Teaching Theory & Practice

Catalog description

OCT Z707: TEACHING AND LEARNING THEORY AND PRACTICE IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY CLASSROOM This course serves to prepare students to develop effective teaching techniques and strategies that are needed in several clinical and academic contexts. The course will address the identification of instructional settings in the students’ practice arena, the impact of ethical, legal and economic factors in the educational process along with in-depth review of the various teaching platforms now in use. Determination of effective teaching strategies informed by the principles of learning and the assessment of learner’s stages of development will be examined. Students will be taught how to write measurable learning/behavioral objectives and to problem solve how to facilitate motivation to learn and to improve upon learning compliance. Students will design and deliver a formal learning module for a specific group of learners of their choosing. The course is limited to students in the OTD Post-Professional program exclusively on-line in the asynchronous format. Weeks 1-7.