Session Title
Developing Professionalism in Graduate Students
Session Location
Eberhard Center 515
Session Start Date and Time
24-8-2011 11:00 AM
Session End Date and Time
24-8-2011 12:00 PM
Session Abstract
This session will focus on activities to help develop professional attitudes and behaviors among graduate students, including aspects of critical thinking, leadership interest, voluntary service to the profession, communication, advocacy, and independent learning skills, and other characteristics of professional people. Using a self-rating scale for students developed by Dr. Grapczynski, based on the work of several authors working with students in different professions, the goal is to identify activities and potential research partners to enhance professional development in graduate students.
Session Description
I. Introduction
A. What the research has to say about professional development
B. Discussion of research process used to develop the worksheet
C. How the worksheet is used in the Occupational Therapy Department
D. Teaching/Learning activities to foster professional characteristics
II. Group work creating teaching activities to foster worksheet concepts and constructs
A. Professionalism
1. Personal attributes
2. Expectations and protocols
3. Communication skills
B. Higher Order Cognitive Functioning
1. Critical thinking
2. Desirable intellectual traits
3. Professional socialization
III. Wrap-Up
A. Question and Answer
B. Research interest among other programs/departments
Developing Professionalism in Graduate Students
Eberhard Center 515
This session will focus on activities to help develop professional attitudes and behaviors among graduate students, including aspects of critical thinking, leadership interest, voluntary service to the profession, communication, advocacy, and independent learning skills, and other characteristics of professional people. Using a self-rating scale for students developed by Dr. Grapczynski, based on the work of several authors working with students in different professions, the goal is to identify activities and potential research partners to enhance professional development in graduate students.