have them pick a leader (I think I will get more creative in the way they pick the leader)...they receive an envelope with various patient scenarios (like 'Mary is 100' or 'Peter is poor and has a foster child', Ramona fell off a ladder while stacking shelves at work...) they also receive 4 post cards labeled Worker Comp, Medicaid, Medicare, MCO....they have to place each scenario with proper card....
Shirley, thank you for sharing which activity will best suit your classes. I know you will have much success with them!
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I like all the strategies and plan on incorporating them into my teaching of didactic and clinical areas. The first day of clinical i am looking forward to presenting the one that brings out how important HIPPA is so that it will bring the message home and help the students to apply it to themselves. For my first day of didactic i want to use eyes or ears since we will be just coming back from a 2 week vacation from school. I believe this will surprise them with how a nurse must listen as they are observing even down to smelling! The nurse can learn a lot in a short assessment if they know how to look and listen.
Mike, I'm glad you are using a variety of activities in your classes, this reaches all the learners.
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Laura, I'm so glad you stress developing critical thinking skills in you learners. Great instructors value this and work to hone the learners skills.
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I use all of these teaching ideas when presenting material. I have activities and games such as jepoardy to relieve the aniexty of new material not only for the students but for myself as well. I use this to pick out patterns of learning difficulties for students and we use the game to reinforce the material and teach critical thinking skills.
I am a Lab assistant and I have used the Weakest Think. I also demostrate all the skill to students and incorporate some critical thinking in it. I find that a lot of students struggle with their critical thinking and is hard to make them understand the importance of it. By the time I get them into the lab they know each other very well that when they are performing a procedure and making mistakes they correct each other right away and don't allow the student performing think the process through.
But I will think about these strategies and try to incorporate them in some way.
Lisa, I'm glad you have fond benefit in using this idea.
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Lynn, having the student's brainstorm gives them ownership of the content, so they are more likely to remember it.
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