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The skills to become an effective teacher are kind of the basics.
(Audio Transition, KC: So then my question to you is, when is it a misdemeanor and when
is it a felony and what's the difference?)
When we teach to our students that your clients won't care how much you know until they know
how much you care, and I think that is exactly true with students as well. I think they are
a lot more forgiving of that really difficult test or a critique or a feedback if they understand
that your ultimate goal is to provide them with an education that they really need. That
you care about what they take away from your class.
(Audio Transition, KC: So where do you begin your suture line? Oh, busted.
Ok.....)
As far as using technology in the classroom, I think some of that, it's a natural. Its
a good fit for somebody who's a surgeon or who teaches communications like I do, to be
able to show an example. It also is very much a part of this generation. They've learned
that way from the very beginning and so if we don't move with technology, we're actually
hindering their learning process. I think the key is engagement. And I don't think it
really matters whether you're engaging students using a clicker system, you're engaging them
using a video demonstration, or an animated process, I think the key is to get them engaged
in that learning process.
I think what I would like for students to walk away with is not only the material from
the class, not just the data or the information that they have to retain and recall, that
they have to put in their storage banks, but I also would like them to take away from any
of the courses that I'm involved in, whether it is surgery, or communications or anything
like that, kind of that professionalism; the idea of a professional is a person who can
interact with multiple people. Who can be respectful of the people that they work with
and that we have a professional obligation to the public as veterinarians.