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Faculty
Development
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Among the first efforts of the Foundation's new Institute
for the Study of Occupation and Health were two programs
in faculty development, with the intent of helping faculty
achieve their goals in moving entry-level to the post-baccalaureate
degree as required by ACOTE, the educational certifying body
of the profession.
Curriculum Mentoring Project
The first of these programs concluded at the end of 2002.
This program, called the "Curriculum Mentor's
Project", was designed as a year-long pilot study to
determine what effect a mentor could have on the development
of increased scholarship across faculty and student participants
in a master's entry level program in occupational therapy.
Five schools were selected from amongst the applicant pool
and worked with their mentors for a 12 month period. The program
is being evaluated by a doctoral student in education who
has studied the mentoring process exhibited by the five faculty
groups and their mentors over this period of time. If the
results of the study appear to warrant it, AOTF will seek
grant funds to allow the program to be offered to other programs
wishing to participate. When the report is completed, you
will be able to acces it through this webpage.
Regional Workshop Series
The second program, dubbed the "Regional Workshop Series
on Curriculum Revision", is nearing completion. In this
program, designed collaboratively by AOTA, ACOTE, and AOTF,
groups of schools from geographic locales elect to share a
series of three workshops, each school usually hosting one
workshop. Both academic and fieldwork faculty join in the
exploration of topics designed to move the program into the
graduate education mode, to insure that the concept of occupation
is grounding the curriculum, and that new and innovative fieldwork
methods and sites are represented in each program. To date,
22 schools have participated. If you are interested in having
this dynamic series of learning experiences available to your
program, please contact the Foundation. The Series may still
be available in some regions.
Check here to access the Bulletin
Board of the Regional Workshop Series, and to utilize
the learning experiences posted there.
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