Teddy Bear Clinics--The Power of Collaboration!
Presentation Format
Poster
Intended Audience
All Audiences
Presentation Description
This poster session brings together two very unlikely bedfellows and presents a unique experience for teacher candidates and nursing students. Together, both groups of students are challenged to think outside the box with creativity, innovation, and critical thinking skills. This poster session will highlight these experiences captured by both groups of students.
This poster session will also demonstrate the visuals of the varying clinics and their impacts on the local community. After one Teddy Bear Clinic was conducted as part of a “Trick-or-Treat” event at a local mall which impacted over 200 community families, the School of Education and the School of Nursing were asked to again collaborate their efforts and provide another Teddy Bear Clinic for an HIV Awareness event in addition to the ongoing Teddy Bear Clinics being conducted in several elementary and middle schools as part of this service learning experience. The poster will highlight the chosen health and wellness topics chosen by the nursing students, what activities the teacher candidates added to engage the Pre-K—8 students in developmentally appropriate activities to make the lessons more engaging, and children’s literature that correlates with the chosen topics that teacher candidates researched. Bulletin boards that both the nursing students and teacher candidates worked on to compliment the topics will also be highlighted. Finally, grant items will be highlighted that correlate with the topic as a demonstration for both the benefits and challenges of a truly viable service learning partnership.
This poster will highlight four objectives that the teacher candidates and nursing students worked to achieve through this experience. First, they learned to enable community engagement and promote leadership by directly working with the administration and faculty of Glynn County Schools. Second, teacher candidates and nursing students experienced an enhanced understanding of course content by researching and building lesson plans that included knowledge gained in coursework to create developmentally-appropriate English/Language Arts and writing activities that also assisted with the teaching of the health and wellness content. Third, they developed critical and creative thinking and reflection skills by ensuring the lesson plans and activities were developmentally appropriate and by choosing children’s literature that was also developmentally appropriate for the grade and content being taught. Finally, this service-learning project promoted social responsibility, global awareness, and openness to diverse perspectives for the teacher candidates and nursing students as they learned the demographics of the students in the Glynn County Schools system and recognized the impact of this project on students in Glynn County via how they reacted to the content being taught, how it was taught, and the children’s literature presented with the content.
Location
Embassy Suites Hotel
Start Date
4-13-2016 5:00 PM
End Date
4-13-2016 7:00 PM
Recommended Citation
Hartman, Sarah R., "Teddy Bear Clinics--The Power of Collaboration!" (2016). Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning 2016. 52.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gss/2016/2016/52
Teddy Bear Clinics--The Power of Collaboration!
Embassy Suites Hotel
This poster session brings together two very unlikely bedfellows and presents a unique experience for teacher candidates and nursing students. Together, both groups of students are challenged to think outside the box with creativity, innovation, and critical thinking skills. This poster session will highlight these experiences captured by both groups of students.
This poster session will also demonstrate the visuals of the varying clinics and their impacts on the local community. After one Teddy Bear Clinic was conducted as part of a “Trick-or-Treat” event at a local mall which impacted over 200 community families, the School of Education and the School of Nursing were asked to again collaborate their efforts and provide another Teddy Bear Clinic for an HIV Awareness event in addition to the ongoing Teddy Bear Clinics being conducted in several elementary and middle schools as part of this service learning experience. The poster will highlight the chosen health and wellness topics chosen by the nursing students, what activities the teacher candidates added to engage the Pre-K—8 students in developmentally appropriate activities to make the lessons more engaging, and children’s literature that correlates with the chosen topics that teacher candidates researched. Bulletin boards that both the nursing students and teacher candidates worked on to compliment the topics will also be highlighted. Finally, grant items will be highlighted that correlate with the topic as a demonstration for both the benefits and challenges of a truly viable service learning partnership.
This poster will highlight four objectives that the teacher candidates and nursing students worked to achieve through this experience. First, they learned to enable community engagement and promote leadership by directly working with the administration and faculty of Glynn County Schools. Second, teacher candidates and nursing students experienced an enhanced understanding of course content by researching and building lesson plans that included knowledge gained in coursework to create developmentally-appropriate English/Language Arts and writing activities that also assisted with the teaching of the health and wellness content. Third, they developed critical and creative thinking and reflection skills by ensuring the lesson plans and activities were developmentally appropriate and by choosing children’s literature that was also developmentally appropriate for the grade and content being taught. Finally, this service-learning project promoted social responsibility, global awareness, and openness to diverse perspectives for the teacher candidates and nursing students as they learned the demographics of the students in the Glynn County Schools system and recognized the impact of this project on students in Glynn County via how they reacted to the content being taught, how it was taught, and the children’s literature presented with the content.
Program Abstract
This poster session will demonstrate the collaborative efforts of the teacher education and nursing programs from the College of Coastal Georgia. Visualize the following lessons through their creative activities, created and implemented in Teddy Bear Clinics to students in Preschool-8th grade, across elementary and middle schools in Glynn County: physical activity, online stranger danger, child restraint seat laws, mental health and suicide prevention, sunscreen and insect repellent, bicycle and helmet safety, hand hygiene, and immunizations.