Creating Lifelong Learners
What are some strategies you can use to encourage continued learning by your students?
I like to empower my students by encouraging them not to accept a question as being only right or wrong, and move on.I usually encourage them to clarify their answers with evidence. This experience give them the ability to look into their thoughts, possibly revised them and come up with arguments to support their answers. Looking for the "why" make the learning experience more meaningful for the learner.
Learning is a life-long continuous process. To encourage students to be engaged in continuos learning process, I will advice them to pursue continuing education like taking CEU.
Christina-Rose, I'm glad you found some teaching strategies you can utilize in your classes.
Michele Deck
Vanessa, I appreciate you selecting activities that will work in your class. Good luck in all you do!
Michele Deck
Louise, this is a great introduction to the behavior one will have as a professional in the job world. Thank you for sharing.
Michele Deck
We encourage our students to go to continuing education meetings for continued learning. We introduce them to that during the program by fundraising to help pay for their registration fee for a particular conference.
I really like the following strategies:
1. Utilizing the Yarn in my class to show the blood flow of the heart between the students.
2. Have you ever on the card for each student to complete as an icebreaker.
3. The scavenger hunt within typed notes given to students.
I think being able to identify and communicate to someone what their learning style is, is vital to encouraging continued learning. I would use many of the strategies outlined in this course to spark learning and creativity within ones own learning style.
Alison, you are creating multiple ways of thinking by using a diverse set of teaching strategies. Please continue in this path.
Michele Deck
I usually give real world answers, examples of situations with patients to show them ways to apply what they are learning. I allow discussion if someone has a story to tell about a topic we are learning about.
I provide a lot of reading, workbook, and review material to help them reinforce what they learn as well.
Jennifer, these are very valuable connections that can not be underestimated.
Michele Deck
As much as possible, I look to find how class content fits into the students' daily lives. I look for different ways to bring up how ideas apply to outside situations and bring them up regularly. I also ask the students to look for applications in their lives and talk about them to the class. The hope here is that these connections will continue to occur to them even when I don't ask them to provide them in class.
Take the class on a tour to a facility that offers their possible future skills.
Jumana, this is a great start to the message of professional education. Each is responsible for their own continued education.
Michele Deck
I encourage my students to read and do CEU's, continued education units to keep them updated in the new things happening in their field.
Our collage now offers the students the opportunity
to continue their education very easily. They also offer special programs to graduating students. This really makes my job very easy.
The best way to encourage lifelong learning is by giving examples that you are actually doing yourself. It also matters to them what value it will have, so you need to make sure you connect why lifelong learning should be a personal goal. In the case of nursing, it's all about the patient should be instilled in students, and they should understand that changes occur in care continuously.
I do a similar project, when teaching my Labortary Procedures class, I assign different competencies to my students (ex. venipuncture, capillary puncture, obtaining a throat culture) and have them teach it back to the class and we all discuss if the provided the correction information and had a good understanding of the topic/procedure.
Melissa, "I pull up medical articles and read and discuss them as a class. We look up unfamiliar words on Google and I show them how to understand complex medical literature. After teaching them how to understand these journals, they can go back and read these journals on their own later."
What a fabulous idea! I actually had not thought of that for class. I have links available to articles and resources, expecting the students to research and read on their own time. But showing them what I expect from them will allow questions/answers/clarification during class. Thank you.
