Week 5 posts 6330 - Assignment Example

Hello Julie Your post offers comprehensive and informative details on how you intend to make the syllabus you are creating a success. It is true that evaluation is a very important step in the teaching and learning process. Same thing that Billings & Halstead (2012) insist on; that evaluation is a process to interpret, report, and utilize findings to make decisions that improve student learning, faculty performance, course, curriculum, and program quality. You can additionally read Keating’s (2011) text you will find that she shares the same idea by stating, “Evaluation is the comparison of actual impacts against strategic plans.

”ReferencesBilling , D. M., & Halstead, J. A. (2012). Teaching in nursing: A guide for faculty. St. Louis: Elsevier Saunders.Keating , S. B. (2011). Curriculum development and evaluation in nursing education. New York: Springer Publishing Company.Hello DonnaMae Thanks for such a short and precise post on developing successful evaluation strategies on the course issues and trends in nursing. I agree that it is important to develop a rubric, which is very important in grading as it acts a reference point to check whether all the required documentation has been included.

In the post, you have mentioned “Widespread use of technology makes it extremely easy to lose sight of the myriad individual pieces of a syllabus” (Habanek, 2005). However, you have not specified your take towards incorporating technology in the evaluation process. On my part, I think technology is an essential part in carrying out evaluation especially when you anticipate having a long and detailed syllabus. The central part is to ensure that you enforce a system that can easily be monitored and adjusted when need arises.

Habanek, D. V. (2005). An examination of the integrity of the syllabus. College teaching, 62-64.Hello Martha I would agree with you that having active learning strategies is necessary to prepare students such that they are in a position to apply what they learn from a classroom setting into real life situation. Therefore, it is necessary for the faculty to have a clear and precise curriculum that will help them achieve these conditions. Similar to what Billings and Halstead (2012) explain in their text “rely on goals, objectives, and outcomes to guide program, course, or lesson development” (p. 423). Besides that, I would like you to clarify one area that I did not quite understand.

You mentioned “the students will complete a concept map and case study in preparation for the teaching plan they create and present” kindly elaborate more on this part.ReferenceBillings, D. M., & Halstead, J. A. (2012). Teaching in nursing: A guide for faculty. St. Louis: Elsevier Saunders.Hello Vickie Thanks for such an informative post on developing a curriculum that will incorporate cardiac disorders as one of the main courses. Cardiac disorders such as heart failure have become a common problem in the current medical field.

Therefore, need to have professionals that are well educated in the field and understand its sensitivity the same idea as Boland (2012) explains that nurses need “to apply the knowledge they have gained to patient care situations.” Therefore, the success of your curriculum will be a major boost towards controlling the situation. One other thing I would commend is the way you have planned evaluation strategies, it shows how committed you are to make the curriculum and each course a success.

ReferenceBoland, D. (2012). Developing curriculum: Frameworks, outcomes, and competencies. In D. Billings, & J. Halstead, Teaching in nursing: A guide for faculty. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Saunders.