Assessment of Learning Needs and Teaching Strategy Presentation
Unit 6
The purpose of this assignment is to facilitate the student’s understanding of how to select and utilize appropriate creative teaching strategies to support the diverse learning styles for a group of learners.
Assignment Criteria:
1. Identify a potential clinical issue, specific nursing course content, or other appropriate nurse-based problem that would be appropriate for a nurse educator to address in a small or large group setting.
2. Identify which setting you would present the chosen topic, either a small or large group setting. Include a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of your selected setting.
3. Select and discuss 2-3 creative teaching strategies that would be appropriate to use during the teaching of your selected issue in either a small or large group setting.
4. Provide a rationale for inclusion of your selected creative strategies and provide a clear outline of how these strategies would be used by the educator in the setting you selected.
5. Identify how your selected strategies would support diverse learning styles and needs of the learners.
6. Discuss how you would assess the success of your use of selected strategies in the setting you selected.
Grading Criteria:
For this assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation addressing all of the assignment criteria. Additionally, you will include a voice recording explaining in detail your teaching plan. A PowerPoint file with voice recording should be submitted via the assignment dropbox. It is expected that current references from textbooks and scholarly journals will be used and appropriately cited on the PowerPoint slides. Your PowerPoint presentation should be limited to 15-20 minutes. Use the following rubric as a guide.
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Criteria | Exceptional | Effective | Developing | Unacceptable |
Introduction Introduce your selected issue. Address the importance of your selected issue for nursing education. | Exceptional Introduction provides excellent context for the rest of the presentation. (5 Points) | Effective. Introduction provides effective context for the rest of presentation. (3 Points) | Developing. Introduction provides minimal context for the presentation. (1 Point) | Unacceptable. Introduction does not provide context for the presentation. OR No introduction was provided. OR No assignment submitted. (0 points) |
Discussion of Educational Setting: • Identify the selected setting • Provide an overview of the pros and cons of the selected instructional setting | Exceptional. The presentation meets and adequately addresses all criteria (see criteria column). (5 points) | Effective The presentation meets and adequately addresses all criteria (see criteria column). (3 points) | Developing The presentation meets and adequately addresses all criteria (see criteria column). (1 point) | Unacceptable. Does not sufficiently address criteria or addresses less than two of the criteria OR no assignment submitted. (0 points) |
Identification of Teaching Strategies: 1. Select and discuss 2-3 creative teaching strategies that would be appropriate to use during the teaching of your selected issue in either a small or large group setting 2. Addresses how the selected strategies apply to the challenges or advantages of the selected setting | Exceptional. The presentation meets and adequately addresses all of the criteria (see criteria column). (20 points) | Effective. The presentation meets and/or adequately addresses some of the criteria (see criteria column). (15 – 20 points) | Developing. The presentation meets and adequately addresses only one of the criteria (see criteria column). (5 – 10 points) | Unacceptable. Does not sufficiently address criteria OR no assignment submitted. (0 Points) |
Discussion of Teaching Strategy: 1. Provides rationale for inclusion of selected strategies. 2. Provides a clear outline of how these strategies would be used 3. Identify how selected strategies would support diverse learning styles and needs 4. Discusses how the educator would assess success of selected strategies | Exceptional. The presentation meets and adequately addresses of the criteria (see criteria column). (25 points) | Effective. The presentation meets and adequately addresses three of the criteria (see criteria column). (15 points) | Developing. The presentation meets and adequately addresses two of the criteria (see criteria column). ( 10 points) | Unacceptable. Does not sufficiently address criteria or addresses less than two of the criteria OR no assignment submitted. ( 0 points) |
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Conclusion and Summary Conclusion: Discuss how the use of teaching strategies can be used to facilitate learning with various groups of students, and nursing students. Summary: Identify the key points covered in the presentation, provide a concluding statement, and ask for questions. | Exceptional. The presentation thoroughly summarizes the findings associated with the key concepts as outlined by the assignment criteria. (20 – points) | Effective. The presentation effectively summarizes the findings associated with the key concepts as outlined by the assignment criteria. (15 – points) | Developing. The presentation attempts to summarize the findings associated with the key concepts as outlined by the assignment criteria. (10 points) | Unacceptable. The presentation does not provide a summary or conclusion OR no assignment submitted. (0 points) |
Grammar & APA Formatting of References and In-text Citations Adheres to APA guidelines and represents scholarly work. The presentation text is clearly written with no errors in spelling, grammar, word order, word usage, and punctuation. 1. | Exceptional. The presentation text is clearly written with no errors in spelling, grammar, word order, word usage, and punctuation and the correct use of APA formatting has been met without error. (5 - points) |
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| Unacceptable. Greater than six errors in spelling, grammar, word order, word usage, punctuation and/or does not adhere to APA formatting OR no assignment submitted. (0 – points) |
Oral Presentation: 1. Verbal skills/grammar, 2. professional dress, 3. audio-visuals, 4. engagement with audience; 5. response to questions, 6. and adherence to allotted time frame (15- 20min). | Exceptional. The presentation meets and adequately addresses all six of the criteria (see criteria column). (20 – points) | Effective. The presentation meets and adequately addresses three to five of the criteria (see criteria column). (15 – points) | Developing. The presentation meets and adequately addresses less than two of the criteria (see criteria column). (10 – points) | Unacceptable. The presentation does not sufficiently address criteria OR no assignment submitted. (0 – points) |
Note – a failure in any criterion will result in a failure for the overall assignment. As per the incomplete policy, students have two weeks following the last day of the course term to submit the required coursework or the incomplete will be changed to an F.
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| MSN Course Wrap-up Discussion Grading Rubric Week 8 |
| ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL |
Criteria | Exceptional | Effective | Acceptable | Developing | Unacceptable |
Initial post: Timeliness | Initial post completed by the first day of the week. (20 points) |
| Initial post completed by the second day of the week. (16 points) |
| No initial post submitted. (0 points) |
Initial post: Completeness of Discussion Prompt Submitted a complete initial post. Addresses all the following elements: • Answered all question prompts. • Identified, interpreted, or inferred to the discussion topic being addressed. • Explored and/or explained the topic and how it applied to the discussion forum. • Analyzed the topic being discussed and applied it to a fact and/or advocated a position or recommendation. | Addresses all the required material (see criteria column). (30 points) | Submitted an incomplete post. Missing 1 of the required elements. (25 points) | Submitted an incomplete post. Missing 2 of the required elements. (20 points) | Submitted an incomplete post. Missing 3 of the required elements. (15 points) | No initial post submitted, or post was severely off target in addressing the discussion question/ topic. (0 points) |
Peer Responses: Discussion Board Engagement Posted on 1 additional day after initial discussion post. | Addresses all the required material (see criteria column). (20 points) |
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| Not present on any other day after the initial post. (0 points) |
Peer Responses: Substantial Replies Posted at least two substantial replies to peers to drive the discussion forward. Substantial replies successfully show: • evidence of accurately interpreting topical knowledge • identifying relevant arguments • evaluating alternative points of view • justifying key results | Addresses all the required material (see criteria column). (20 points) | Posted at least two replies to peers, but only one peer response met the criteria for a substantial peer post. (15 points) | Posted only one peer response that met the criteria for a substantial peer post. (10 points) | Posted one peer response that did not meet the criteria for a substantial peer post. (5 points) | No peer responses or responses were limited to yes/no or I agree/I disagree. (0 points) |
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Initial Post and Peer Responses Written Communication Posts contain proper spelling and grammar and include 0-1 error. Student organized the content, the flow was logical and clear, and the student's writing included the use of professional language. | Addresses all the required material (see criteria column). (10 points) | Posts contain 2- 3 grammar/ spelling errors. (7 points) | Posts contain 4- 5 grammar/ spelling errors. (5 points) | Posts contain greater than 5 grammar/ spelling errors. (3 points) | No discussion posts submitted. (0 points) |
Note – a failure in any criterion will result in a failure for the overall assignment. As per the incomplete policy, students have two weeks following the last day of the course term to submit the required coursework or the incomplete will be changed to an F.
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