Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Teaching in PT | 03.23.2015 | Instructional Design

We’ve been in circumstances wherein I had to teach something to a person before, but it’s just now that you really think about structuring it. It’s only now that you gauging the level of your learners, and the level of learning you would require them. Often we would just write as many objectives as we can, but now we only need to choose the highest level and omit the lower levels.

It’s also only now that you think about how to measure or assess if the person learned or achieved the objectives. Often when we teach a skill, a mere observation is what we use to evaluate if the student has learned. But there are other ways like return-demonstrations. Also, although it seems like common sense, many forget that a simple question-and-answer can already assess the cognitive domain.

Personally, it’s only now that I thought about objectives in the affective domain. I never really thought about the behavior of someone and how to change it. I now realize the importance of changing the attitudes of clients especially in their views in the importance of what you are doing. And a positive attitude would translate to a positive behavior when doing the activity.

This is just one of the brain exercises we students have to go through to practice the level of intellect required for a full-fledged PT professional. Like our other written exercises, I still can hardly imagine how it all happens in the mind, quickly and repeatedly for the many patients we will encounter. But I’m determined to reach that level as a PTRP.

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