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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Assignment: Assessment of Learning Needs and Teaching Strategy
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ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL
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Criteria
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Exceptional
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Effective
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Developing
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Unacceptable
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Introduction
Introduce your selected issue. Address the importance of your selected issue for nursing education.
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Exceptional
Introduction provides excellent context for the rest of the
presentation.
(5 Points)
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Effective.
Introduction provides effective context for the rest of
presentation.
(3 Points)
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Developing.
Introduction provides minimal context for the presentation.
(1 Point)
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Unacceptable.
Introduction does not provide context for the presentation.
OR No introduction was provided.
OR No assignment submitted.
(0 points)
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Discussion of Educational Setting:
• Identify the selected setting
• Provide an overview of the pros and cons of the selected instructional setting
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Exceptional.
The presentation
meets and adequately addresses all criteria (see criteria column). (5 points)
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Effective
The presentation
meets and adequately addresses all criteria (see criteria column). (3 points)
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Developing
The presentation
meets and adequately addresses all criteria (see criteria column). (1 point)
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Unacceptable.
Does not sufficiently address criteria or addresses less than two of the criteria
OR no assignment submitted.
(0 points)
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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
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Exceptional.
The presentation
meets and adequately addresses all of the criteria (see criteria column).
(20 points)
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Effective.
The presentation
meets
and/or adequately addresses some of the criteria (see
criteria column).
(15 – 20 points)
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Developing.
The presentation
meets and adequately addresses only one of the criteria (see
criteria column).
(5 – 10 points)
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Unacceptable.
Does not sufficiently address criteria
OR no assignment submitted.
(0 Points)
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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
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Exceptional.
The presentation
meets and adequately addresses of the
criteria (see criteria column).
(25 points)
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Effective.
The presentation
meets and adequately addresses three of the criteria (see criteria column). (15 points)
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Developing.
The presentation
meets and adequately addresses two of the criteria (see criteria column).
( 10 points)
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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.
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Exceptional.
The presentation
thoroughly
summarizes the
findings associated with the key concepts as outlined by the
assignment criteria. (20 – points)
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Effective.
The presentation
effectively
summarizes the
findings associated with the key concepts as outlined by the
assignment criteria. (15 – points)
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Developing.
The presentation
attempts to
summarize the
findings associated with the key concepts as outlined by the
assignment criteria. (10 points)
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Unacceptable.
The presentation
does not provide a summary or
conclusion OR no
assignment
submitted.
(0 points)
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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.
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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)
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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).
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Exceptional.
The presentation
meets and adequately addresses all six of the criteria (see
criteria column).
(20 – points)
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Effective.
The presentation
meets and adequately addresses three to five of the criteria (see criteria column).
(15 – points)
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Developing.
The presentation
meets and adequately addresses less than two of the criteria (see criteria column). (10 – points)
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Unacceptable.
The presentation
does not sufficiently address criteria
OR no assignment submitted.
(0 – points)
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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
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ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL
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Criteria
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Exceptional
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Effective
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Acceptable
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Developing
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Unacceptable
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Initial post:
Timeliness
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Initial post
completed by
the first day of
the week.
(20 points)
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Initial post
completed by
the second day
of the week.
(16 points)
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No initial post
submitted.
(0 points)
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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.
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Addresses all the required
material (see
criteria column). (30 points)
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Submitted an
incomplete
post. Missing 1 of the required elements.
(25 points)
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Submitted an
incomplete post. Missing 2 of the required
elements.
(20 points)
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Submitted an
incomplete
post. Missing 3 of the required elements.
(15 points)
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No initial post
submitted, or
post was
severely off
target in
addressing the discussion
question/ topic. (0 points)
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Peer Responses:
Discussion Board Engagement Posted on 1 additional day after initial discussion post.
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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)
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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
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Addresses all the required
material (see
criteria column). (20 points)
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Posted at least
two replies to
peers, but only one peer
response met
the criteria for a substantial peer post.
(15 points)
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Posted only one peer response
that met the
criteria for a
substantial peer post.
(10 points)
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Posted one
peer response that did not
meet the
criteria for a
substantial
peer post.
(5 points)
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No peer
responses or
responses were limited to
yes/no or I
agree/I
disagree.
(0 points)
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• explaining assumptions, and/or drawing upon reasonable and
thoughtful conclusions.
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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.
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Addresses all the required
material (see
criteria column). (10 points)
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Posts contain 2- 3
grammar/
spelling
errors.
(7 points)
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Posts contain 4- 5
grammar/
spelling
errors.
(5 points)
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Posts contain
greater
than 5
grammar/
spelling errors. (3 points)
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No discussion
posts
submitted.
(0 points)
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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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