TEACHING STRATEGIES PLAN

Week VI Family Centered Care for Adolescence- Classroom

NAME OF LEARNING
ACTIVITY

Role Play

Learning Activity
Summary

Each student draws a piece of paper from a bucket. Each paper

lists a sensitive topic (sexual/reproductive health, gender
identity, substance abuse, eating disorder, mental health, etc).
Students role play nurses (in groups of 2) who must elicit health
history from the adolescent client who is generally
uncooperative. (Senior students volunteer as adolescent
clients.)

Domain of Learning Cognitive (identify level): Applying

(Blooms Taxonomy Affective: Valuing
Revised)
Psychomotor: Perceptual, Guided response
Student-Centered
At the completion of this learning activity, the learner will: 1.
Learning Objective(s) Describe methods to engage the adolescent client in
therapeutic interaction.
2.
Demonstrate procurement of adolescent client health history
through role-play.
Preparation Required
Make enough pieces of paper for each student to draw a
by Teacher/Facilitator sensitive topic. Enlist volunteers from Senior nursing students
and Materials Needed
to play adolescent clients.
Time Allotted

Learning Styles
Addressed by Activity

Dependent on class size. For class of 30 students: 5 minutes to

explain activity. 5 minutes to draw topics and split into groups.
5 minutes per role play x 6 groups= 30 minutes. 10 minutes for
discussion. Total 50 minutes.
Auditory, Visual, Experiential, Collaborative

How is content connected Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Developmental

to prior learning?
Psychology coursework reviewed in pre-class learning.
Reflective Debriefing Brief class discussion. Discussion question. Reflective journal.
with Learners (postlearning activity) How
will it be accomplished?
Evaluation of

Instructor observation, senior nursing students report, self-

Learning (How will it be report, and class discussion. Students complete health history
accomplished?)
and depression screening tool with an adolescent client during
clinical hours this week. Completes Quiz #6 with 90% or above.
Teacher Reflection
Provides students an opportunity to practice asking sensitive
(justify choice of learning questions, utilize collaborative learning, interact with senior
activity and good fit for nursing students, and develop therapeutic communication
the identified learning
skills with adolescent clients.
objectives)