Catherine Carruth

Catherine Carruth

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@petfixer27 :  Encouraging students to contribute from their own experiences certainly can motivate them and increase engagement in learning.  I also reinforce the relevance of that day's topic to the overall goal of being a nurse.  Why does a nurse need this piece of information?  How does this skill/theory content/professional behavior impact good nursing?  Sometimes it is easy to get lost in the details and bringing it back to the broad goal is useful. 

I find it useful to have students in upper classes talk to new students. New students seem to embrace a topic passionately when an upperclassman explains the relevance in learning particular material. I love it when old students drop by. I put them to work encouraging my new students with experiental wisdom.
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I wish ED103 provided instruction to determine the validity of test questions.  We are struggling with that now.  I don't know how to interpret the information that I am receiving.  In theory, it is wonderful, but I am struggling with application. 

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Honestly, I'm not sure. At the end of my first year as a nursing educator, I don't have an answer to that question. And that is a problem for me. hmmmm.....

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