Module Components

• Overview
• Assignments

Topics

• Roles
• Teacher Competencies
• Learning Environments & Settings
• Health Literacy

NURS 787 - Theoretical Foundations of Teaching and Learning

Module 7: Roles and Environments

Overview

Teaching and learning can take place at any time and in any setting. The inputs of the learning process include a teacher, a learner, content in the form of information, ideas, skills, problems or challenges, time, environmental cues, learner characteristics, culture, attitudes, motivation, and support. Throughputs include the hard, messy work of learning, which can include practice, mistakes, thought, effort, resources, and multiple emotions. The outputs of this ongoing process are change, growth, development, and perspective.

Learning is a lifelong process. Curiosity, learning for the sake of learning, and the need to solve problems fuel this continuous loop.

In this module, we’ll take a closer look at some of these elements, and focus on some teaching competencies and roles, various learning environments, and the notion of health literacy.

Objectives

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. ~Buddhist Proverb

At the conclusion of this module, the learner will:

• Describe potential roles for nurse educators
• State key competencies for academic nurse educators
• Explain various settings where teaching and learning
• Identify the impact of literacy on health education

Required Readings

• Bastable, 6th Ed., CH 7, Literacy p. 270-309 

Directions

Read the module and suggested readings within the module. Then complete the assignment for the module.