Overview
Throughout this course, you will apply what you're learning about teaching techniques and learning theory by designing your own mini-course—more specifically, one complete lesson on a topic of your choice. This single lesson will represent what a full course might look like, demonstrating your ability to plan, align, and deliver instruction effectively.
Each week, you will build a different part of your lesson, culminating in a final presentation package. By the end of the course, you’ll have a fully developed lesson that includes objectives, content, instructional strategies, assessment tools, and supporting visuals.
Purpose
This project will help you:
Apply educational theory and instructional strategies in a practical format
Design a structured and engaging lesson for students, patients, or professionals
Practice aligning objectives with institutional outcomes
Create meaningful materials that reflect real-world teaching applications
Selecting Your Topic
Choose one of the following general areas:
Clinical Education: A topic focused on teaching a healthcare-related skill, concept, or protocol
Degree Advancement Awareness: Present the topic of “Why Degree Advancement” to 1st-semester Associate Degree RT students
Your topic can explore a range of perspectives: clinical, financial, social, personal, or educational. The goal is to narrow your focus to something that is clear, teachable, and relevant.
Make your own editable version by selecting File > Make a Copy in Google Drive.
Details About Your Topic
- I allow a lot of autonomy in regard to topic selection within 2 major categories. You will select either Clinical Education, with the topic selection focused in the health care arena, OR present the topic of "Why Degree Advancement" to a group of 1st semester Associate degree Respiratory therapy students. However, feel free to push the boundaries to explore the financial, social, personal, or educational perspectives of your topic; In order to help you plan and narrow your topic into something meaningful.
- You may find it helpful to review this Narrowing Your Topic Concept MapLinks to an external site. that a new teacher might use to direct his/her class to narrow a topic prior to starting research. I expect you to use information from this document for your first paragraph in the template. Make sure you are citing it & including it in your references. You should also consider citing London (the course textbook) or one of the other documents provided this week as your second source for that paragraph. you are also welcome to search the internet (Google Scholar) or the BSU online library for another related source.
- Written assignments in this course should be created in Google Docs and are required to be turned in via a link to the GDoc. Make sure permissions are set to allow me to edit.
All written assignments need to be turned in via a Google Docs link using the file naming convention as follows "lastname week x"
Assignment Example
oLastName Week #1 Example (narrowing your topic)Links to an external site.
No Time to Teach, by Fran London on AmazonLinks to an external site.
ISBN-10: 193363894X
ISBN-13: 978-1933638942