Table 3.
Options for Time-Effective Strategies for Teaching
| Diagnosis | Knowledge gap | Inadequate skills | Attitude barriers | Adverse circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potential Time-Effective Teaching Strategy | 1. One Minute Preceptor (i.e., diagnose the learner, teach general rules, provide feedback) | 1. Provide a demonstration, preferably with preview (before the demonstration), commentary (during the demonstration) and debriefing (following the demonstration) | 1. Identify good work and praise it | 1. Address situational difficulties while aligning with learner’s desire for competence. Set expectations in advance that this will be difficult |
| 2. Activated demonstration (i.e., Ask the learner to observe the teacher perform a specific task. Following the observation, activate the learner by asking him to describe what was observed) | 2. Provide guided practice with feedback | 2. Distinguish cognitive short cut from bias | 2. Introduce ABCs of root cause analysis [antecedents (what led up to the event?), behavior (what happened?) and consequences (what happened as a result?)] | |
| 3. Assign a reading | 3. Select cases that provide opportunity for independent practice | 3. Provide corrective feedback | ||
| 4. Identify key skills performed well and describe specifically what made them effective | 4. Encourage reflection (e.g., with open ended probe or direct question) |