Crystal Jensen

Crystal Jensen prepares nursing students for success!

Introduction

I live in Claremore where I was born and raised. I have over 13 years of nursing experience. I am a 1999 graduated of RSU. I obtained my BSN from NSU and my Master of Science (Nursing Education) from OU (in progress, graduation date May 2013).

Experience

My work experience includes women's health, public health, home health and community health. My theoretical teaching experience is in Role Transition, Pediatrics, Community, Leadership & Management, and Fundamentals of Nursing. My clinical teaching experience is primarily in Geriatrics, Newborn Nursery and Advanced Med-Surg.

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Teaching Philosophy

Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at hand, seeking and finding his own solution
does one learn.

~ John Dewey, How We Think, 1910 ~

Instruction must provide the student with experiences that make the student willing and able to learn (readiness).

Instruction must be structured so that it can be understood by the student (spiral organization).

Instruction should be designed to facilitate extrapolation (move beyond information given).

My beliefs about the role of the student draw on the work of Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner’s Constructivism learning theory. This theory describes the importance of the student’s active involvement in the learning process as an essential component in constructing their knowledge base. Constructivism states that learner’s do not learn well by listening to a teacher or reading a textbook. Evidence supports that learning is a process involving the learner as an active rather than passive participant. Constructivism learning involves the learner to build on what they already know, to build on past experience. This means that the student is responsible and accountable for much of what they learn. The teacher facilitates learning experiences with the student understanding that he or she must take what they already know, combine that with the concepts presented by the teacher and formulate their own understanding of the content. Therefore the student must be self-directed, self-motivated, and fully accountable for their own knowledge. The teacher does well by the student to assist the student in developing a success plan for learning by assessing and determining the student’s learning style and learning needs. The instructor should have tools and resources available to support the student in obtaining the knowledge required to be successful.

Dewey, J. (1933) How We Think. A restatement of the relation of reflective thinking to the educative process (Revised edn.), Boston: D. C. Heath..
Bruner, J. (1973). Going Beyond the Information Given. New York: Norton. (http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/constructivist.html)
Piaget, Jean. (1973). To Understand is to Invent. New York: Grossman. (http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/faculty/psparks/theorists/501const.htm)