NURS 639 Assignment # 1: My Philosophy of Teaching and Nurse Educator Competency Development (this is the assignment title)
Review the grading rubric and the assignment guidelines before and during the assignment development.
Guidelines:
1. A philosophy of teaching refelects the beliefs, values, and goals for nurse educator role development. Whether your goal is to be an academic nurse educator(NE) or a nursing professional development(NPD) nurse educator, your values and beliefs will support your nurse educator competency development.
2. Develop a personal philosophy of nursing education statement (500 – 750 words/2-3 pages). Ensure that it includes your beliefs about nursing, education, adult learners(students), and is supported by your underlying understanding of educational theory as its foundation. Describe nurse educator(NE) roles, NE role effectiveness and competency development; and the learner roles (nurses in the clinical setting or nursing students in an academic program).
3. Contrast your philosophy with the philosophy and mission/vision of your clinical practicum site.
4. Reflect on the evolving nature of one’s philosophy of teaching and how will it contribute to your nurse educator competency
development.
Assignment requirements and format:
Title page: APA format, student version, seventh edition. There is a title page, References pages, body of the paper with mjaor headings, and NO abstract. The assignment maximum is 8 pages(excluding the title page and References)
The assignment title is: My Philosophy of Teaching and Nurse Educator Competency Development
Major Heading (Introduction): Nurse Educator and Learner Roles in Professional Nursing
● What motivated you to be a nurse educator?
● What are your beliefs about teaching and learning?
● Describe the teacher and the learner roles in nursing clinical practice OR in academic nursing programs.
●Describe your current level of expertise as a nurse educator role using Benner’s Novice to Expert framework.
Major Heading: Theoretical Frameworks Supporting MyTeaching Practice
● What learning theories provide an educational framework for your teaching practice?
● How do teaching methods incorporate the educational theories to achieve learning in the classroom or clinical setting? Give two specific
examples of educational theories and their teaching methods.
● Describe two innovative teaching methods used for clinical instruction for nurses or nursing students.
● How do you assess learner needs in the nursing education?
● What types of outcomes do you want for the learners(nurses in the clinical setting or
nursing students)?
Major Heading: My Teaching Philosophy and the Practicum’s Site Mission and Vision
Reflect on your personal philosophy and the practicum site’s mission and vision.
Describe how your personal philosophy supports the practicum site’s mission and vision.
Describe how your personal philosophy may be divergent with the practicum site’s mission and vision.
Major Heading: Reflection: Summary and Synthesis
● How will you determine your teaching effectiveness with the learners(nurses or nursing
students) in the practicum setting?
● How will you plan for lifelong learning and nurse educator competency development?
● Develop three SMART(Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound) goals for your nursing education practicum.
● Describe how you will share your professional goals and level of nurse educator expertise(novice to expert) with your Nurs 639 preceptor
within the first three weeks of the practicum.
Assignment References and Resources:
Historical reference(attached teaching philosphy 2018 pdf file to this assignment):
Yeom, Y., Miller, M. A., & Delp, R. (2018). Constructing a teaching philosophy: Aligning beliefs, theories, and practice. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 13(3), 131-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teln.20Novir 18.01.004
Benner: Novice to Expert resource:
Eustace, R. (2023, March 22). From novice to expert. Nursology. https://nursology.net/nurse-theories/from-novice-to-expert/
** microsoft word document attached with assignment instructions (easier to read)
Wells-Beede, E., Sharpnack, P., Gruben, D., Klenke-Borgmann, L., Goliat, L., & Yeager, C. (2023). A scoping review of nurse educator competencies: Mind the gap Nurse Educator, 48(5), 234-239.
SMART Goals developement(Indeed) link:
attached is the rubric and 2 reference.
please no use of AI bots, or plagiarism
