Dr. Winsome Stephenson
Dr. Stephenson is a Nurse Educator, Nursing Consultant, Author, and Speaker who has extensive experience in higher education. Her professional expertise includes nursing test item development and evaluation, implementation of strategies for nursing school success, NCLEX student success, transformative teaching and learning strategies in the classroom, curriculum content development and evaluation, nursing learning resource review, and faculty mentorship and development. Past professional roles include Associate Professor, Faculty Chair, Dean of Academic Affairs, Curriculum and Instruction developer, Faculty Development Specialist, and nursing consultant. Dr. Stephenson has taught students in undergraduate and graduate nursing programs both online and onsite.
New Book Release
Faculty Feedback to Students: Help or Harm?
A primary responsibility of educators is to facilitate their students’ learning. They are entrusted with students’ academic growth, so they must utilize all “tools” in their proverbial educator “toolkit” to ensure that students in their classes grow and develop academically. Providing appropriately written feedback is crucial when it comes to accomplishing this objective.
Unfortunately, many new educators (and some experienced ones) lack the training and mentorship necessary to write effective student feedback, and so, although their feedback is well-intentioned, it might serve to harm instead of benefit their students.
“Faculty Feedback to Students- Help or Harm?” provides new and experienced educators with examples of negative and positive student feedback. The book consists of two sections. The first section addresses discussion board scenarios, and the second addresses written assignments. The student’s response, peer responses, an example of negative and positive faculty feedback, and commentary on the faculty feedback are provided for each discussion board scenario. Each written assignment includes detailed instructions for completion, examples of negative and positive faculty feedback, and an analysis of the feedback given. Each chapter ends with blank “Faculty Notes Pages” where educators can write pertinent information from the chapter as they deem necessary.
Breaking The Crippling Chains of Poverty
Chronicles a compelling and profound story of the author’s life as a child who was born into abject poverty and lived in poverty for much of her early life.
She wondered if she would ever know any other life. However, through hard work, perseverance, tenacity, and determination, she defied the odds to break the chains of poverty that threatened to keep her destitute. Through all the challenges and barriers that she encountered, and there were many, she was able to rise out of poverty instead of allowing it to be her eventual outcome in life. This book tells a story that will embolden, inspire, motivate, and empower you.
