Luder,

After reading your reflection it came to my senses that I should also think twice or even thrice before fulfilling my desire, to be in the academe. I am only 22 and have been working as a staff nurse for 9 months. Before enrolling in the masteral program in UERM I feel that I am ready to teach, however after listening to Sir Butcon last night. I realized that I need to polish my attitude, learn more about instructional designing and prepare myself in using an effective method in teaching.
Moreover, I am challenged by the idea that I need to develop myself more, to be an efficient educator.

Sir, I would just like to ask, whether the learner-centerd approach and the principles underlying instructional design poses greater chances of acceptability in Philippine education setting? And if so, how far are we as to the applicability/ feasibility of the instructional methods if are now currently employed in some universities in the Philippines?

I would like to reflect on my first reflection, if I may. It seems that I was so negative. I hope you don't get me wrong. Like all of you, I too was inspired by last night’s discussion. Aside from all the bickering in my first reflection, I also realized how beautiful and meaningful teaching can be. As I said it’s just short of raising the students as your own children.

I don’t mean to kiss ass… but the way sir butcon talked about teaching last night… You can see it in his eyes that THIS! is where he wants to be, THIS! is what he wants to do. I was really taken by the discussion. Then I thought, what would happen if all of the teachers we had were like this? My hat’s off to you sir! You’re doing a very good job!

Mark my words guys… I will become a nurse educator!!!

Hi kriselda,

As a novice Instructor in UERM, acceptance of being still inequipped with teaching skills is already a good sign that you will become a good educator. Intellectual humility opens rooms for growth and development. i do believe that we have all the skills to teach and what we need to do is to practice it.

To put my feelings into writing, I wrote the verse above. The thought of having so many options and tools to use in teaching simply overwhelmed me with excitement! Having taught for barely 2 months, it has been my passion to instill knowledge and learning to my students. I even went through a few researches about techniques and tools in teaching the moment my teaching load was given to me. Yet, having attended the lecture last night simply made me feel “lacking but having more.”

Upon hearing the lecturer last night, I felt lacking in terms of instructional design; to put it more blatantly, I felt so novice and naïve in the teaching field. During my 2 months of teaching Human Anatomy and Physiology to Nursing students, I already had some feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. I assessed the learning styles of my students and implemented several kinds of tools, including movies on gross dissection, small group discussions, lectures, reporting, demonstrations, and concept mapping. Yet, Sir Butcon’s presentation last night showed me a vast number of techniques and tools available for use in teaching. With that, I felt so naïve with having used just a few for the past 2 months.

On the other hand, I felt that I have something more after I have listened to last night’s presentation. I became more interested than before in teaching, knowing that I will be able to have an education expert’s guidance in curriculum and instruction principles. Before, I only saw curriculum development as the job of higher administrators, yet here I am starting to learn about developing a curriculum. Having very high goals in life, I thought I can use this when I finally run a system in the future! Also, I was able to appreciate better the fact that having curriculum and instruction knowledge will make me a better critic and leader in the future.

Having both Jesuit and Lasallian formation, I really felt inclined to learner-centered principles. Now I realize what my previous teachers and professors have been doing; they have been varying their teaching techniques. Because of that, I became very interested to do the same to my students. Indeed, the instructional design overview last night gave me positive mixed feelings and eagerness to teach!

Hi luder,

As a father of four, learner-centered and behavioral-scientific approach is perfect for me to be able to provide equal treatment to each unique characteristics of my children. I am sharing this to you to emphasize your point that part of what we learned last night was just like raising children.

i do believe you will be a good nurse educator.

luder,

indeed prof butcon is a very effective educator. extremely toxic to the point that we sometimes feel inadequate and have thoughts of quitting sometimes due to coping difficulties but highly effective...

evan, unlike you, i have a bit of apprehension when attending activities where i seem to have to represent my school. Whenever i tell people what school i came from. they always ask me, "san un?" i don't have the luxury of lifting my head up and shout at the top of my voice, " i came from a top nursing school!"

it is sometimes a buren that even after passing the board exam, i still have to carry my school's name. now i'm thinking, i shoul've just waited 1 yrear! then i could've been accepted in UST Coll of Nursing! but no.... i had no time to wait! i'll settle for this school instead.

With this said, is it hipocritical of me when i say that i want to teach in SACI? i want to make a difference there. i want to take everything i'll learn in UERMMC and do what i can so that i may lessen the number of frustrated graduates.

Glad to hear that you are "positively" challenged!

Jesson

Cristina Mariano wrote:

With last night’s discussion relating to the underlying concepts of Curriculum, Instruction and Learner-Centered Principles, I have been overwhelmed by the challenge of what encompass the entire subject matter. Teaching and Staff training is indeed a continuous process which involves paired existence of professional learning and growth. The challenge of creatively constructing a method that will suit every personality or intelligence of a student is a painstaking but fulfilling role on the part of the instructor if each of the students’ need is met. The learner-centered approach is a very capable scheme in teaching. Its principles really focus and help students learn by themselves with the guidance of their instructor and along the process, independence blossoms. I for my personal experience as a student have also been taught the traditional way, cannot guarantee myself that I have absorbed most of the topics that have been taught to us. And I must say that this is the dare to educators to device a method that will help students enjoy not become bored as they are learning. Inclusion of lively drills, games, humor, technology and multi-dimensional teaching principles into instructor’s methods of instruction could be a great tool especially today, where the door to contemporary world of learning is through capturing student’s interests and attending to their needs in the most knowledgeable way. The surprise of enrolling in a masteral program is learning with eagerness and self motivation. Being used to spoon feeding type of learning has placed a negative habit of dependence on the teacher but now, the challenge for me as I am in this course will be of great help to improve myself learn and grow professionally. The knowledge of this course will surely be a great vehicle for educational improvement that sooner or later we will use when we are educators, administrators, and trainers as well.

[quote="patmarban"][center]More knowledge, more exciting
A lot to know about teaching
My cup of knowledge is overflowing
All these need implementing![/center

the verse above struck me most. what we have learned last night poses a great challenge to everyone and implementing what we learne and what we are going to learn bears the greatest burden. Maybe, it will be effective if we can both practice it while we are learning the skills.

Like what Prof. Butcon said last night, the frameworks or models that nursing schools are implementing should be reassessed every most often if it adheres to the goals of the school or the organization, this is the part where the need for tedious process of scrutinizing be done so that the products(students) be competitively known and bring within them the knowledge and values (sciencia y' virtud) they learned from school enhanced by their practical experience. A good formulation of the goals and objectives as well as methodological strategies to implement them is one weak point certain institutions which is blinded by the high demand of the nursing profession.. We, as soon to be administrators should not be one of them but instead carry on with us the knowledge we'll gain from this class..

Dear Patrick,

That is how we learn. We first have to accept that we need to learn! Its not bad to feel we are so novice at work.

I am glad to read your reflection. Your humility will make you better everyday. Glad to have you in my class.

Jesson

patmarban wrote:

More knowledge, more exciting A lot to know about teaching My cup of knowledge is overflowing All these need implementing! To put my feelings into writing, I wrote the verse above. The thought of having so many options and tools to use in teaching simply overwhelmed me with excitement! Having taught for barely 2 months, it has been my passion to instill knowledge and learning to my students. I even went through a few researches about techniques and tools in teaching the moment my teaching load was given to me. Yet, having attended the lecture last night simply made me feel “lacking but having more.” Upon hearing the lecturer last night, I felt lacking in terms of instructional design; to put it more blatantly, I felt so novice and naïve in the teaching field. During my 2 months of teaching Human Anatomy and Physiology to Nursing students, I already had some feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. I assessed the learning styles of my students and implemented several kinds of tools, including movies on gross dissection, small group discussions, lectures, reporting, demonstrations, and concept mapping. Yet, Sir Butcon’s presentation last night showed me a vast number of techniques and tools available for use in teaching. With that, I felt so naïve with having used just a few for the past 2 months. On the other hand, I felt that I have something more after I have listened to last night’s presentation. I became more interested than before in teaching, knowing that I will be able to have an education expert’s guidance in curriculum and instruction principles. Before, I only saw curriculum development as the job of higher administrators, yet here I am starting to learn about developing a curriculum. Having very high goals in life, I thought I can use this when I finally run a system in the future! Also, I was able to appreciate better the fact that having curriculum and instruction knowledge will make me a better critic and leader in the future. Having both Jesuit and Lasallian formation, I really felt inclined to learner-centered principles. Now I realize what my previous teachers and professors have been doing; they have been varying their teaching techniques. Because of that, I became very interested to do the same to my students. Indeed, the instructional design overview last night gave me positive mixed feelings and eagerness to teach!

on another subject sir jesson is there a way to make the fonts bigger and more contrasting? hard to read everything kasi and the menus above dont seem to work.or my eyes may have already been strained since i was here quite early

perhaps huge green colored fonts? hehe...

Sir Gary, you have tackled a lot of aspects with last night’s discussion, from the teaching styles and covert/overt objectives to the Lasallian heritage. Apparently, we came from the same nursing school and I agree that there is indeed a difference in the method of learning in Dr. Carlos Lanting when compared to UERM. I hope that now we’re learning about curriculum and development we can see the weaknesses of other organizations and turn it to positive by learning from their mistakes and applying the knowledge we get from our discussions to our own values.