Joe Vuthiganon, DMD

Getting Ready to Teach

The MillennialsJoe Vuthiganon, DMD

Characteristics of the Millennial Generation

https://students.rice.edu/images/students/AADV/OWeek2008AADVResources/Characteristics of the Millenial Generation.pdf

The Five R’s of Engaging Millennial Students

http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/the-five-rs-of-engaging-millennial-students

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A Vision of Students Today – Kansas State Univ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

Students’ Perceptions of Effective Classroom and Clinical Teaching in Dental and Dental Hygiene Education

J Dent Educ 2006 70:624-635

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16741130

Jennie Ariail, PhD

Getting Ready to Teach

If We Want Adults, Let’s Teach Them as Adults

Adult Learning TheoryCore Learning Concepts

Most of us learned to teach and to learn from pedagogical models, not andragogical ones

Much adult learning occurs in contexts that are active, relevant, and social.

Knowles, M. (1990) The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species Houston, Gulf Publishing Company.

Pedagogy Andragogy

Dependent on Authority

Independent, equal

Experience is secondary

Experience is resource

Motivated by others/ teachers

Motivated by problems

Subject-centered (What should I know?)

Performance-centered (what do I do?)

Mass learning Distributed practice/ Spaced learning

At Times the ChallengeIndependent and Equal

If we could only hand down definitive knowledge…

However, that concept is antithetical to our understanding of the process of education in a democratic society and…state of knowledge.

We Teach in a Zone

• `Zone of Proximal Development’

• Our job is to support students as they move from novice to expert.

Vygotsky, L.S. (1978) Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Process, edited by M. Cole, V. John-Steiner, S. Scribner & E.

Experience as Resource Cannot learn something new unless we connect it to something we know. More scholarly wording: acquisition of new knowledge requires the activation of prior knowledge. Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T.

(2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning t DOI: 10.1177/1529100612453266

What Do I Do: Performance Centered, Problems to Solve

• Intrinsic motivation

• Personal goals

• Share yours ( equal and independent)

Do versus BEActive versus Passive

Advice often heard by students: “Just sit and listen.”5-10% retention rate for lectures

15 minute-chunks

PowerPoint—we do all the work, all the struggle

Davies, Philip. Approaches to evidence-based teaching. 2000, Vol. 22, No. 1 , Pages 14-21 (doi:10.1080/01421590078751

Strategies to Ensure Memory

Over 100 years of research: #1 Practice questions

Distributed practice1.opportunities to review many times

2.methods for creating review materials

Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14, 4-58. DOI: 10.1177/1529100612453266

Affect

Descartes was wrong

Cannot have one without the other

Affect is central and essential

Positive encouragement

If you remember nothing else!

We are the models, the mentors for teaching and learning and interacting with colleagues and patients.

Our students will do as we do.

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

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ReferencesDavies, Philip. Approaches to evidence-based teaching. 2000, Vol. 22, No. 1 , Pages 14-21 (doi:10.1080/01421590078751

Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14, 4-58. DOI: 10.1177/1529100612453266

Knowles,M. (1990) The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species .Houston, Gulf Publishing Company.

Mueller, Pam. A. & Oppenheimer, Daniel . Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note TakingDOI: 10.1177/0956797614524581Psychological Science published online 23 April 2014

Vygotsky, L.S. (1978) Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Process, edited by M. Cole, V. John-Steiner, S. Scribner & E. Souberman :Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press)

Titchen, A. (1992) Problem-based distance learning for health professionals, Physiotherapy, 78(4) , pp. 257± 262.

Schwartz, R.W., Donnelly, M.B., Nash, P.P. & Young, B. (1992). Developing students’ cognitive skills in a problem-based surgeryclerkship, Academic Medicine, 67(10), pp. 694± 696.

Mary Mauldin, EdD

Getting Ready to Teach