NorQuest College students, might use recipe cards as a creative and effective tool to study and memorize important concepts. Recipe cards provide a compact and organized format for summarizing key information, making them ideal for self-assessment and quick review. Here's how our students can use recipe cards for studying, using nursing studies as an example:
In this Frayer model for Pain Assessment, the term "Pain Assessment" is defined and its key characteristics and examples are outlined. The visual representation section can include diagrams, flowcharts, or illustrations related to pain assessment, which aid in visualizing the concept.
Remember, the Frayer model is a versatile tool, and you can adapt its sections and format to best suit the specific nursing concept you are studying.
By employing recipe cards in their study routine, college students can leverage the power of concise summarization, self-assessment, and active recall. These techniques aid in consolidating knowledge, reinforcing important concepts, and promoting effective learning.
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Vocabulary is Important! At NorQuest College, we have a number of courses that require a great deal of vocabulary acquisition and understanding. Knowing certain terms and their nuances is especially important for new Canadians trying to adjust to cultural norms, for budding scientists who need to clarify and identify exactly what they see, and for health care providers who must have a common lexicon for anatomy and physiology. Many of our students have coped with difficult terms by memorizing exact textbook definitions anticipating that exact definitions will be required on unit tests and quizzes. However, while this strategy may help the students to achieve slightly better marks in the short term, it actually harms the student because their knowledge of many key concepts is superficial at best. Students need to be able to do more than just define a term; they need to know why the term is significant, how it connects to other concepts and what makes it different from other terms. When assessments ask students to use terms in the right contexts, to make comparisons and analysis, and to unpack understandings, students with only a rote knowledge of key terms struggle. One of the many vocabulary strategies I like to use, to help students better understand important terminology, is a graphic organizer known as the Frayer Model. What is a Frayer Model? The Frayer Model (Frayer, Frederick, and Klausmeier, 1969) is a vocabulary strategy that actually helps learners deepen their understanding of key concepts by asking them to consider a number of facets to the terms used. This “deep understanding” comes about when students are pushed to consider a word’s essential and non-essential attributes and to refine their understanding by choosing examples and non-examples of the concept. In order to understand completely what a concept is - one must also know what it is not. How to use it: The Frayer model can be used before teaching a unit as a diagnostic tool to assess prior knowledge, during the unit to consolidate understanding as a form of note taking and after the unit as an assessment of learning.
When using such a strategy with their students, teachers need to make sure that they start with only a few key terms or concepts. Instructors also have to resist filling out the organizers for the students and simply giving the completed charts to the students as study guides. This defeat the individualized experience and accountability of working through the terms. Over the years, practicing teachers have come up with many different variations on the Frayer Model. However, the original Frayer Model focused on helping students to narrow down the meaning for each term by seeing what it is and what it is not. I’ve included a couple of modified Frayer Models I have use to help clarify the difference between more traditional and more constructivist models for teaching. |
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