| Abstract/Notes |
Every day PTs and PTAs are engaged in teaching and learning. They design and implement strategies to facilitate change in patients' helth behaviors, demonstrate lifting techniques to family members, guide students trough clinical interships or clinical residencies,present in-service programs or grand rounds to their health care colleagues,deliver professional presentations at local and national meetings, serve on curricular committees or program advisory boards, plan and implement health promotion programs for members of the community, and consult with teachers in the local school system. Perhaps no process other than teaching and learning so permeates the professional contributions made by members of the physical therapy profession. Teaching is a skill that PT's often take for granted. We have all experienced many years of being taugh; that is,we have been appretices of teaching and teachers through our life expriences as learners. During these years, we have observed both effective and ineffective teaching. Ineffective teaching can leave teachers and students frustated and alienated from learning more about teaching-or,at worst,learning more about anything at all. Few PT's and even fower PT As have been exposed to the subtantial and informative body of knowledge,research and theory that exists in education. |
