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Schedule

This workshop includes both on-site and required virtual sessions. Links to the virtual sessions will be provided to registered participants. To receive Continuing Education Hours for the pre-workshop virtual sessions, participants must complete and submit Knowledge Check Exercises following each session.

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Pre-Workshop Asynchronous Virtual Sessions

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​General Characteristics of Higher Education: Mission, Administrative Structure, Faculty Roles & Handbook, Workload, and Promotion and Tenure  (1 hour)

Deanna Lamb, Elise Ruckert, and Michael A. Pagliarulo

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  • As an orientation to higher education, this session will address:

    • institutional and program missions (do they align with yours?)

    • features of  higher education administration (who's in charge here?)
    • faculty roles, workload, and process for promotion and tenure as described in the institution's Faculty Handbook (what's expected of me?)

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Technology in Physical Therapy Education  (1.5 hours)

Elise Ruckert and Mike Wong
 

  • This will include a description and application of  technology across in person and hybrid/blended instructional delivery models in physical therapy education. Participants will analyze instructional technology tools for cognitive, psychomotor, and affective physical therapy learning goals.

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Professional Development: Student and Faculty (1 hour)

Michael A Pagliarulo

  • Means to identify and improve student professional behavior will be addressed. Components of a faculty development plan will be reviewed, resulting in the construction and submission of a personal plan following the session and reviewed on-site.

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On-Site Schedule


Day 1

 

  • 7:30-8:00 am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

  • 8:00-9:15 am: The Journey Begins: Welcome to the Academy! Michael A. Pagliarulo and Deanna Lamb

    • Welcome, Introductions, Challenges and Rewards; review of post-session questions from General Characteristics of Higher Education and Professional Development.

  • 9:15-9:30 am: Break

  • 9:30-12:30 pm (Includes Break): What’s My Color? What’s Your Color?  Janet Bezner

    • The management of human relationships and the appreciation of relating one temperament to another are crucial to success in higher education.  The Color Profile session provides a model for relationships at all levels, as participants will identify their color or personality type and explore the way in which their color spectrum influences their communications and behaviors.

  • 12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch on your own

  • 1:30-5:30 pm  (Includes Breaks): Systematic Effective Instruction - Part I. Elise Ruckert and Jennifer Halvaksz

    • Participants will apply a systematic approach to instructional design that considers the characteristics, learning styles, and needs of the learner. Participants will develop objectives, motivational hooks, content boosters, and active learning strategies to engage learners and reinforce content. Participants will apply these concepts as well as the use of technology to their own teaching situations.

  • 5:30-5:45 pm:  Take Home Messages. All

  • 6:00 pm: Dinner on your own

 

Day 2

  • 8:00 am-12:00 pm (Includes Breaks): Systematic Effective Instruction - Part II. Elise Ruckert and Jennifer Halvaksz

    • This continuation of Systematic Effective Instruction addresses formative and summative strategies of assessment. Participants will link assessment to objectives and develop effective rubrics and multiple-choice questions. Participants will have multiple opportunities to integrate theory and application to the assessment process.

  • 12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch on your own

  • 1:00-3:00 pm: Concurrent Sessions:

    • PTs: Developing and Maintaining a Scholarly Agenda. Chris Sebelski

      • An important aspect of the "academic balancing act" for new faculty — understanding the role of scholarship in an academic career. Reviews strategies and tools for efficiently planning and intentionally engaging in scholarly work, work with students, and meeting disciplinary/institutional expectations.

    • PTAs: Case Studies of Issues Unique to PTA Education. Deanna Lamb​

      • This will be a discussion and Q&A session on issues unique to PTA education.

  • 3:00-3:15 pm: Break

  • 3:15-5:15 pm: Federal Laws that Impact Higher Education. Ellen Wruble

    • Federal laws that involve students and faculty will be reviewed to ensure compliance.

  • 5:15-5:30 pm: Take Home Messages. All

  • 6:30-8:30 pm: Fun with New Friends

 

Day 3

  • 8:00-9:15 am: Accreditation. Lamb

    • The purpose, types, and process of accreditation as pertains to physical therapy education programs will be addressed. CAPTE Standards and Required Elements as applied to PT and PTA education programs will be included.

  • 9:15-9:30 am: Break

  • 9:30-10:30 am: How to Thrive not Just Survive in Higher Education: Stress and Conflict Management. Pagliarulo

    • Techniques and application of stress and conflict management in higher education will be described.

  • 10:30-10:45 am: Break

  • 10:45-11:30 am: Career Planning: Trends and Resources in Physical Therapy Education, and Faculty Development Plan. Lamb and Pagliarulo

    • This final content session will consider future trends and resources in physical therapy education. Revisions to previously submitted Faculty Development Plans based upon workshop content will be discussed.

  • 11:30-12:00 pm: Final Take Home Messages and Distribution of CEU Certificates. All

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Post-Workshop Virtual Session

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Application of Workshop Content (1 hour)
Pagliarulo, Lamb, Ruckert, and past workshop participants
Synchronous, date TBD, recorded for those unable to attend

  • This session is a review of application of workshop content on the impact on the academic role and career of the participants. Past participants will share the same.

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