Adding Sparkle to Weds Tutorials

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Adding Sparkle to Weds Tutorials

• Dr. Ramesh Mehay
• Programme Director, Bradford VTS

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3 types of slides
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TASK 1 - Lets Set the Agenda

• What do you want from this session?
• 10 minutes to reflect
• Re-group

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Aims

• To re-energise teachers and their approaches
• How to hook your audience
• To expose teachers to a variety of teaching
  styles (repertoire)
• Reflect on feedback since 2004
• Helping you to deliver Weds tutorials more
  effectively
• Helping you feel youve done a good job

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Objectives

• To redefine the purpose of Weds tutorials
• Working out the audiences learning needs
  hooking them
• Defining the content
• Teaching methods/styles
• Providing structure
• Closing teaching sessions
• Evaluating your session

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FAQs if we have time

• How to look confident Dealing with questions
• How not to over plan?
• Setting Preparatory work
• How to Use PowerPoint
• Looking at Handouts
• Weds tutorial feedback themes that emerge

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HOW DOES THAT SOUND?

• Are you hooked?

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TASK 2 Whats the point?

• Whats the purpose of Weds Tutorials (what do u
  think?)
• Groupettes, flip chart
• Regroup and present
• Activity time 10 mins PLUS 5 min to present

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Why did I get you to do that activity?
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PURPOSE, PURPOSE AND PURPOSE

• If you dont know what youre trying to achieve,
  how do you know if you did your job well?

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Keynote Slide 1 The FIVE educational principles

• There are 5 educational principles you need to
  know
• The educational cycle
• The three Cs
• Androgogy vs Pedagogy
• Domains of Learning
• Millers Pyramid

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Keynote Slide 2 The Educational Cycle
ALWAYS FOLLOW THIS AND YOU CANNOT GO WRONG
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Keynote Slide 3 The Three Cs
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Keynote Slide 4 Androgogy vs Pedagogy
as an educational facilitator, you need to
promote this
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Keynote Slide 5 The hook

• Get your audience HOOKED
• If theyre not hooked, how can u expect them to
  be engaged
• Their mouths must be dripping wet
• but the real question is
• How do you get them hooked?

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TASK 3 hooks

• In your groupettes
• One of you think of a tutorial you recently
  presented
• How would you hook your audience (10 mins, 5 min
  discussion)

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Keynote Slide 6 Aims and Objectives

• ALWAYS define the aims and objectives of any
  teaching session (whats the difference?)
• Helps you
• hooks the audience
• define what you are trying to achieve (content)
• decide how deliver it (methodology)
• Helps you keep on track
• determine whether you got there (self reflection)
• do an evaluation (feedback)

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Aims Objectives

• Aims are general
• better insight into management of COPD
• Objectives are specific
• understand the different therapies and their
  step line use (GOLD)

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JoHaris Window
the final agenda should be a merger of teachers
and learners agendas
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Okay, so now we know what were meant to be doing
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Task 4 But How Do We Know What They Want to Know?

• i.e. their learning needs
• Groupettes think of ways you might get this
  info.
• Can you remember what you had difficult with when
  you were starting off or even have now? (PUNs,
  DENs)
• From your experience with trainees so far, what
  are the common difficulties? (from PCAs, RCAs,
  CBDs, COTs, significant events)
• Ask you current trainee or email the audience
• Ask new young doctors in your practice
• Ask the PDs
• Review checklists sieve out whats really
  important for them to know (ESSENTIAL vs
  DESIRABLE)
• Search the net to see what others have done
  (flavour of ideas)

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Keynote Slide 7The Domains of Learning
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The Domains in More Detail

• Knowledge
• factual evolving evidence base
• Evaluating and using knowledge - critical
  appraisal application of knowledge
• Skills Competencies
• Clinical, Practical, Consultation, Communication,
  Problem solving
• Research and audit (evaluating and doing)
• Attitudes
• ethics etc self awareness commitment to
  maintaining standards
• Personal care for patients
• Practice context - practice issues regulatory
  framework
• Broader context - medico-political/legal/social

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TASK 5 - The Content

• Go back to the tutorial that youve chosen
• What was the content of what you did?
• What would you now do differently?
• Redefine the content use the presentation plan
  template
• 10 mins, 5 min discussion

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Methodologies

• Okay, we need to find effective methods to
  deliver the stuff (note plurality)

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Task 6 - Methodologies

• Lets brainstorm some different ways

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Methods of Instruction
The Traditional Lecture Debate Buzz groups Demonstration Trainee reading
Group discussion Case Based Learning/Discussion Problem based learning Modified Interactive lecture Trainee practise
The fishbowl Role play Simulation Balint Snowballing
Brainstorming Programmed instruction Microteaching Triadic Teaching Task groups
Field Trips Significant Events Videos, films, poetry, art Games/Quizes QA/FAQs
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Keynote Slide 8Millers Pyramid
Which level are you going for? Once chosen,
whats the best method?
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Keynote Slide 8Use the appropriate method

• Use the right method for what you are trying to
  achieve
• Use several methodologies in one session
  (dynamism, interest, different learner styles)

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A Special Note On Difficult Cases Gibbs
Reflective Cycle
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Task 7 Defining your methods

• Back in groups
• Look at the difficult tutorial
• Use the presentation plan template to define your
  method(s)
• Dont forget to use the right method for what you
  are trying to achieve. THIS IS THE KEY
• 10 mins, 5 min discussion

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Recap what weve done so far

• Assessing learning needs
• Formulating aims and objectives (agenda setting)
• Hence hooking the audience
• Defining the content
• Defining the methods to deliver that content

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Now were going to look at

• Providing structure throughout the session
• Building the relationship with your audience
• Closing the session
• Evaluating your session

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Providing Structure
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Why is structure so important?

• Brainstorm
• Provides a framework from which you can hang
  things off
• Provides a framework onto which the learner can
  construct their own knowledge (constructivism)
• Shows you and the audience where you are and
  where you are going next
• Makes the session easy to follow and understand
• Shows the audience how one thing links with
  another

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Task 8 How to Add Structure

• So far, try and think what things I have used to
  provide YOU structure in todays session
• Brainstorm
• Agenda setting flip chart
• Aims and Objectives - slide
• Signposting section slides, title slides, task
  slides
• Summarising key point slides, recap slides

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Task 9 Adding Structure

• And can you think of any ways to add more
  structure to your tutorial?

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Keynote Slide 9 Its all a bit like the
consultation

• Calgary-Cambridge Model of the Consultation
• Initiating the session
• Gathering Information
• Providing Structure
• Building the relationship
• Explanation Planning
• Closure

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Keynote Slide 10Ways to Build the Relationship

• Brainstorm
• Hook them
• YOUR language, behaviour, attitude
• Make it interactive (share thoughts, discuss)
• Understand their perspectives, feelings
  (acknowledge, accept, empathise, support,
  sensitivity)
• Provide flexibility
• Inject humour

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Doing the presentation

• Any tips?
• Make it interactive care with PowerPoint mania
• Light hearted bits
• Use your personal experience to illustrate
• Use their personal experience - ?Gibbs
  reflective cycle
• CONTINUOUSLY read your audience
• Move around!

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Closure

• Summarise what youve covered so far ?summary
  slide
• Questions Answers
• Revisit Aims Objectives covered?
• Handout to consolidate the learning
• Set future learning/guidance/references
• optional think purpose before doing

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Evaluation/Feedback

• Whats the point of evaluation?
• Who needs to do it newbies vs trainers vs v.
  well established trainers ????
• Evaluation to death
• Different ways of evaluating formal vs informal
• Reading the audience gives you some idea
• Weds tutorial evaluation what way do u take it?

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FAQs

• and common issues

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How to look confident

• Tips anyone?
• Look confident even if you dont feel it
• Dont put yourself down or start with negative
  statements
• sorry but I didnt quite have time to prepare
  much stuff
• its not my strong subject, but Ill have a go
• Fail to Prepare ? Prepare to Fail
• Piss Poor Preparation ? Piss Poor Performance
• Stuck with a question? ? reflect it back to the
  group
• Dont know how to proceed? ? reflect to the group
• Whats your role? Expert vs Facilitator?

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How Not To Over Plan

• Remember, you have a life of your own
• Plan think what they want to know
• Plan think what you really want to get across
• Plan - Build a mindmap then cross off stuff
• Review your material
• Essential vs
  Desirable
• (impt for the job) vs (nice to know)
• Set homework so you dont have to cover the
  basics
• Do the planning in bite size chunks feels less
  overwhelming

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Using PowerPoint

• Beware of PowerPoint mania
• Some Rules
• 4-8 lines per slide
• Font size 24 /readable colour
• Vary the PowerPoint effects but dont add
  distractions
• The Content
• Not too much writing conciseness
• Signpost Summary Slides
• The Process
• Deliver it in chunks (weave into other methods)

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Setting Preparatory Work

• First decide what are you trying to achieve by
  it?
• Foundation of knowledge before session?
• Help you concentrate on the meatier stuff
• Bring material for the session eg videos, cases
• Dont overload them
• Explain why it is important (success rates)
• Clear instructions, Keep It Simple
• Outline any possible problems (eg video)
• Dont waste resources use what they bring

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Looking at Handouts

• First decide what are you trying to achieve by
  it?
• Consolidation of knowledge
• Cover stuff you didnt have time for
• Links to other resources
• Remember, quite a lot of handouts dont get read!
• Dont overload them
• Explain why it is important (success rates)
• KEEP IT SIMPLE (summarise big documents, sieve
  out the crap, diagrams, flowcharts)

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Weds tutorial Feedback - themes

• Look at the handout
• Large Group Discussion
• Lets see if we can learn from the feedback
  (2004-2007) themes
• How can we do it better?

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What Makes a Good Teaching Session?

• Baggage section
• Tailored to learners learning style
• Dependent on learners knowledge and experience
• Get the learner to do the groundwork
• Use educational tools Videos
• Books and booklets
• Papers and articles
• electronic sources (software, internet)
• Giving the session context - link to experience
• Maintaining interest Interact
• Open-ended questions
• Give time
• Vary content
• Humour/Fun/Enjoyment

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Keynote Slide 11 The 4 stages of competency

• Like any other skill, practise makes perfect

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how was that?

• Did we do what we set to achieve?