Teaching Strategies

This assignment is graded on a 0-100 percent scale and is worth 20% of your final grade for the course.
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Paper Requirements
This is a 5-page paper (not including title, abstract or reference pages) that will explore TWO different teaching strategies. Choose the strategies from the following web site
MERLOT PEDAGOGY PORTAL (http://pedagogy.merlot.org/TeachingStrategies.html)
After selecting the two strategies you want to discuss, go to the library and find two scholarly, peer reviewed articles (each less than five years old), one for each strategy.
*Remember that there is a host of literature about teaching strategies that comes from outside nursing, so diversify your search using educational databases, not only nursing databases.
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• Start your paper with an introduction.
Address the following areas for EACH teaching Strategy

1. The chosen strategy is comprehensively described
2. The research article is outlined and major findings are highlighted.
3. Advantages of the strategy are discussed
4. Disadvantages of the strategy are discussed
5. There is discussion around:
   a. Whether the student has experienced the strategy
   b. How the strategy was used and if it was effective
   c. If the student has no experience with a strategy, the student offers an example and analysis about how effective the strategy might be
   • Finish you paper with a conclusion that has greater depth than simple summary
   NOTE: When you outline each of the research studies, do not list authors and title, use only authors. Your reference page gives the details of the study title and source.
   Here is what to avoid:
   In the article “Increasing Student Engagement in Lecture Style Classrooms Using Clickers” Smith, Jones, and Black (2012) did a study to see if using clickers helped with student engagement.
   Here is a better way:
   Smith, Jones, and Black (2012) conducted a study that sought to identify whether students who used clickers during lecture were more engaged than students who did not use clickers during lecture