3. Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants
will be able to:
• Identify prerequisites of choosing a teaching
strategy
• Enlist different educational strategies or
methods for medical education
• Correlate each teaching method with
learning domain / objectives
• Appreciate advantages and disadvantages of
educational strategies.
• Identify general principles for choosing multiple
teaching methods
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4. Choosing a teaching method ?
• Adult learning principles
• Human memory processing
• Multiple intelligences
• Learning styles
• Skill acquisition
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10. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE
• Intelligence is intellectual potential;
something we are born with, that can be
measured, and that is difficult to change.
• Theory of multiple intelligences proposed
by a psychologist Howard Gardner.
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18. Educational methods
• Education strategies / methods
are the ways and means to
achieve the learning objectives
• Components :
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Contents Methods
19. Contents of a teaching
session
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• Derived from objectives
• Should not be too little / too
overwhelming
• To be in a logical sequence
21. HANDS ON
• Write down two teaching methods for a
medical student
• These methods correlate best for which
domain of Bloom’s Texonomy?
• Enlist advantage and disadvantage of those
methods
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22. Basic Principle for
choosing educational
method
• Congruence b/w objectives and
methods
Cognitive objectives
Psychomotor objectives
Affective objective
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23. Educational Methods for
Cognitive objectives
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• Reading
• Lecture
• Discussion
• Audiovisual material
• Problem-based learning
24. Purpose of Lecture
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• Introducing a new /difficult topic
• Overview of a topic / theme
• Up-to-date review of research
• Linking research and practice
• Stimulating curiosity of students
25. Educational methods for
Psychomotor objectives
• Supervised clinical experience
• Audio or visual review of skills
• Simulations
• Models
• Role plays
• Standardized patients
• Lab practicals in basic sciences
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26. Educational methods for
Affective objectives
• Exposure; readings, discussions, sharing
experiences
• Facilitation of openness & reflection
• Role modeling
• Mentoring
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33. MULTIPLE EDUCATIONAL
METHODS
• Avoid mismatch between teaching methods and
multiple learning styles
• Accommodate large number of learners’ needs
in a short period of time
• Maintain learner interest
• Help learner in reinforcement of learning
process
• Achieve higher order objectives that span
several learning domains
• Consider feasibility; faculty time, space, availability
of clinical material and cost, learner time
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