Maternal Responsibility Teaching Session Reflections

This is the learning issue I undertook in this project. I feel that it's pretty important because I felt that my mom really had a GREAT sense of responsibility when she had me(drinking so much soy milk, which explains for my fair skin - she said, & she definitely took enough folate). So personally, PLUS general reading about abnormal babies coming from mothers with bad lifestyle habits, I feel that maternal responsibility really plays a major role in the development of a healthy and normal child.

So basically I picked out the main subpoints in this learning issue by rewatching the scenario vids & reviewing the lecture notes on Clinical Teratology as well as Folate & Vitamin B12.

Main Subpoints

• Biological factors: Nutrition, Teratogen Sources(smoking/drinking habits)
• Social factors: Education & Finding a job

I simply wrote a paragraph or two elaborating on the points listed above and sent them to the group members. I also used simplified presentation slides to present to the group. I think that's really the most "conventional" way to teach. The pictures helped too.

As the learning issues were pretty straightforward, it wasn't met with disagreements from group members. An interesting issue we discussed briefly was the fact that one baby(Jessica) would have a father and the other(Deborah) wouldn't. We all agreed that that's gonna have a large effect on the child's quality of life, plus the fact that Deborah had significantly less financial support than Jess(who still had her family backing her up). Though this isn't entirely relevant to maternal responsibility, it was another interesting issue we looked into.

On the whole, this teaching session was basically a presentation of this learning issue, which also started a discussion about new ideas/issues, so I think it was really interesting/effective for learning.

I gave a quiz at the end. The quiz was more scientific than my presentation was(I think I'm better at presenting social issues, they're less "boring" LOL) now that I think of it. Some of the feedback forms I got was that my presentation lacked scientific depth. My defence for that is that we could always refer to our lecture notes for those information :P But yeah, I agree I could have elaborated a little bit more on the scientific basis of some of my topics especially teratogenesis. But overall, the delivery of the content was pretty smooth and I'm pretty satisfied with it.