Current or inactive students should not be able to provide a testimonial until after graduation. As a student, students and faculty must take extra precautions not to create a situation in that there is a conflict of interest. We should not be buying a student's testimonial, no matter how good, as this could be a way that the student could accuse the instructor, program and even corporation of blackmailing or cohercing their testimonial for a grade. Once the student has graduated, passed national board examination and is hired, then we can ask for a testimonial to show people how successful… >>>

Students who inquire about the Physical Therapist Assistant program at Concorde KOP are provided with a disclosure form that each must sign and is then placed in their file. Each form explains the Physical Requirements/Working Conditions, ATB/GED Statement, Transfer of Credits, Externship/Clinical Requirements, Criminal Background Check, and Emergency Release. The student is also provided with an Enrollment Agreement, Return of Title IV Funds, Criminal Background Disclosure, Student Criminal Background Check Acknowledgement, Personal Data Form, HS/GED Transcript Request, Student Disclosures and Acknowledgements, Consolidated Salary Disclosure, Federal Student Disclosure Federal Placement Rate Disclosure, Federal Student Body Diversity Disclosure, Waitlist Acknowledgement and Programmatic… >>>

I teach physical therapy. I tell my students that they can learn a lot from looking at someone's eyes. We can see fear, pain, happiness, along with many other emotions. The same goes for students. YOu just have to look. But here is my concern. As an instructor, I hate looking in people's eyes. I am a very strong introvert and by looking into the student's eyes, I have to use a lot of energy. However, I can and will do it if necessary, especially when I need to get my point accross. There are many people who are like… >>>

I went to a course on active learning and the development of learning groups. One of the things they taught us there and I found it to be really useful is to develop a questionairre and a rating system based upon the topics that you are learning. You then have the students line up based upon their rating with low at one end and high at the other. They then count down in how many groups you want. I have found that this allows for a mixture of students who have knowledge in the area as well as students who… >>>