Achieving curricular themes through learner-centered teaching.
This paper focuses on the use of the four specific learner-centered teaching approaches: service-learning, learning through discussion, team-based learning, and a structured research course sequence in an occupational therapy curriculum. These methods are used to develop the four curriculum themes of engagement, critical thinking, innovations in practice, and clinical reasoning. The outcome of these approaches has been that students have taken more responsibility for their learning and shown increased maturity while promoting faculty creativity. Additionally, students have developed skills and interests in social and community engagement, and have sought jobs in community-based practice areas.
Department of Occupational Therapy, University of the Sciences, 600 South 43rd Street, PO Box 24, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 p.kramer@usip.edu.
Paula
P
Kramer
Roger I
RI
Ideishi
Pamalyn J
PJ
Kearney
Michelle E
ME
Cohen
Joanne Oppermann
JO
Ames
Geraldine Borelli
GB
Shea
Ruth
R
Schemm
Phyllis
P
Blumberg