January 21, 2003

Monash University Midwifery Elective

The Effective Prenatal Education Elective that we are presenting for Monash University in Victoria is going well. These students have completed one year of their Graduate Diploma in Midwifery and are undertaking this elective in their summer holiday, which is a great sacrifice of precious spare time!

This is the first time that we’ve had the opportunity to work with midwifery students in this way. We aim to give them a good grounding in the preparation and presentation of prenatal programs for parents and hope that they will feel better prepared to tackle this important part of their work as midwives.

On Friday we will be videotaping their presentations. As usual, everyone froze when we mentioned the “video” word, but this is a very simple and effective way to get valuable feedback on one’s facilitation abilities. They will have time tomorrow to prepare the necessary lesson plans (one of the assessment tasks) and their efforts on Friday will be a useful “dress rehearsal” for their other assessment task which will involve videotaping an actual session for parents on a topic of their own choice.

It will be fun to mark these assessments and to see how they have done. Most educational programs these days require that students present to their class mates, so students are often a lot more confident than I was when I first started working with parents. It is always a help when we stress that good quality parenthood education does not involve lots of lecturing (public speaking is a common fear for us all) and that success is best achieved by involving the parents in working through many of the issues for themselves. An educator is really a facilitator and a resource person, rather than a teacher (a term I try not to ever use).

I am looking forward to Friday for a day of fun and games as we all pretend to be in a prenatal class with a variety of presenters and topics to be tackled. It should be immense fun as well as educational all round!

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