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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