Mid-career Faculty: Best Practice in Teaching & Learning: Innovative & Active Teaching Strategies Grounded in the Learning Sciences

Faculty teaching pediatric content in both PT and PTA education are entrusted to facilitate student competence by developing learning opportunities to advance their knowledge, skills and abilities. Using learner-centered teaching methods, innovative curricular models integrate best practice in teaching from the learning sciences and the published essential core competencies to prepare students for pediatric physical therapy practice. The purpose of this session is to support the professional development of mid-career pediatric faculty through exploration of innovative academic teaching strategies that can enhance the instructional design of pediatric content in the curriculum. This session will provide a synthesized review and application of the learning sciences to pediatric content, while consciously considering ways to facilitate student clinical reasoning capacity, incorporate active and experiential learning activities, employ technology teaching tools, and integrate child-family engagement into teaching methods. Participants will engage in a mentored process to develop a lesson plan for a teaching activity that incorporates the learning sciences, clinical reasoning, experiential learning, child-family engagement, and technology.