Emma Shaw – Clinical Educator at the Churchill Hospital in Day Treatment Unit

Emma attended this course in November 2025

Before attending the Teaching the Teachers course my main expectation was to gain more confidence in structuring and delivering teaching, in particular online sessions as these have become more widespread since the pandemic. I haven’t had much experience teaching online and had some reservations about how to engage the learners with this format of teaching and how to gain participation throughout the teaching.

Since attending the Teaching the Teachers course, my approach to teaching both face to face and online has really benefitted from the skills and experience that the course gave me. The practice teaching sessions both face to face and online gave me the chance to take a bite sized topic and really explore the best way of teaching a little mock up lesson in both formats. I was so grateful to be able to experience delivering a fact to face and online lesson to piers and then receive feedback for things that had gone well and things I could look at to improve my approach in the future. Learning in a safe space with a small group of like-minded colleagues really helped as we found that throughout these sessions we were learning so much from each other and it was also reassuring to find that several people had the same concerns and lack of experience with online teaching than I did. I enjoyed working with delegates from completely different clinical areas and beyond nursing as this really gave the group variety and interest.