Essential Question: What are my challenges and successes in implementing my unit?
Question 1 Guide on the side became the focus of my UbD unit. Although I have implemented various teaching opportunities I have found that many of the tools chosen for instruction necessitate feedback such as journaling and layers of revision of the care plan tool the student has provided. In the future I will create more peer to peer reviews for student growth. This will not only encourage student growth in the scaffolding of the tool it will also promote student ability to provide feedback and accept feedback which taps into a deeper level of who the student is as a person. Presentation of the various tools that students may choose from did not go quite as planned. In the future I will make it a point to become an expert in the tool use. I knew the basics of the tools yet had challenges when students ran into some problems that I did not explore. Some of these challenges were easily solved by other students who had stronger computer experience and were able to provide instruction to others who were more challenged. Challenge one--Personal lack of computer expertise: Browsers chosen for using care plan tool. The students have a choice to use Google Chrome, Firefox or explorer. The students chose Google Chrome which created the tool yet would not allow them to print the completed tool to our college printers. This is an note I have made for future unit presentations to ensure that students use appropriate browser for our college campus printers Challenge two--Student engagement: Engagement produced the need for one on one assistance to engage students who were not ready for the event of learning. Seven of my eight students attended the class. The one who did not attend was one I am very concerned about and despite reaching out and attempting to engage student they continue to remain distant to any group activity stating "I like to learn on my own". This would be ok if the student was excelling on their own however in nursing school we recognize that it is a group learning effort. Another student is actually withdrawn from the class due to grades yet attending classes to continue learning in hopes for reapplying in the future. Lastly one student was noted to be very drowsy upon arrival to class. She is a mother, wife, works and going to school. She had the heart to engage however difficulty understanding due to evident lack of sleep which was confirmed through discussion. Challenge three-- Integration into already established schedule: The unit created will be used in future classes for my nursing students however it will be part of the clinical hours and implemented much earlier in the semester. To complete these tasks of the unit I am having to flex other established schedules and do not expect full potential of the unit for this presentation. I do expect it has and will meet the final product goal of a completed Individualized nursing care plan yet I do not expect it will produce the in depth processing intended along the journey. Question 2 Planning Due to the units need for integration into existing schedule this posed a great challenge to my ideas. Nursing school is intense on its own and I felt a bit poorly about adding much more to the current load. I sought out something that the students could use assistance on and discovered that most of them were really struggling with creating individual nursing care plans on paper. There are tools in multiple books that simply needed to be tapped into. Upon assessment of how many students had explored their textbook online tools 7 out of 8 said "No". This assessment is what directed me for the topic of my unit. To prepare for teaching I had to personally explore the tools enough to be able to teach the students. This took time both in gaining access and understanding how the tool worked to meet the needs of the student. Once this was complete I set up the class which had very little warning--5 days. Finding a day and time that worked with their clinical hours, classes and work schedules on such a short notice was intimidating. A time was chosen prior to their regular class time simply asking them to come in 1.5 hours earlier. This was successful with exception to previous individual student challenges state earlier. Other activities are seen as easily incorporated into the current schedule with some adjustment to topics or reflection. Question 3 demonstration The idea of this unit is to ensure that students are able to create an individualized care plan for a client they have chosen during their clinical rotation. The students have begun to thrive with the newly implemented tools as evidence by student having a completed care plan at our last clinical rotation. Feedback was provided and students were instructed to revise plan accordingly to the criteria provided them. This is part of the scaffolding plan of learning for this unit. Next week they will bring a revised care plan which I will provide more feedback on for further revision. Overall this unit is working yet I am finding challenges to implementing the deeper personal growth throughout the process of learning due to time constraints.
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