Spring 2027

Physical Therapy Education and Lifespan Learning Issues

Covers instructional design, lifespan learning theories, literacy issues, professional presentations, the therapist as educator, and clinical emotional preparation.

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Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=40 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Raise relevant questions and articulate their personal point of view relative to the seminar topics when participating in class discussion.

  • Examine and demonstrate adult learner concepts and learning preferences.

  • Examine the fundamentals of learning objectives in the mastery of clinical skills.

  • Recognize and examine the aspects of performance anxiety that relate to clinical performance and how to deal effectively with performance anxiety

  • Discuss and explain the role of the clinical instructor and the student/intern by satisfactorily completing assignments and participating in class discussion.

  • Compose effective behavioral learning objectives.

  • Demonstrate knowledge of learning theory and cognitive development.

  • Identify characteristics of learners through the lifespan.

  • Identify various roles the therapist plays in the realm of education.

  • Demonstrate principles of instructional design.

  • Implement effective group and individual presentation strategies.

  • Identify barriers to learning for clients and future students.

  • Effectively utilize instructional media for course presentations and for future educational endeavors as appropriate to presentation.

  • Integrate principles of Group Process for use in group projects.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Doctor of Physical Therapy program

  • Declared in Doctor of Physical Therapy program
PHYTHER 539

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  • Declared in Doctor of Physical Therapy program

Professors

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=40 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Instructional design
  • Lifespan learning theories and learner characteristics
  • Literacy issues and learning barriers
  • Professional presentations and instructional media
  • The physical therapist as educator and clinical instructor roles
  • Professional behaviors and clinical emotional preparation
  • Learning objectives for clinical skill mastery
  • Group process and collaboration

Skills

  • Principles of instructional design
  • Learning theories and cognitive development
  • Literacy issues and barriers to learning
  • Professional presentations and instructional media
  • The physical therapist as educator
  • Professional behaviors and emotional preparation
  • Composing behavioral learning objectives
  • Group process integration

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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