Introduction Patient teaching plans are tools developed by nurses in facilitating a systematic and evaluative way used in communicating to their patients regarding a particular treatment or practice. According to Bastable (2008‚ p.407)‚ a teaching plan is a “blueprint for action to achieve the goal and the objectives that have been agreed upon by the educator and the learner.” In this context‚ the nurse is the educator while the patient is the learner where a teaching and learning activity will
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What is Integration? When we think of integration we can think of a folding together of ideas to gain a fuller understanding of something. If we are teaching a mathematics concept such as multiplication with two digits we may bring into the learning experience some manipulatives such as concrete arrays‚ or a multiplication rectangle‚ or base ten blocks. These concrete manipulatives help children to access the concept. They are resources or tools used in the learning experience. We are not focused
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Teaching Pronunciation Pronunciation involves far more than individual sounds. Word stress‚ sentence stress‚ intonation‚ and word linking all influence the sound of spoken English‚ not to mention the way we often slur words and phrases together in casual speech. ’What are you going to do?’ becomes ’Whaddaya gonna do?’ English pronunciation involves too many complexities for learners to strive for a complete elimination of accent‚ but improving pronunciation will boost self esteem‚ facilitate communication
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would like to produce‚ their qualities and strengths‚ what they would contribute to the world in which they live in. Once I examined my beliefs and the values‚ morals and ethics to adopt at the school‚ I came to the conclusion that most had already been thought about before and many a theorist could be used as a reference‚ but that indeed I was exercising that very thing I am hoping to become a teacher- and teaching is what it is all about! For “education is inherently about
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Some misconceptions about communicative language teaching Geoff Thompson ELT Journal Volume 50/1 January 1996‚ pp. 9 - 15 Although communicative language teaching is accepted by many applied linguists and teachers as the most effective approach among those in general use‚ there are still a number of misconceptions about what it involves. This article sets out four of the main misconceptions‚ discusses why they have arisen‚ and why they can be so described. In doing this‚ the article attempts to
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evaluating what they do and using these self-critical evaluations to adjust what they do next time. (Why Colleges Succeed‚ Ofsted 2004‚ para. 19) What this chapter is about . . . . . . . Reflective practice ± what is it? Why and how should we do it? Reflection `in’ and `on’ action Some models of reflective practice Using reflection as a basis for improving learning and teaching Writing your personal development journal (PDJ) Your individual learning plan (ILP) What makes a good
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An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular‚ the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past‚ teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College‚ London in the
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difficulty in understanding and being understood by native speaker. Another example of mispronunciation: when a speaker or a reader replaces one phoneme with another he unintentionally uses quite a different word ‚ in this way altering the sense of what he wanted to say. For instance‚ white instead of wide‚ it instead of eat‚ pot instead of port‚ etc. The inaccurate use of suprasegmental elements‚ such as stress and intonation‚ can also cause problems. For example the following request
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Innovation in teaching Jackie Lewis One of the major concerns of the tourism industry is that there is a mismatch between graduates’ skills‚ acquired from higher education institutions and the skill sets needed in industry. Many of the current graduates are found to be lacking in creativity‚ communications skills‚ analytical and critical thinking‚ and problem-solving skills (Teo & Wong‚ 2000; Tan‚ 2000). As such‚ there is much need for institutions of higher education to focus on training future
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Models of Teaching Summary Information-processing models emphasize ways of enhancing the human being¡¦s innate drive to make sense of the world by acquiring and organizing data‚ sensing problems‚ and generating solutions to them‚ and developing concepts and language for conveying them. The book discussed eight different information-processing models which include: Inductive thinking‚ Concept attainment‚ The Picture-Word Inductive Model‚ Scientific inquiry‚ Inquiry training‚ Mnemonics‚ Synectics
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