GAANN

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• GAANN
• Supervised Teaching Experience
• Sue A. Thomas, PhD, RN, FAAN
• University of Maryland
• School of Nursing

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Evaluation Criteria for Supervised Teaching

• Provides each fellow with required supervised
  training in instruction
• Provides adequate instruction on effective
  techniques
• Provides extensive supervision, and
• Provides evaluation.

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Supervised Teaching Experiences

• Post Masters Certificate in Teaching in Nursing
  and Health Professions
• 3 required courses and one elective
• One of the required courses is a practicum
• 12 credits total

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Criteria One and Two

• Provides each fellow with required supervised
  training in instruction
• Provides adequate instruction on effective
  techniques
• Achieved in two online or in class room courses

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Theoretical Foundations of Teaching and Learning

• Provides a foundation in theory and application
  of essential knowledge for education
• Content includes the teaching/learning process,
  the learning environment, organizational
  standards, theories of learning, and organization
  of teaching and learning

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Instructional Strategies and Assessment of
Learning

• Provides instructional strategies appropriate to
  the learning style of adults and to the topic
• A full range of educational technology and
  simulation technology
• Theory and practice of the assessment of learning
• Basic measurement principles of reliability and
  validity, test construction, assessing skill
  acquisition and competence, and interpreting
  results from measures

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Criteria Three and Four

• Provides extensive supervision, and
• Provides evaluation
• Achieved in second required course and practicum

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Practicum in Teaching

• Applied practicum of teaching experiences
  (average of 9 hours/week - 8 of these in
  practicum activities and 1 in seminar activities)
• Individual aspects of the practicum will be
  negotiated between the student, preceptor, and
  faculty facilitator in a learning contract
• Synthesis of aspects of role development
  activities in this course and aspects of
  course/program evaluation will be accomplished in
  an asynchronous on-line seminar.

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Evaluation of Teaching

• In the second course
• Videotape teaching experience
• Evaluated by peers and faculty
• Feedback on improving performance
• In the teaching practicum teaching is evaluated
  by the learners, preceptor and student

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Teaching Grand Rounds

• Monthly forums
• Topics including learned centered education, on
  line teaching strategies and evaluation of
  teaching effectiveness

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Example GAANN Supervised Experience

• Worked with preceptor in the pathophysiology
  course
• Test item refinement and test item analysis
• Lectured in course on Hypothermia in Traumatic
  Brain Injury