My partner and I chose to use "Active Learning in Teaching Adults" as a topic for this assignment.
Both of us work in Health Care, she is an RN who teaches LPN's and I am an LPN who will be
teaching Health Care Assistants (HCA's). Active Learning is a very necessary approach to teaching
in this industry in order to adequately prepare students for real life application of knowledge in
their future jobs.
I enjoyed our conference as it reinforced the ideas that both of us got from our research and it
provided an opportunity for us to teach each other things we hadn't found. Something new that I
learned from my partner was that the role of teaching has changed from teacher centred to student
centered. Before all the attention and focus was on the teacher and the teacher had full control
over what and how information was taught. Now, students have more control over how they are
to learn, and the focus and attention is a lot more on them as they engage actively through
conferencing, class discussion, partaking in role playing etc.; all examples of Active Learning.
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