Reflection About Classroom Teaching Experience
Being an educator is a challenge and a new learning experience each time. As an educator, I am entrusted with the responsibility of shaping the way students think and feel in the classroom. I have always wanted to be an educator and share my experiences with the new generation of nurses. When I was assigned to work with professor Lynette Rayman to do my classroom teaching experience, I was thrilled because the topic I chose was chronic kidney disease which also happens to be my area of expertise. I had to incorporate my previous learning experiences to make my presentation lively. In order to teach well, I needed to understand my subject matter and had to collect the required materials that would …show more content…
There was a feeling that I had already won half the battle. Yes, I had prepared well for my lecture. I shared different patient stories according to the situation at time. I used videos for my presentation to make the students engaging. I also broke down the concepts, like I had made a pathophysiology of chronic kidney disease using another textbook in flowchart format. There was also a lot of students who felt that I addressed questions (appropriately 91%). I was also happy to find out that 92% of my students felt that I showed some amount of enthusiasm, poise, and professionalism. Yes, I do agree with them because I knew I was responsible for their material and had to show some amount of …show more content…
My students gave me 73% in that area, I do agree with them because I tend to speak at a very fast pace normally. In addition to this, I was running out of time. Both these factors combined seriously affected the way I took the class. Most of my students also addressed the same issue in their written feedback that I was too fast and they had huge difficulty in following my pace. Approximately 80% of my students felt that I did not engage them and encouraged participation during my presentation. That really disappointed me that I was unable to involve the students during my lecture. Few of the junior students also felt that I should have reviewed the topic material in a clear and concise manner (approximately 87%). Due to lack of time I did rush through my content and wanted to cover all my slides. After receiving the student evaluation form I was surprised that almost 45 students out of 75 were pleased with my presentation. This really surprised me, because more than half of the class was happy with my session. It really encouraged and motivated me more to pursue my passion for teaching. There were also shocking comments from students were many had told me that my slides had very a small font and I had to divide the slides next time. This was an eye-opener because I had not really thought about it while preparing my
Being an educator is a challenge and a new learning experience each time. As an educator, I am entrusted with the responsibility of shaping the way students think and feel in the classroom. I have always wanted to be an educator and share my experiences with the new generation of nurses. When I was assigned to work with professor Lynette Rayman to do my classroom teaching experience, I was thrilled because the topic I chose was chronic kidney disease which also happens to be my area of expertise. I had to incorporate my previous learning experiences to make my presentation lively. In order to teach well, I needed to understand my subject matter and had to collect the required materials that would …show more content…
There was a feeling that I had already won half the battle. Yes, I had prepared well for my lecture. I shared different patient stories according to the situation at time. I used videos for my presentation to make the students engaging. I also broke down the concepts, like I had made a pathophysiology of chronic kidney disease using another textbook in flowchart format. There was also a lot of students who felt that I addressed questions (appropriately 91%). I was also happy to find out that 92% of my students felt that I showed some amount of enthusiasm, poise, and professionalism. Yes, I do agree with them because I knew I was responsible for their material and had to show some amount of …show more content…
My students gave me 73% in that area, I do agree with them because I tend to speak at a very fast pace normally. In addition to this, I was running out of time. Both these factors combined seriously affected the way I took the class. Most of my students also addressed the same issue in their written feedback that I was too fast and they had huge difficulty in following my pace. Approximately 80% of my students felt that I did not engage them and encouraged participation during my presentation. That really disappointed me that I was unable to involve the students during my lecture. Few of the junior students also felt that I should have reviewed the topic material in a clear and concise manner (approximately 87%). Due to lack of time I did rush through my content and wanted to cover all my slides. After receiving the student evaluation form I was surprised that almost 45 students out of 75 were pleased with my presentation. This really surprised me, because more than half of the class was happy with my session. It really encouraged and motivated me more to pursue my passion for teaching. There were also shocking comments from students were many had told me that my slides had very a small font and I had to divide the slides next time. This was an eye-opener because I had not really thought about it while preparing my