Things I Have Learned About Myself

The most important thing I've learned about myself as a teacher in the past term/year is that I am indeed a teacher as well as a nurse. I have practiced thirty years plus as a nurse and three years as a teacher. One of my areas of focus this year has been to improve my educational skills and my ability to teach students elements of the healthcare professions. Although I feel I still have a distance to travel in this venture, I have been successful in a number of areas of concern. Thanks to lesson planning, instructional strategies, methodology and the many organizational skills learned in NTI, I feel so much better prepared than I have in the past. The difference has been in the methods used to teach the same curriculum as before, however, with a new found confidence that has assisted in my development as a teacher. Effective planning and implementation have been the norm rather than the exception and this has helped me relay the material at my disposal to receptive students. I have suffered the perils that all other teachers experience but my new found skills have certainly allowed me to recover and remain on task.