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Engaging Veterinary Students: Innovative Teaching Strategies for Critical Thinking

In this interactive session, Ginny Price, MS, CVT, VTS (Behavior) from St. Petersburg College, shares effective techniques to maintain student engagement in veterinary education. Emphasizing critical thinking through close reading, group discussions, and reflection assignments, this workshop introduces practical approaches like the SEEI Model and Socratic questioning. Attendees will learn to foster an environment where students actively reflect on their learning process, analyze techniques, and improve their practical skills. Prepare to transform your teaching methods with engaging strategies and assessments.

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Engaging Veterinary Students: Innovative Teaching Strategies for Critical Thinking

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  1. Not quite a lecture: Keeping students engaged Ginny Price, MS, CVT, VTS (Behavior) St Petersburg College School of Veterinary Technology

  2. Index Cards: all students are responsible

  3. Close reading and three level notes; engage with written material http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/college-and-university-students/799

  4. Reflections on reading due before class; class preparedness

  5. What main ideas were in the reading and videos? • How can you use these ideas in your work? • What questions came to mind during your reading? Reflection assignment

  6. Critical Thinking Discussion: one student’s comments build on another’s

  7. Pause to Think: Stop & Write; SEEI

  8. Model Deep Thinking: Socratic questioning; elements of thought; intellectual standards; intellectual traits

  9. Summary assignments: analyze and synthesize; learning assessment

  10. Obtain a sample from a patient using a new technique. If you have used all the recommended techniques of obtaining samples use the one with which you are least familiar. • Record your observations of your and your patient's behavior during this process. • Reflect on how the process you used might affect the obtained sample. Summary Assignment Example

  11. Cite information from the text to supportyour ideas on how samples are affected by the techniques used to obtain them. • Record the effectiveness of the technique you used to obtain the sample. • Record how the technique could be improved or what you would do differently next time. If it could not be improved or changed, record why the technique does not need to be improved or changed. Summary Assignment Example

  12. Exams: learning assessment; contain essay & multiple choice items http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/MultipleChoiceItems/

  13. Resources!

  14. www.criticalthinking.org • www.everyonethings.org • http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/college-and-university-students/799 • http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/MultipleChoiceItems/ Websites on Critical Thinking

  15. Teaching strategies

  16. How the brain works…

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