Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Learner. Teacher. Physical Therapist.

Last Monday’s (March 16, 2015) activities were a bit tiring but fun learning experience for us. The role-playing, video critiquing and most especially the yoga activity gave us an impression of how important the teacher-learner relationship really is.

Teaching is undeniably one of many significant attributes of being an efficient physical therapist. During the role-playing activity, watching my classmates’ performance level in their assigned roles was just as amusing as witnessing the growth of their respective PTs in dealing with clients in different clinical settings.  As a future physical therapist, it is very crucial that we know how to handle these kinds of clients even in a different context in order to execute therapeutic exercises and modalities effectively that will help them achieve optimal function.

On the video critiquing activity, we were given the opportunity to reflect and discuss our performance on one of the previous videos we did. I realized that although we were already applying some of the basic teaching strategies and techniques, there are still a lot of points that need to be improved such as instructions and feedback. Also, asking the patient for questions or anything that needs clarifications should be a common objective among these three activities.

Lastly, the yoga activity reflects how an effective teaching affects the learning of the learner. This activity emphasized learning to teach through being an effective learner first. Also, using appropriate visual and tactile cues and feedbacks were needed to facilitate a more conducive learning as shown by ma’am Mia Rotor.


Looking through my learning among these three activities, I realized the importance of being a good learner in order to be a good teacher. And being an effective teacher to be an efficient health-care professional.

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