Conclusion and Final Thoughts

       Now that everyone’s mind is overloaded with material, (smile), I feel I have discussed the objective of the teaching/learning plan which was to describe and correctively perform a cognitive/neurological assessment. The rationale for performing a correct cognitive/neurological assessment is evident by assessment consistency which is the key to identifying changes in a patient’s status and identifying changes early which leads to faster treatment. Faster treatment leads to better outcomes for the patients (Rehabilitation Standard of Care, 2011). This teaching plan focused on staff education and its’ objectives using Bloom’s taxonomy. 

     I think the information was given in an orderly fashion specific enough that anyone reading the introduction and objectives would know exactly what material would be presented. Various teaching media/materials were discussed as well as developed discussion questions that can be used to evaluate the learner’s achievement of the objectives. 

     I would like to share my own insights and reflection of what I gained from this lesson plan since I followed the technique of the learning framework. The learning framework and my own teaching philosophy created a foundation to begin the project. I believe communication and the interaction with one another in this type of setting (staff education) is highly important because sometimes information is not clearly communicated to all. I feel this is a reason various types of media/materials are used, so that information can be presented in other forms.

     Funny thing was, tension was building when I realized how much information was too much information or lack thereof, throughout the teaching/learning plan. . .LOL! I also felt that this topic required appendices (A-E), to provide enough material to review prior to the staff’s education session.

     This blog has come to an end and I hope everyone enjoyed my teaching/lesson plan. Good luck to all of you!

As Always, Panthera!

                                References

Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, & T. A. Dewey. (2012). The Animal  Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

Rehabilitation Standard of Care. (2011). Retrieved from www.thedacare.org (intranet).