Day 3

Today, we were tasked three things: (1) teach a classmate a skill, (2) provide feedback on a classmate’s way of teaching, and (3) criticize a classmate’s feedback.

For the first task, teaching a classmate was both easier and harder in comparison to teaching a layperson. It was easier because rapport was already built and the communication was more natural. However, that relaxed connection itself has made it difficult, I guess, for my learner to recognize me as his teacher. For example, there was an instance where he was talking to a classmate as I was delivering the instructions and I had to divert his attention back to the task. This shows the importance of balancing good rapport and effective authority.

The next task I was assigned to was feedback criticism. I found the task difficult because I did not know fully the concrete basis of a good feedback. I commented on the manner of delivery and the construct of the feedback itself. In our case, I commended on how she delivered it in accordance with the way the session proceeded. Our professor pointed out that an organized construct was my bias because it may not necessarily reinforce learning on the student’s part. She taught as a method to ensure that the feedback will be facilitative to the process, the same method which I then used for my next task.

I realize how much I still have yet to learn. I do hope that I will be able to carry these things that I have learned today in my future practice for the betterment of my patients.