Innovative practices in student engagement featured in new Teaching Academy video series
October 16, 2014
Eleven faculty members and graduate teaching assistants recently honored by the Purdue Teaching Academy share their innovative ideas on engaging students and facilitating learning in a new series of videos posted on the Teaching Academy website.
In each short video interview (less than five minutes), an honoree discusses the teaching philosophies, strategies and tools used to engage students in ways that facilitate learning.
Today's featured video interview is with Cynthia Bozich Keith, clinical associate professor of nursing. Bozich Keith, a 2014 Murphy Award winner, discusses student autonomy and collaboration in the context of teaching psychiatric clinical nursing three days a week in a local hospital. A team approach and techniques such as self-assigning patient consults, role-playing, video recording of live simulations and journaling are used to help students learn and to calm anxieties about working in a clinical setting and adapting to stressful situations.
"It's a part of every aspect of nursing," Bozich Keith says of the class's relevancy. "Every day of their life, they will use psychiatric skills or concepts that they've used in class."
The video interviews with Bozich Keith and the 10 other awardees are available on the Teaching Academy website.
