Child Education Paper Guidelines
Due: The first week of maternity clinical practicum (or per your clinical instructor).
Each student is expected to attend a childbirth preparation class and to complete a written paper about the experience. Childbirth preparation classes will help the student become more aware of the educational preparation of client couples, enable the student to assist during the clients labor and delivery process, and introduce methods of client teaching. The childbirth courses range from 6 to 8 weeks at 2-3 hours per week to all-in-one day refresher classes. You may choose any option. Please bring documentation from the childbirth class to your clinical practicum as evidence for your attendance.
The childbirth education paper from this experience must show integration of the following:
Theory on preparation for parenting. The type of childbirth education course.
Teaching-learning principles (These are several principles availablefeel free to choose one from textbooks or online. Be sure to cite the theory that you choose to use).
The following information along with the above principles should include in your 2-page word processed evaluation (APA format) of this experience.
Name of instructor, dates and location of the child birthing class.
Number of participants (couples and single clients).
Profile of the attendees (age, background, previous pregnancies, etc.)
What you learned from this experience. Value of this experience to you.
How will this experience help your professional practice?
If you were teaching this class, how would you teach this class? What would you do differently? What communication techniques did the instructor use? Non-verbal Communication? Verbal communication?
Use the following teaching-learning guide during the childbirth class you attend to assist you in gathering data to write this assignment.
How did the instructor sequence the learning?
Confirm the clients knowledge base and motivation?
Get the learners attention? Clarify the course objectives?
Present content and get feedback from participants?
Provide examples during presentation? Reinforce concepts?
Summarize and evaluate during class time?
What guidelines for use of discussion as a teaching strategy were used?
Guide and facilitate learner to come to a decision?
Start discussion with a question? Provide for thinking time?
What experiential strategies did the instructor use? Role-play? Behavior rehearsal? exercise?
Identify the instructors teaching strategies: prepared teaching, spontaneous teaching, indirect teaching?
What motivated the couples to come and learn? What kind of questions did the couples ask?
How were the parents values and preferences taken into consideration?
