Best Practices in Occupational Therapy Education

Patricia Crist, Marjorie Scaffa

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780789021755
• eBook ISBN: 9781136414350
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

Take your OT educational skills to the next level!

Best Practices in Occupational Therapy Education is a must-have resource that showcases successful methods and practices in occupational therapy education. This unique book provides the information that can help you improve your skills to become an even more effective contemporary occupational therapy educator.

Edited by Patricia Crist and Marjorie E. Scaffa, who previously collaborated on Education for Occupational Therapy in Health Care: Strategies for the New Millennium, Best Practices In Occupational Therapy Education highlights OT training methods proven effective by top OT educators. The book examines the effects of level II fieldwork on clinical reasoning in occupational therapy and on the professional development of fieldwork studentsin terms of occupational adaptation, clinical reasoning, and client-centeredness. It also shows how to promote professional reflection through problem-based learning evaluations and activities; how OT students' personality types affect the teaching and learning strategies that work best with them; and how to integrate evidence-based practice into students' academic and fieldwork experiences.

This results-oriented text examines important concepts and approaches in teaching occupational therapy, such as:

• Web-based supports for occupational therapy students during level II fieldwork
• ways to facilitate creative thinking and memory, motivate students, and promote positive learning outcomes
• using evaluation activities in problem-based learning to help students develop professional reflection skills
• customizing your instructional delivery methods to the specific needs of your students
• balancing tradition with innovation
• education specifically aimed at community-based practice
• the benefits of online learning
• methods for developing cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, and active listening skills

The teaching approaches in Best Practices in Occupational Therapy Education are clear and concrete, and include outcomes that support each thesis or learning objective. This analysis of best practices in occupation therapy education is an essential tool for educators that you'll refer to again and again.

Index

Academic administration trajectories

overviews of, 188

reference resources for, 189–190

vectors of, 188–190

Academic discipline and allegiance transcendence, 186–187

Academic management

assumptions vs. realities and, 191–193

future perspectives of, 193

overviews of, 191

reference resources for, 193–194

ACOTE (Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education), 9, 16–18, 138–140, 152–153, 191, 200–201

Active learning, 49–56. See also Critical thinking strategies

ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), 191

Administration trajectories, 188–190

Ahmad, S. G., 202–204

Allegiance transcendence, 186–187

AOTA (American Occupational Therapy Association), 6–7, 26, 32–33, 42, 47, 118, 191, 201–202

Appropriate vs. inappropriate humor, 64–65

Banks, M. B., 2, 204–206

Best practices. See also under individual topics

community-based practice preparations, 137–184

collaborative strategies, 151–170

cultural diversity dialogues, 171–184

program development proposal construction, 137–150

fieldwork education (Level II), 5–48

client-centeredness behaviors for, 39–48

clinical reasoning effects of, 31–38

supervisor vs. student expectations for, 5–20

Web-based supports for, 21–30

instructional methods, 49–70

critical thinking strategies, 49–56

humor-related strategies, 57–70

instructional technology, 107–136

online learning benefits and, 117–126

for post-professional Master's programs, 107–116

WebQuest strategies and, 127–136

overviews of, 1–4

profession-related issues, 185–206

academic administration trajectories, 188–190

academic management, 191–194

deanship skills development, 185–187, 194–197

OTA (Occupational Therapy Assistant) education implications, 199–206

partnership options, 202–204

student professional development, 71–106

PBL (problem-based learning) evaluation activities for, 71–82

personality type implications for, 83–98

student learning portfolios for, 99–106

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Message from the Editors
• Fieldwork Education
• Instructional Methods
• Focus on Student Professional Development
• Instructional Technology
• Preparation for Community-Based Practice
• Editors’ Invited Commentary on Professional Issues
• Index