{"id":131,"date":"2010-09-06T17:38:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=131"},"modified":"2013-03-15T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:16:11","slug":"teaching-keep-it-simple-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2010\/09\/06\/teaching-keep-it-simple-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching &#8211; keep it simple, stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Oxford CEBM Teaching Conference\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cebm.net\/mod_product\/FileUpload\/Uploads\/287_oxford-st-hughs-college.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"137\" \/>Complex stuff can be really hard to teach. So can simple stuff sometimes &#8211; like how do you teach someone to wipe their own bum? But here at the 16th International Conference on Teaching Evidence-based Medicine (#tebm2010 to those tweeting) it&#8217;s becoming enthusiastically clear that the key elements of teaching anything are the same.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. Be interested in what you&#8217;re telling us.<\/p>\n<p>2. Be an expert in something. Not everything.<\/p>\n<p>3. Connect with your audience.<\/p>\n<p>4. Learn stuff as you teach and for you to teach.<\/p>\n<p>And whatever you are hoping folk will learn, try really hard to get the key messages over rapidly &#8211; enable proficiency &#8211; and let the tincture of time and effort hone that into developed mastery in the years to follow.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complex stuff can be really hard to teach. So can simple stuff sometimes &#8211; like how do you teach someone to wipe their own bum? But here at the 16th International Conference on Teaching Evidence-based Medicine (#tebm2010 to those tweeting) it&#8217;s becoming enthusiastically clear that the key elements of teaching anything are the same. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2010\/09\/06\/teaching-keep-it-simple-stupid\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archimedes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}