20 March 2015

Today, we had a ‘three-way teaching’, where person A teaches B, C critiques A’s way of teaching, and B critiques C’s feedback. We chose one skill to teach and also gave feedback on each session.

My teaching went well, I suppose, based on my group’s feedback. I kept in mind our previous session with Ma’am Mia. Cues on the learner should be slowly withdrawn as you progress until they’re able to do it independently. I also realized how motivation improves performance. For my session, I found that showing the output and its function, motivated my learner to participate. If the learner finds the activity relevant/interesting to them, it would be easier to teach. Thus, providing a good and complete rationale is important.

One point Ma’am Mia raised after my session was that we shouldn’t assume that how we learned a skill will be similar to how the learner will learn it. How we learned is probably also how we will teach it however, we all have different learning styles and that our learner may not share. As a learner, I’m big on imagining and finding patterns on the task to learn it, however, Ma’am Mia noted that what I’m seeing in my mind may not be possible to imagine for some. Concrete instructions would work better in the next sessions. We must also try to see what kind of learner our client to see which way will be best to facilitate learning.

When giving feedback, it’s important to always look for the good and the bad in the session. Ma’am Dana noted that we should always try to end on a good note as not to bring down the person’s morale.

I’ll try to keep these in mind in the future as teaching and giving feedback plays an essential role in our profession as a PT.