Nursing is an exciting career. It's teaching and learning is equally exciting. Majorly, it is exciting because it brings together learners from a diverse background, both working and living, into a classroom. Thus, a nursing teacher should devise strategies to capitalize on his or her student's diversity with the aim of better learning and understanding. To begin with, as a nursing educator, I will work towards developing reciprocity and cooperation between students (Billings & Halstead, 2012). Here, I will embrace the use of teamwork, class discussions, peer tutoring, and encouraging students to share their viewpoints concerning topics being discussed in class. That way, I will successfully transform the nursing class to a social one and eventually improve thinking and understanding.
Additionally, I will embrace and encourage active learning. I this case, instead of having students sit in class and receive content which they will likely duplicate in the exam, I will require my students to talk about what they understand concerning the topics, to raise various views about the topics, to write about what they learn, to relate and share their past experiences, and to apply it to their daily and work lives (Gaberson, Oermann, & Shellenbarger, 2015). In this case, through the active process, the diverse viewpoints in the various nursing topics will be evident and will aid the learning process and successfully increase the worldview of my students and which will make them better nurses.
Finally, just is the case with individuals that they possess different talents, nurses also have areas where they are better in compared to other areas. Thus, as an educator, I will work towards respecting the diverse talents shown by my learners and the different way of learning (Gaberson, Oermann, & Shellenbarger, 2015). In this case, some of the learners might well understand classroom teaching while others will require exposure to experiments and event teaching them in a hospital using real cases. I will take the opportunity of learning the various needs and ways of learning and plan my lessons in such a way they will not only allow expression by all types of students but will also respect different learning techniques. That way, learners will successfully grasp content when their preferred learning method is used and will likely practice their talent enhancing better learning.
References
Billings, D. M., & Halstead, J. A. (2012). Teaching in nursing: A guide for faculty (4th Ed). St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier Saunders.
Gaberson, K., Oermann, M., & Shellenbarger, T. (2015). Clinical teaching in nursing. New York, NY: Springer Publishers.
