Last Thursday, we did a three-way teaching. We taught each other, by three's, a new skill, gave each other feedback about the teaching of the skill, and the way of giving feedback itself.
In teaching my chosen skill, I was able to apply most of the things I learned from the previous activities last Monday like giving demonstrations and verbal instructions, and gradually lifting the cues off. However, I still have the tendency to say vague terms such as "sa may ano," "i-ano mo" and other variations of "ano." Having said that, I still need to improve my communication to be an effective teacher especially for the patients/clients who would have trouble in understanding. Also, in teaching, especially a psychomotor skill, it is important that you really know what you are teaching and that you, yourself, know how to do it. How can you teach others when you cannot teach yourself? Thus, it is important so you can provide demonstrations to the patients/clients and for them to trust you.
In giving feedback, I learned that we should not also be as vague as "okay naman" or "maganda naman." The feedback should emphasize on the good points that the learner should continue doing and on the points that could be improved on while being as constructive as possible. Also, there are considerations in giving feedback for the patient/client according to their frustration tolerance, age, etc. Giving feedback should not burn the learning down but ignite the desire of the learner to further it.
The whole activity was fun. Aside from learning a new skill, I was given a chance to teach a skill and I learned how to give a proper feedback. Personally, I am grateful that they are letting us experience stuff like this as experience is really the best teacher. Step by step, we are on our way to becoming effective teachers as part of becoming well-rounded physical therapists.
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