Teaching and Learning Methodology for Nurses: Learning Theories, Educational Objectives, Lesson Planning, Micro-Teaching and Clinical Teaching

A complete teaching methodology course. It begins with the learning process and the theories of learning - behaviourism, Piaget's four stages of cognitive development, Bruner's assimilation theory, Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, cognitive flexibility, instructional transaction, Merrill's component display theory and observational learning - then educational objectives across the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains with the action verbs for each and the benefits of writing them. Teaching approaches follow with the lesson plan, its implementation strategies and the selection of an appropriate method, then problem-solving teaching, self-directed learning, and micro-teaching with its skill practice, phases and reinforcement. The clinical sections cover bedside teaching, nursing rounds, staff conferences, discussion, brainstorming, process recording and the laboratory method, then instructional materials with their principles of selection and use, and assessment of teaching and learning with the objective structured practical examination. The last part is curriculum development, its orientations and influencing factors, competency-based and performance-based training, the levels of curriculum change and the role of the clinical preceptor.