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Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
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Role of the Facilitator in Supporting Learning
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Learning outcomes
Discuss how adults learn
Describe factors that motivate adults to learn
Describe the role of the facilitator
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Creating a Climate to Learn
• Learning takes place when parents are ready physiologically and psychologically.
• Depends on what is being taught• Comfort – too heavily pregnant is a barrier to
effective learning• Motivation• Good Teaching
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Adult Learners
• Are in a continuing process of growth, not at the start of a process
• Bring with them experience and values• Value learning that is pertinent to their lives• Bring expectations about the learning process• Have competing interests• Prefer a problem centred approach to learning over
subject centred• Already have their own set of patterns of learning
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How do you learn?
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
MultidisciplinaryLearning Styles•Autonomous•Self directed•Goal orientated•Practical•Relevancy orientated•Problem solvers•Life experiences
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Kolb experiential learning cycle
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What makes a good teacher?
• Knows subject • Understands/Respects everyone as an individual • Uses different teaching styles to accommodate
different learners.• Has a sense of humour• Is kind and patient • Doesn’t give up-believes in everyone• Sets a good example• Helps those with difficulties
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
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20 mins is the average attention span
Thereafter it rapidly declines
If teaching pregnant women, it is important to acknowledge that Pregnancy amnesia reduces attention span considerably and affects women’s ability to concentrate and to remember what they have heard.
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We Remember
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we see and hear
80% of what we say
90% of what we say and do
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
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Information in Pregnancy
The importance of ‘informed choice’ is recognised as fundamental to good practice and as an integral part of clinical governance in maternity care
(Changing Childbirth Department of health 1993)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
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Women come to classes primarily to learn about labour and giving birth.
They also have a parenting agenda.Women want to know what effect childbirth has on their
personal relationships. Women are also interested in baby care, coping with a
new baby at home and breastfeeding.
Hillan 1992, McIness 2004, O’Meara 1993, Nolan 1997, Parr 1998).
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Schneider 2001
“All women said the information on labour, birth and pain relief was relevant and helpful. Most were disappointed that they received so little information on baby care and coping with an infant in the early days … they wanted more information about infant care …patterns of behaviour … and how they may feel physically and emotionally …”
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What Information Do Men Want?
• Labour and especially how they could help.
• Whether they or their partners will struggle to cope with the responsibility of becoming a parent.
• Whether they and their partners will be good enough parents.
• Whether their partners might get lonely or bored at home. The effect of parenthood on their work.
• About the baby –feeding, sleeping and changing the baby • .
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What goes wrong?
• Parent education is often seen as a low priority
• Lack of training and support• Link between provision of information and
care received.• Philosophy and approach
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How to make it right
• Education on clinical care.• Predetermined learning outcomes.• Advice or information.• Maintaining or challenging the status quo.• Charismatic teaching or persuasion.• Patchwork classes.• Parent-centred classes.
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Sources of Information in Pregnancy
• Family & friends• Books, magazines, leaflets• Television • Internet• Midwives• Doctors & other health professionalsFenwick et al (2005)
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
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•Discussion•Written material•Demonstration•Peer Instruction •Lecture•Debate•Modelling•Visualisation•Rehearsal•Video/DVD
But….. We remember
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we see and hear
80% of what we say
90% of what we say and do
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
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• Time constraints• Language and literacy barriers• Anxiety/ stress• Failure to assess individual needs• Informed compliance rather than informed choice
(Stapleton et al 2002)
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Any Questions?
Quality Education for a Healthier Scotland
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• Adults bring a lot of experience to their learning and there are many differing styles that can be used to support learning
• Adults attending parent education classes want to learn
• The role of the facilitator is important