Assignment #3: My Teaching Contract Due: Mar 2, 2023

Due: Thursday, 2 March 2023, 9:00 PM
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Task

After looking into the attributes of an effective clinical teacher, your task is to reflect on your own teaching practices and based on literature, and on your own definition of what an effective clinical teacher is, identify what aspects in your teaching practice you would like to reinforce and those that you would like to change.  The contract will also present what you intend to do to become an effective clinical teacher.

Procedure

1. Reflect on your own definition of what an effective clinical teacher is.  Integrate this with the descriptions laid out in the articles you read and the different descriptions provided by your classmates in the discussion forum. 

2.  Based on this, reflect on your own teaching practices:

What practices align with the description of an effective clinical teacher? How can you reinforce these?

What practices do you think should be changed or improved?  How do you intend to do it?

2. Express your answers in the form of a contract.  Use the following template:

 

Format for Teaching Contract:

 

Background

-          Describe the purpose of the contract

Article 1 My Teaching Philosophy

-          Describe briefly your teaching philosophy, learning theory & instructional theory

Article 2 Attributes of an Effective Clinical Teacher

-          Describe the attributes of an effective clinical teacher

Article 3 Areas for Improvement

-          Identify areas that you want to reinforce in your current teaching practices in the clinics

-          Identify areas that you want to improve in your current teaching practices in the clinics to become an effective clinical teacher

Article 4 Resolutions

-          Describe specific course of actions that you plan to take to achieve the goal of becoming an effective clinical teacher

Article 5 Terms

-          Describe when you plan to start implementation of these resolutions

 

In witness thereof

 

 

 

____________________________________

Signature over printed name

 

Date:

 

 

4. Submit in MSWord or PDF format with the following file name: HP223_A3_[surname]_[month day submitted]

Example: HP223_A3_grageda_Oct09

 

Assessment Criteria

Your outputs will be assessed using the following scoring guide:            

Criteria

Points

Teaching Philosophy & theories

5

Attributes of an Effective Clinical Teacher

10

Areas for Improvement

10

Resolutions

25

 

Total: 50 points

Submission date

Submissions of final versions of the assignments must be in by Mar 2, 2023 9:00pm. 

Final versions returned with advice for re-submission will be given a specific deadline.  Please make sure to meet that deadline.  Your assessment score will be based on your re-submission.