Storytelling And Reflective Pedagogy: Transforming Nursing Education Through Faculty Development

Pedagogy of reflective writing in professional education

Educators in professional programs are challenged to utilize pedagogical approaches that best prepare students with knowledge, values, and skills for professional practice. Providing academic content alone may not provide the problem-solving skills necessary for practice in a complex world in which practitioners must analyze, evaluate, and revise knowledge. Thus, reflective process becomes a co...

Partners In Pedagogy: Faculty Development Through the Scholarship of Teaching

Reflective teaching pedagogy as innovative approach in teacher education through open and distance learning

Reflective teaching methodology involves questioning one own self to bring perfection by asking the following questions: • Which teaching model am I using? • How does it apply in specific teaching situations? • How well is it working? Teacher educator should apply this theory in classroom practice, in order observe and reflects on the results so that the classroom becomes a kind of laboratory w...

Faculty development through simulation-based education in physical therapist education

Background The use of simulation-based education (SBE) in health professions, such as physical therapy, requires faculty to expand their teaching practice and development. The impact of this teaching on the individual faculty member, and how their teaching process changes or develops, is not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to explore individual physical therapist faculty members...

Transforming care at the bedside for nurse faculty: can continuous quality improvement transform nursing education?

I recently attended a National League for Nursing meeting of top nursing researchers, educators, and leaders. Among the purposes of the meeting was the need to identify gaps in and opportunities to create knowledge to improve nursing education. Although meeting participants discussed several exciting efforts currently underway to improve nursing education, the journal editors attending lamented...