week 10 Flashcards
what scenario based learning
- An approach to strengthen student’s understanding and interconnections between teaching, learning and research
- Educational form at centred around discussion and learning from a clinically based scenario
- Assists students to integrate theory and practice, and apply previous learnt knowledge
- Utilises actual scenarios presented in a variety of formats (e.g. clinical cases, video, simulated and real patients)
- Assists students to understand conceptual foundations of occupational therapy e.g. body functions and structures, the environment and the occupations people participate in.
- Students are given puzzling situations and are required to define their own gaps in understanding in the context of relevant clinical problems
whats self directed do
- Allows students to have a greater ownership of their learning and how they construct their own knowledge rather than being “told” what to learn
- From passive learners to more active participants e.g. sharing past placement experiences and knowledge
- Involves purposeful engagement with specific questions, problems and learning activities
whats the structure of SBL
Session 1: intro to scenario
Lecture/ skills sessions and own private research
Session 2: presentation on learning objectives
whats sbl student aims
to develop life long learning habits and skills
to increase knowledge and understanding
to develop critical reasoning power
to facilitate self reflection through working in a team
whats the three strudent responsibilities
respect
communication
self awareness and evaluation
whats respect involve
- Be respectful to others opinions
- Listen non-judgementally
- Allow others to share their opinions
- Acknowledge other’s knowledge and contributions
- Be responsible for own learning
- Be punctual and complete assigned tasks
whats communication involve
- Demonstrate appropriate verbal and non-verbal behaviours e.g. not using phones in class
- Ask clarifying questions to clarify misunderstandings
- Use open ended questions appropriately
- Test own assumptions with group members Present clearly using words and pictures that others will understand
whas self awareness and evaluation involve
- Assesses own strengths and weaknesses
- Accepts feedback
- Acknowledges difficulties in understandings
- Corrects and learning from mistakes
- Responds to fair evaluative feedback without becoming defensive
- Encourages others with constructive feedback
- Acknowledge and identifies sensitive topics
whats the SBL process
- What are the ISSUES?
- How well do you understand the issue? 3. Learn from each other
- Determine priorities for learning
- Monitor group progress
- Concept mapping
- Asking questions
whats the SBL roles
- Leader: Get the team started, Responsible for encouraging others to participate. “who wants to be the scribe?”, “Do we all agree?”
- Scribe: listens and documents the team’s discussions and answers to questions from the case-study.
- Leader: Get the team started, Responsible for encouraging others to participate. “who wants to be the scribe?”, “Do we all agree?”
- Scribe: listens and documents the team’s discussions and answers to questions from the case-study.
- Word finder: retrieves definitions and explanations of medical terms, diagnoses, and interventions through appropriate online sources.
- Time keeper: Ensure the team is focused and on track to meet all requirements.
- Reader: Reads the case-study text and questions
ground rules
- 100%attendance
- Freedom to explore ideas–no idea is “wrong” or “stupid”
- Everyone has some knowledge of the issues
- Everyone participates
- Each person takes turns in being a scribe and a chair for the session
- Summaries of learning to be shared within the group
effective groups
- Keep ground rules
- Members focus on group’s goals
- Care about team achievements
- Work in a supportive environment
- Continuous group monitoring
dysfunctional groups
- Fail to identify ground rules
- • Members do not have
- common goals
- Care about personal gains
- Tutor-centred/managed by a dominant member
- Ignore feedback
benefits
- Think critically, analyse and solve complex, real-world problems
- To find, evaluate, and use appropriate learning resources
- To work cooperatively, to demonstrate effective communication skills
- Promote deeper levels of learning and engagement with content material
- Remain academically engaged
- Increases student motivation to learn
- Self-regulated learning
- Opportunity to develop skills in team work, interpersonal relations, negotiation and collaboration which are fundamental for placement
- It is a student-centred learning approach
- Encourages and facilitates greater understanding
- Development of long-term knowledge retention
- Promotes lifelong learning skills
wha are threshold concepts
- First proposed by Meyer & Lund in 2003
- Threshold concepts are described as “a portal, opening up a new and previous inaccessible way of thinking about something” (Meyer & Lund, 2003, p. 1)
- In the same way as in the physical world, a threshold must be crossed in order to enter a new understanding of something
- Proposed that in each discipline, there are concepts that are vital to understand “without which the learner cannot progress”
- Proposed that threshold concepts could be “potentially powerful transformative points in the student’s learning experience” (Meyer & Lund, 2003, p. 57)
- Belief is that by applying threshold concepts, it can assist educators by identifying ‘stuck places’ in a curriculum that block students’ understanding
- Is proposed that threshold concepts can facilitate a dialogue between lecturers, students and educational developers
- Creates a ‘transactional curriculum inquiry’ in which all key playersacademics, students and educationalistswork together