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Overview

This part of training is to challenge you in what you’ve learned! As educators, we know that effective teaching is demonstrated when students can demonstrate mastery AND competency. We recognize that some of these skills that we’ve just taught you are things we need you to develop over time. We also want to use this opportunity to guide you in giving you the best opportunity to make the biggest impact in so many students all around the globe. So follow these directions to reinforce the learning you just completed and to make sure you have a solid foundation to share your knowledge.

Instructions

You will review each of the components of the pedagogy and then submit your response in the form after each section. Your curriculum director will review your responses and then work with you to develop and hone your skills so you can continue to deliver the world’s best content in the most meaningful way!

C – Content

Pick any topic about anything and record a loom video (www.useloom.com) explaining “filet mignon” or the content.
Example: My topic is the life cycle of the butterfly. My content/filet mignon is “a butterfly starts as a caterpillar, sheds its outer layer to form a chrysalis where it transforms and emerges as a butterfly.”
1. Watch Here: Example – C – Content

After watching this video, click on THIS FORM to submit an example of you showing how you identified the most important content!

O – Origins

Take your topic and record a loom topic adding the origins and they “why”.
Example: The caterpillars job is to eat and grow so that it can have the nutrients that it needs to become a butterfly. This transformation requires a lot of nutrients so this is very important. Caterpillars do not have the ability to reproduce other caterpillars so they must morph and transform through this lifecycle so that reproduction occurs. Without this transformation there would be no caterpillars or butterflies.
1. Watch Here: Example – O – Origins

After watching this video, click on THIS FORM to submit an example of you teaching the “why behind the what”

R – Real Life

Reality & Linchpins
Take this same topic and record a loom video incorporating the “real life” experience.
Example: Guys remember that book The Hungry Caterpillar? It is literally just like that. Maybe not all the things that hungry caterpillars ate, but the caterpillar eats and eats and eats some more. The caterpillar multiples in size and then goes into a deep sleep, in it’s cocoon and goes through the transformation to a butterfly.
1. Watch Here: Example – R – Real Life

After watching this video, click on THIS FORM to submit an example of you explaining real life and the linchpin to students.

E – Engagement

Our users thrive on engagement from the educator and their ability to connect with them in ways that mentors or other professionals haven’t before.
You’ll use this PDF to fill in the title and three main teaching points.
1. Use as many teaching strategies to teach your lesson in two minutes or less.
2. Record this video with Loom
3. Focus on engagement and encouragement
  1. Example of how the PDF should be filled out:

Click on THIS FORM and submit an example that uses several of our key teaching strategies to show us how you both connect with and engage the user. You will use THIS PDF to create your video submission.

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Transcript

So to pull all of this information together and make sure that you’ve really understood and internalized it, you’ll need to complete a quick assignment. We have asked quiz questions along the way, but it’s hard to evaluate that you’ve truly understood this without seeing you actually implement it! That’s the same for our nursing and allied health students, right? So, I anticipate this shouldn’t take more than 2 hours total to complete. Once you complete this, you’ll be officially be considered a trained teacher for NRSNG and the Core Content Mastery Method!

Your assignment is to create a powerpoint video lesson, very similar to what I’ve created in this course, on the topic of Liver Failure. It should have hand-drawing or writing and be narrated by you! You’ll use what you’ve learned in this course – find the most important information, boil it down. Listen, you can’t talk about ALL of Liver Failure in one short lesson – so choose a linchpin, and use your practical applications to develop the lesson – find the absolutes, dig for the why, draw it, keep it short, link it to real life, use the big picture, go backwards, go forwards method to take the learner on the journey. We’ve linked to two video lesson examples for you to get an idea of videos we’ve done in the past. You see that I’ve included my webcam in these videos, but they’re not necessary, so don’t worry about that in this assignment. Now, while we want to see that you can navigate some tech – we aren’t expecting you to be a tech professional, so video editing isn’t necessary. What we do ask is that if you realize you made a mistake or would’ve said something differently – pause for 10-20 seconds, then go back to what you want to re-state. That tells us that you recognized it could’ve or should’ve been said/done differently. Now, you have a few different options for how to create and submit this, which we’ve outlined for you in the lesson. But I want to run through a few of them for you so that you have an idea of how to use each one. Personally, I recommend using a second monitor and a USB drawing tablet, but we don’t expect you to purchase new tech just for this assignment, so do the best with what you have!

There are a few different methods you can use. Inside the lesson we’ve provided links to short videos walking you through each one and how to do them. You can do a narrated powerpoint, in which case the file you submit would be the .ppt or .pptx file. You could use Loom Desktop Recorder which provides you with a hyperlink to the video. Copy and paste that into a Word Document and submit the Word Document. The third one we use is Screencastify Desktop Recorder. This will save the file to your Google Drive or your computer, whichever you choose. Download the file and upload the actual video file in the portal. An alternative is to upload that video to YouTube and submit the link to the video in the same way you would have with Loom. If you happen to have another recording method you prefer, that is fine as well. Either submit the video file itself or the link to it in a word document.

So – the process for you is to start by determining what content you’re going to include. Remember the ideal video length is less than 7 minutes, preferably closer to 3-5. So choose your content wisely – this will take the most time. Then develop your presentation. We also highly recommend you pre-plan your transcript and practice a few times – this helps keep you focused and keep you from rambling or going off on rabbit trails. Then, record the video, upload the video to YouTube if you choose that route, then you’re going to go to the next lesson and submit the video in the assignment portal. That’s it! These last few steps shouldn’t take you more than 20-30 minutes depending on upload time. Once you determine your content, developing the powerpoint itself should be quick, especially if you’re following our methods. So it’s the preparation part that takes the most time. Remember, take your time to prepare so that you can speak naturally from the heart. You can do this!

We’re so grateful for you and your willingness to be a part of the movement we’re creating! We can wait to see what you come up with!! Go out and be your best self today. And, as always, happy nursing!