Teaching Assistant Reflection Student School of Nursing, California State University, Sacramento. NURS 173: Theoretical Foundations in Leadership and Management. Professor Tara Sharpp. April 17, 2024. Teaching Assistant Reflection The teaching assistant assignment that was required for this course was a great learning experience and gave me the opportunity to show other nursing students my knowledge in demonstrating clinical skills. For this assignment, I contacted Dr. Jennifer Holt. She is a medical surgical instructor for second semester nursing students. I volunteered to be a teaching assistant for her on a day where students were being reintroduced to older skills before they went into the hospital setting. I was assigned to the …show more content…
Application of Readings to My Teaching There was a lot of helpful information in the required reading we had prior to this teaching assistant experience. The readings did a great job of preparing me on how to give effective and constructive feedback to students. It is essential that nursing instructors do everything they can to provide respectful and constructive feedback to their students. Being able to do so needs to be learned to be an effective instructor. According to Zsohar and Smith, when constructive feedback is provided, it shows students that you as an instructor are committed to the importance of their clinical practice (Zsohar and Smith, 2009). Feedback is necessary so that the nursing students can grow and improve on their clinical skills from their experiences (Gigante et al., 2011). During this clinical skills day, I was able to provide helpful feedback that will benefit the nursing students and their future. Conclusion: This was a great learning experience that really benefitted me and my understanding of teaching clinical skills. I had a lot of fun getting to know students and giving them tips and tricks that I learned from when I was a student, practicing the same skills. I was
Being a Good Tutor Tutoring, you think it is the easiest job that you could have. You think so because of the flexibility of time, and the only thing you need to do is be there on time to help students (Tutees) with the subject that they have difficulty understanding, which you obviously have the full knowledge about because you earned an ‘A’ or ‘B’ in earlier semesters. However, all that you were thinking is definitely wrong. The tutees don’t care how much you know, until they know how much
that I need to improve on to be successful in school, but I am going to focus on three of them for now. My grammar has not always been a strong point in my writing. Although I do fairly well on my writing assignments, my English teachers have mentioned my grammatical errors in past assignments. My resources for improving my grammar were, Grammarbook.com, Writing-program.uchicago.edu, and “The Little Seagull Handbook.” I also have trouble with shyness, which affects me whenever I have to do presentations
When it comes to college you have many decisions to make, what school do I go to, what do I want to study, how am I going to pay for it. After those decisions are made you would think that good I don’t have too many more tough decisions to make, and then research papers. You think that this shouldn’t be too bad you know the information fairly well just need supporting facts. You throw a few searches into Google and each time Wikipedia is the first response back. You think to yourself, they came up
Master Tutor Final Reflective Essay As a master tutor for Art I I have had to interact with many different type of students and artist. I had many successes as well as areas of improvement which I intend to solve. It has been my first year being a master tutor for an art class and I find it is much different than any other subject. In core classes it is easier to provide help to every student because the student knows that there are certain rules you must obey whereas in art, you are free to express
Statement of Teaching Philosophy “A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.” … Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel prize in literature in 1913) This is my favorite quotation because it express what, I think
Tutoring and the ‘Conversation of Mankind,’ he discusses conversation and its place within the context of “collaborative learning.” Bruffee argues that “thought and writing are special artifacts grounded in conversation. As such, both are fostered by teaching that emphasizes conversational exchange among peers” (Intro, 3). He believes that thought originates in conversation. In general, conversation is a social artifact that can be internalized to encourage thought. Bruffee values peer tutoring so much
Going into this experience I was crapping my pants. Being a freshman student going into college for the first time. Not doing so well on the placement test was the catastrophe that landed me into English 091. So my dad already being pissed off at me, I go into the class knowing my parents are disappointed only for myself to become disappointed that I was required to drive to Chandler every Tuesday which is like twenty miles away from my house. I was mentally infuriated but I had to maintain a smile
tasks such as opening a can. Whether someone finally grasps a math concept that he could not understand in class or realizes what the word “loquacious” means, people experience many epiphanies over the course of a day. My epiphany occurred while teaching, something that students do not generally get to partake in. While tutoring a few children, I learned life-long lessons that I would not have encountered in my life otherwise. “You can go talk to Mrs. Reisig, she teaches fourth grade down in the
Imagine you're playing in a volleyball match. The setter sets up the ball for you and you come in, and slam the ball to the floor. In many ways, peer tutoring is like volleyball. The tutee is the hitter, and the tutor is the setter. In this situation, they are peers that the coach, or teacher, put together to score the point, or get the A+. See, the tutor is always trying to make the tutee better. Most peer tutoring programs have had positive results. Many studies prove them to be cost effective
had no serious thought about becoming a professor or teaching in the future and did not know what I was getting myself into when emailing you about the course. I only knew that it was a great opportunity and that despite my introversion and social anxiety I was to try my hardest to become part of the team. After the first meeting I knew this class would help and force me to grow – I have yet to be proven wrong. My first day as a teaching assistant (TA) was surprisingly exciting – eye contact still
while the writer gives insight into a little known facet of the S.U. Writing Program: the peer consultants. History The textbook definition of peer tutoring is "a system of instruction in which learners help each other and learn (themselves) by teaching," (Goodlad and Hirst 13). Key to this definition is the word peer, meaning someone with the same or a nearly equal status as the person being tutored, who, as such, is not a professional instructor. Peer tutoring has played an important part in education
College is meant to prepare you for your future career and the real world. So far I feel like I’m adjusting to the fact that I’m on my own here at King’s and don’t have my parents telling me what to do all the time. Becoming independent is a big key that you realize in college and I believe I will definitely utilize that in the real world. So far my experience with college has been good. College is a lot of work and I expected that so I wasn’t surprised when I had days where I had to spend a couple
After graduating high school, I attended Weatherford Community College for two years, and then transferred to the University of Houston. At the University of Houston, I quickly learned that there are several opportunities in mathematics besides teaching in high school, and those opportunities, which often involve problem solving,
can help their students see that literacy and school knowledge could be a potent weapon” (pg xi). Teachers are the doors for many students into many facets of literacy. Teachers are not only teaching students common day grammar rules, but they are teaching concepts that technology cannot grasp. They are teaching to effectively assist every individual in the classroom as well as how to integrate their own
During my time at UMass Amherst I was given an opportunity to be a teaching assistant (TA) for an integrated experience kinesiology course. I had taken the class the prior semester and the professor noticed my hard work, dedication, and leadership role with in my group and asked me to come work with her. This course is a group project that requires students to work together to build a wellness program for a target population with a chronic disease. At the end of the semester each group presents their