The Evaluation Process!

1#    In this weeks readings we learned about coaching. Coaching comes to mind for this subject in the argument that I would need to recognize the uniqueness and relationship I have with that student. I would have to coach encouragement. As it says, "Encouragement- When simple or brief corrections are needed. Intended outcome- to improve performance." Although this is a big deal I would not get mad at the student for missing one step. I would have to encourage her to use her critical thinking skills and ask the student "Why did your patient have a knee replacement?" Before signing her radiographs. Hopefully this would take her mind back to the joint replacement and remember to ask if he needed a pre-med. This way I am giving the already bright student a chance to quickly correct her mistake before moving on. If she does not realize her mistake I would have to give her a targeted learning contract of re-reading the dental hygiene clinical book with the chapters over joint replacements and the procedure of treatment. I would make the student write a paper of why it is important that a joint replacement patient be pre medicated. I would have to grade the student based on her report.




2#  I feel like my bad day has nothing to do with the students. So I would not get mad that the student has missed seven pieces of calculus. Depending on what year the student is I would have to grade accordingly. A first year student I would make them hold on to my hand lightly and to feel what I feel. This way they can get the feel of calculus and the correct way to explore the area. I would show them how to adapt the explorer into the overlapping areas of the teeth. I would then have them show me and give them a second chance. I would write down the areas of the teeth that I found calculus and tell them to get me as soon as they believe they are finished. If it were a senior who has already had a similar situation and should have learned the instrumentation of exploring I would fail them. The first question I should ask my self would be "What learning objective or expectation hasn't been met?" (122, HCT). This senior student would not only fail the patient but be given a remediation of finding another patient compatible to the classification of the failed patient. This will give the student another chance to scale, but hopefully the student will realize on their next patient to take their time while exploring.

A classmate of mine could not make it to table clinics so she was made to find remediation by going to Cherry Valley for annual session and giving her speech there. I went along with her because annual session is fun and our topic was pretty hard!