Teaching and Learning Strategies

Catalog description

Teaching and Learning is a 2-credit course during the Spring semester of the first year of the DPT program. This course presents an overview of the process of teaching in settings relevant to physical therapy practice. Presentation of the course materials reinforces earlier coursework from Psychological Issues, and Clinical Seminar with an emphasis on problem-oriented learning, small group discussions, and simulation activities, and instructional unit development. Course content has been organized to provide the student with theoretical and practical knowledge of curriculum design, as well as the clinician as an educator in the academic, clinical, and community settings.