Strategies for Creating Teachable Moments

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Strategies for Creating Teachable Moments

• Marisue Cody, PhD
• Deputy Director, PRIDE

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Objectives

• Review adult learning principles
• Identify teachable moments in research
• Discuss strategies for creating a learning
  organization culture

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Andragogy Core adult learning principles

• Learners need to know
• Why
• What
• How
• Self-concept of the learner
• Autonomous
• Self-directing

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• Prior experience of the learner
• Resource
• Mental models
• Readiness to learning
• Life related
• Developmental task

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• Orientation to learning
• Problem centered
• Contextual
• Motivation to learn
• Intrinsic value
• Personal payoff

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Take advantage of experiences at hand, creating a
spontaneous opportunity that demonstrates a skill
or principle.
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What is a teachable moment?

• moment of educational opportunity a time at
  which a person, especially those new to an idea,
  is likely to be particularly disposed to learn
  something or particularly responsive to being
  taught or made aware of something

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What is experience?
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's
experience.- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The
Professor at the Breakfast Table, Ch. 10 We can
have in life but one great experience at best,
and the secret of life is to reproduce that
experience as often as possible.- Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Ch. 17
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Phelps' marijuana photo a 'teachable moment'
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The teachable moment it is often incredibly
uncomfortable and confronting.
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VA Research teachable moments?
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Audits

• Chance for feedback on what you have done both
  right and wrong

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Observation

• Subject enrollment and consent

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When something goes wrong
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QUESTIONS