Student Involvement
Student involvement with school associations are important. This experience will help in feeling a part of a group and that your role as the student will cause the student to feel important.
Odette,
What about students that do not get involved with school associations? How do you involve them?
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
The students do not necessarily need to be a apart of an association such as sorority or glee club but can participate in a school cookout on campus, group scavenger hunt on campus, study groups at school, group community project such as a food drive at school, be apart of putting a health fair together on or off campus, attend a job fair on campus with a group of students from class. Hopefully, with a lot of encouragement the student may get involved enough to fit in.
Stephanie,
Sometimes having the options is enough for students.
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
I think that if the student makes a study group, snack group, lamplighter... Within my classroom I have the students roleplay patient, then the MA must present the patient info to the class as in ground rounds. This allows all the student to observe, inquire and share their concept about the patient. This seams to get them all involved and gives them a sence of peer aceptence.
Patrick,
A good approach. Was this something you put in place? What encouraged you to do so?
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
I used to use this concept when I ran a clinic in the USAF. I think that it gives the student a realface to look at and not just a "simulated patient". It also adds the "why do we do that" logic into the mix.
Ie: Why do we care if the patient is on the atkins diet, protien shakes and HCTZ, and is complaining of lower back pain.
All the student normaly knows is that the patient is taking meds but do not need to know why it is important.
Patrick,
Thank you for your reply and sharing.
Ron Hansen, Ed. D.
