Category: Education
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Applying Learning Styles to Electronic Health Records (EHR) Training
In the educational world, learning styles can be a taboo subject. The learning style field is filled with nearly a dozen distinct models all claiming to encapsulate and categorize learners. As an education professional, I frequently must modify teaching opportunities to my students and their various learning styles. This can become overwhelming – you must…
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Engaging with an Unreceptive (or Hostile) Audience
CAVEAT: This is geared less toward sales and more toward partnerships. Often, we are required to develop partnerships with organizations and people who are less than receptive to our message. Even if we are passionate about what we are doing, we sometimes are unable to convince people to partner with us. As part of my community…
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Learning Styles
Several years ago, I worked on a project with youth from a state’s foster care agency. This project required teaching youth about their learning styles. My (then) boss talked about the five learning styles, specifically visual, aural, verbal, mathematical, and tactile. We all took a short quiz and rated our learning styles. I found out…
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Check your (implicit) biases
Yesterday, I attended a training put on by Dr. Rita Cameron Wedding, California State University, on the topic of implicit bias. To me, these trainings are like revival meetings: These trainings encourage me to be more empowered. As a social psychologist, I am aware of implicit biases, but I often do not take time to…
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