Clinical Education | Assessment 1

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Clinical Education
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Clinical Education
Introduction
Schön reflection model argues that there are two types of reflection; one during an event
(reflection in action) and another after an activity has taken place (reflection on action).
Reflection in action is about the present experience where an individual thinks about their next
actions and acts straight away (Farrell, 2012). Reflection on action, on the other hand, is where
an individual thinks about something that has happened before and they take their time to think
on their next actions and what they can do differently (Farrell, 2012). This paper talks about the
concept of a teaching plan about the hand, foot, and mouth disease among children. It analyses
and evaluates the experiences of the teaching plan after it has been developed. The paper starts
by reintroducing the initial teaching plan; followed by a reflection on the experiences during the
progress of the teaching plan. The paper additionally reflects on the experience of presenting the
plan and further reflects on the experience of viewing other plans. The paper finally gives a
general reflection on the concept of a teaching plan.
Re-introduction of the Original Teaching Plan
This paper is based on an individual teaching plan about hand, foot and mouth disease among
kindergarten children. This disease is contagious and is very prevalent among children below the
age of 10 years (Lott et al., 2013). One of the aspects of this plan is the learning context of
individual pediatrics care. This learning context is based on Perth due to its urban setting thus
making it easier to access support materials and teach. Another component of the teaching plan is
learning need evidence which focuses on aspects of hand, foot, and mouth disease among
children starting their kindergarten. All the essential elements of the hand, foot and mouth

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disease are elaborated by this teaching plan. The third component is the learner type that was
targeting a native Australian mother of a 4-year-old child commencing kindergarten. She is
willing to do anything to learn how to appropriately take care of her child. Another component is
learning aims and outcomes which focus on training parents and caregivers on the precautionary
measures against hand, foot and mouth disease. The other components of the teaching plan
included anticipated strengths and limitations and evaluation plan.
Reflection of the Experience in Developing the Teaching Plan
During the development of this teaching plan, I realized that it was very important to choose
realistic learning goals and have quality resources. I realized that it was crucial to identify the
knowledge that I would expect the learners to develop at the end of each lesson. Planning too
much may lead to unrealistic goals that may be difficult to achieve (Serdyukov, 2017). I also
learned that hand, mouth, and foot disease is very common among young children. It was,
however, challenging to evaluate my performance because most of the times the class was never
full so making an appropriate evaluation was difficult. I had expected that it would be difficult to
teach all the learners together at the same time to be difficult but I realized that using different
teaching approaches could make this easy. It was therefore easy to make a choice on what
learning method to use at a specific time or during a particular lesson.
I started to prepare for this teaching plan early so time was not a limiting factor. However, there
was a limitation of resources covering hand, foot, and mouth disease thus making the transfer of
knowledge a little challenging. Additionally, it was sometimes impossible to find all the learners
at the same time because they had different schedules at their places of work and thus making it
difficult to appropriately pass knowledge. I was able to learn a lot from this experience and I was
even more motivated by my experience when my professor taught us in class about preparing a