©2004 community faculty development center teaching styles as teaching methods

©2004 Community Faculty Development Center

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EEKSA: Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes

Teaching StylesTeaching Styles.…Is it just a matter of style?….…Is it just a matter of style?…


A. Keep Students InterestedA. Keep Students Interested

- - Excited teacher with loud voice and lots of Excited teacher with loud voice and lots of energyenergy

- - HumorHumor

- - Change activities frequentlyChange activities frequently

B. Respect LearnersB. Respect Learners

C. Objective DrivenC. Objective Driven

Types of Teaching StylesTypes of Teaching Styles




- Supportive- Supportive

- Encourages- Encourages







- Verbal teaching styles- Verbal teaching styles

- Bibliotherapy: Use of written handouts and articles- Bibliotherapy: Use of written handouts and articles

KKnowledgenowledge

SSkillskills

AAttitudesttitudes



By the end of the large and small group sessions, participants By the end of the large and small group sessions, participants will be able to:will be able to:

1. List and describe 4 verbal teaching styles.1. List and describe 4 verbal teaching styles.

2. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of each 2. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of each style with respect to different teaching objectives.style with respect to different teaching objectives.

3. Practice using teaching styles that, for them, are non-3. Practice using teaching styles that, for them, are non-preferred (non-dominant).preferred (non-dominant).

4. Use teaching styles to teach strategies which enhance 4. Use teaching styles to teach strategies which enhance clinical problem solving.clinical problem solving.

ObjectivesObjectives


Assertive Suggestive Collaborative FacilitativeAssertive Suggestive Collaborative Facilitative

Teacher’s experience Teacher’s experience Learner’s experienceLearner’s experience

Teaching StylesTeaching Styles


Assertive teaching styleAssertive teaching style

Assertive Style: Lectures. Gives information.

Examples Staph is the most common cause of osteo. Here’s how you treat osteomyelitis.

Who’s working: Teacher is providing information. Flow of information is one way!

Deals with: (or useful for developing):

Factual knowledge, or specific skills. Sometimes you need to give the learner some

information.

Questions to ask: Name 3 mechanisms by which you could get osteomyelitis.

Teacher’s experience Teacher’s experience Learner’s experience Learner’s experience

AssertiveAssertive Suggestive Collaborative FacilitativeSuggestive Collaborative Facilitative


Facilitative teaching styleFacilitative teaching style

Facilitative Style: Asks open, reflective, or emotive questions.

Examples How do you feel about putting a needle in someone’s bone?

How do you feel about caring for a non-compliant patient with osteomyelitis?

Is it hard for you to ask about drug use?

Who’s working: Teacher facilitates, HOWEVER: Only the learner knows the answer..

Deals with:

(or useful for developing): Emotions or attitudes.

Teacher’s experience Learner’s experience

Assertive SuggestiveAssertive Suggestive Collaborative Collaborative FacilitativeFacilitative



Assertive Assertive SuggestiveSuggestive Collaborative FacilitativeCollaborative Facilitative

Suggestive teaching styleSuggestive teaching style

Suggestive Style: Asks leading questions..

Examples 1. What germs cause osteomyelitis? 2. Which antibiotics kill those germs? 3. How well do those ABT’s penetrate bone? 4. What are the side effects of the antibiotics?

Who’s working: Teacher is organizing it for the student. Teacher is leading the student down a path.*


Opinion or uncertainty. Helps with clinical thinking.

When we ask… …We are using the

suggestive style.

Compare and contrast osteo and SA When would you order a bone scan vs. a

plain film in a patient with suspected osteomeylitis?



1.1. Built in Needs AssessmentBuilt in Needs Assessment

2.2. Activating Prior KnowledgeActivating Prior Knowledge

3.3. Demonstrating the problem solving stepsDemonstrating the problem solving steps

4.4. Keeps learner awakeKeeps learner awake

Benefits of Suggestive QuestionsBenefits of Suggestive Questions

Teacher’s experience Teacher’s experience Learner’s experience Learner’s experience

AssertiveAssertive Suggestive Suggestive CollaborativeCollaborative FacilitativeFacilitative

Collaborative Style: Asks open, exploratory questions.

Example: What ABT’s would you use to treat osteo?

Who’s working:

Student is organizing it. Focus of control is more with the student

than the teacher.


Opinion or uncertainty. Helps with clinical thinking..

Questions to ask: What’s your assessment and plan?

Collaborative teaching styleCollaborative teaching style



Name some mechanisms by which you get osteo? [Suggestive/Activating Prior Knowledge]Why did this patient get osteo? [Collaborative]Now why do you think he got osteo? Where do kids usually get osteo? Why? [Suggestive]

AssertiveDid you see how I thought that thru? [Explicit]

Utilizing Suggestive & Utilizing Suggestive & CollaborativeCollaborative

1 Joint effort between the teacher and learner.Joint effort between the teacher and learner.

2 Built in Needs AssessmentBuilt in Needs Assessment

3 Deals with thinking skills.Deals with thinking skills.

Similarities between Similarities between Suggestive and Collaborative StylesSuggestive and Collaborative Styles


Student working harder

Students structuring responses


Suggestive Collaborative

Teacher working harder

Teacher structuring responses

Contrasts between Contrasts between Suggestive and Collaborative StylesSuggestive and Collaborative Styles


““Verbal Teaching Styles” are Verbal Teaching Styles” are value-neutral.value-neutral.

No one style is unqualifiedly better or worse than No one style is unqualifiedly better or worse than another.another.

Each “Teaching Style” has its own advantages Each “Teaching Style” has its own advantages and usefulness.and usefulness.

The Key is flexibility.The Key is flexibility.

Summary of Teaching StylesSummary of Teaching Styles



Teaching Styles & Problem Teaching Styles & Problem SolvingSolving

Upper Respiratory TractUpper Respiratory Tract

URIURI

AllergyAllergy

SinusSinus

Lower Respiratory TractLower Respiratory Tract

AsthmaAsthma

PneumoniaPneumonia

Teaching Styles & Problem Teaching Styles & Problem SolvingSolving


Hematuria

Kidney Ureter Bladder Urethra

Urethritis

Foreign body

Infection

Rheumatologic

15 year old with hematuria15 year old with hematuria



The first ball game!

Problem SolvingProblem Solving


1st year resident in private office in February1st year resident in private office in February

Nice with patientsNice with patients

Good interviewing and Physical Exam SkillsGood interviewing and Physical Exam Skills

Presenting patient with meningomyelocoele Presenting patient with meningomyelocoele here for routine care. here for routine care.

Video DemonstrationVideo Demonstration


• What teaching styles were used to obtain the needs assessment?

• What are the resident’s needs?

• What teaching styles (methods) were used to address the needs?

• How effective were those teaching styles in addressing the learner’s needs?

• Would other styles have been more effective?

Video Demonstration Video Demonstration (cont)(cont)

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