Whether you are a novice clinical educator or an expert, this website has been created as a resource to help you be the most effective educator you can be. It includes information on a wide variety of topics that will hopefully be useful in helping you meet the challenges associated with supporting student learning in the clinical practice area.
This website contains a variety of resources that are intended to expand the teaching options available to you as a clinical educator. Some of these resources are designed to help you explore who you are as a learner and as a person while providing you with tools to help you understand your students and strategies to help them learn in ways that work for them.
These resources are intended to serve as a medium for expanding perspective and enhancing understanding. They are not intended to be absolute or to be boxes into which individuals are placed for the purposes of categorizing. Some of the resources will work for you and some will not. They all simply provide another way of looking at what we think and do. The more we know and understand about each other, the greater the possibilities for us to help each other reach our ultimate potential.
Principles of Effective Teaching Practice
- Teachers are designers of learning
- Work students are asked to undertake is worth their time and attention
- Assessment practices improve students learning and guide teaching
- Teachers foster a variety of interdependent relationships
- Teachers improve their practice in the company of their peers
Canadian Education Association 2005