Getting Ready to Teach
Joe Vuthiganon, DMD

The Millennials
Joe Vuthiganon, DMD
Characteristics of the Millennial Generation https://students.rice.edu/images/students/AADV/OWeek2008AADVResources/Characteristic s of the Millenial Generation.pdf
The Five R’s of Engaging Millennial Students http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/the-five-rs-of-engagingmillennial-students/
A Vision of Students Today – Kansas State Univ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Students’ Perceptions of Effective Classroom and Clinical Teaching in Dental and Dental
Hygiene Education
J Dent Educ 2006 70:624-635 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16741130

Getting Ready to Teach
Jennie Ariail, PhD

Core Learning Concepts
Most of us learned to teach and to learn from pedagogical models, not andragogical ones
Much adult learning occurs in contexts that are active, relevant, and social.
Knowles, M. (1990) The Adult Learner: A
Neglected Species Houston, Gulf Publishing
Company.
Pedagogy
Dependent on
Authority
Experience is secondary
Andragogy
Independent, equal
Experience is resource
Motivated by others/ teachers
Motivated by problems
Subject-centered
(What should I know?)
Performancecentered (what do I do?)
Mass learning Distributed practice/ Spaced learning

If we could only hand down definitive knowledge…
However, that concept is antithetical to our understanding of the process of education in a democratic society and…state of knowledge.

• `Zone of Proximal Development’
• Our job is to support students as they move from novice to expert.
Vygotsky, L.S. (1978) Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Process, edited by M. Cole, V. John-Steiner, S. Scribner & E.

Cannot learn something new unless we connect it to something we know.
More scholarly wording: acquisition of new knowledge requires the activation of prior knowledge.
Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T.
(2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning t DOI: 10.1177/1529100612453266

• Intrinsic motivation
• Personal goals
• Share yours ( equal and independent)

Advice often heard by students: “Just sit and listen.”
5-10% retention rate for lectures
15 minute-chunks
PowerPoint—we do all the work, all the struggle
Davies, Philip. Approaches to evidence-based teaching. 2000, Vol. 22, No. 1 , Pages 14-21 (doi:10.1080/01421590078751

Over 100 years of research:
#1 Practice questions
Distributed practice
1.opportunities to review many times
2.methods for creating review materials
Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 14, 4-58. DOI:
10.1177/1529100612453266

Descartes was wrong
Cannot have one without the other
Affect is central and essential
Positive encouragement

We are the models, the mentors for teaching and learning and interacting with colleagues and patients.
Our students will do as we do.
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya
Angelou
―

Davies, Philip. Approaches to evidence-based teaching. 2000, Vol. 22, No. 1 , Pages 14-21 (doi:10.1080/01421590078751
Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K. A., Marsh, E. J., Nathan, M. J., & Willingham, D. T. (2013). Improving students' learning with effective learning techniques: Promising directions from cognitive and educational psychology. Psychological Science in the Public Interest,
14, 4-58. DOI: 10.1177/1529100612453266
Knowles,M. (1990) The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species .Houston, Gulf Publishing Company.
Mueller, Pam. A. & Oppenheimer, Daniel . Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614524581
Psychological Science published online 23 April 2014
Vygotsky, L.S. (1978) Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Process, edited by M. Cole, V. John-Steiner, S.
Scribner & E. Souberman :Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press)
Titchen, A. (1992) Problem-based distance learning for health professionals, Physiotherapy, 78(4) , pp. 257± 262.
Schwartz, R.W., Donnelly, M.B., Nash, P.P. & Young, B. (1992). Developing students’ cognitive skills in a problem-based surgery clerkship, Academic Medicine, 67(10), pp. 694± 696.

Getting Ready to Teach
Mary Mauldin, EdD