Strategies for Creating Teachable Moments Marisue Cody Ph

Strategies for Creating Teachable Moments Marisue Cody, Ph. D Deputy Director, PRIDE

Objectives • Review adult learning principles • Identify teachable moments in research • Discuss strategies for creating a learning organization culture

Andragogy: Core adult learning principles • Learner’s need to know • Why • What • How • Self-concept of the learner • Autonomous • Self-directing

• Prior experience of the learner • Resource • Mental models • Readiness to learning • Life related • Developmental task

• Orientation to learning • Problem centered • Contextual • Motivation to learn • Intrinsic value • Personal payoff

Take advantage of experiences at hand, creating a spontaneous opportunity that demonstrates a skill or principle.

What is a teachable moment? • moment of educational opportunity: a time at which a person, especially those new to an idea, is likely to be particularly disposed to learn something or particularly responsive to being taught or made aware of something

What is experience? A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table, Ch. 10 We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Ch. 17

Phelps' marijuana photo a 'teachable moment'

The teachable moment it is often incredibly uncomfortable and confronting.

VA Research teachable moments?

Audits… • Chance for feedback on what you have done both right and wrong

Observation… • Subject enrollment and consent

When something goes wrong…