Developing effective skills: teaching tips for practitioners

IT is not always immediately apparent, but there are instances of teaching occurring every day in practice. Nurse training, the mentoring of new graduates or students seeing practice are the more obvious examples, but there are other situations to which some general teaching techniques readily apply such as when explaining a disease process to a client. Liz Mossop, who teaches personal and professional skills at Nottingham veterinary school, suggests some ways that practitioners can deepen the learning experience, whatever the teaching situation.