Reflecting on my Teaching Experience

I had only one week between the day I scheduled my teaching project and the actual teaching day. I was so nervous during the whole week that I started to wonder if teaching was really for me! Luckily a day before my class I became calm and relaxed, and I thank God for that because in the end everything went well. Dr. Miller came to me before I started teaching and talking to her made me feel more at ease because she is so nice and understanding. The students were great, they participated and they even thanked me at the end. I felt good after having this opportunity of teaching, and I believe this is a fun and efficient way of imparting our knowledge to the next generation. We live in a crisis where there is a shortage of nurse instructors, and our contribution as future nurse instructors is truly needed.

Josephine

Reflecting on Evaluation of Learning

Yesterday I was able to schedule my teaching project for next week. I will be teaching eighty-five nursing students who are graduating this December. This will be a large group for my first teaching experience and I’m very nervous, wish me good luck. My topic content took me forever to put it in power point presentation with pictures and one short video. This was my first time using a power point format. I had to modify some of my objectives and teaching techniques after finding out the amount of students I will be teaching. In order to know if learning has taken place after my teaching session, I will use my objectives as a guideline and I will give the student a quiz at the end of the presentation.

Josephine