My Teaching Statement

According to the guidelines that have been established by Cleveland State University’s American Association of University Professor’s (AAUP’s) contract, 2016, promotion to the rank of clinical assistant professor shall be based on evidence of excellence in teaching and clinical supervision. In this teaching statement, I provide the rationale and evidence to demonstrate that I have modeled excellence in teaching and clinical supervision for my students. Background

I began my career as a physical therapist in 2001 after graduating from The Ohio State University. I was first employed at Easter Seals in Columbus, Ohio where I provided physical therapy services within an early intervention, centered-based facility. In 2003, I was accepted to

Since my first year as faculty, I have been involved in 7 core courses; 3 would be categorized as didactic courses, while my function in the remaining 4 courses is to provide clinical supervision. (See table of courses taught in Section IV). In regards to the 3 core didactic courses, I have an average rating of 4.66 (on a five-point scale) with 94% of students ranking me as an excellent or above average instructor. When assessing my competency with clinical supervision, I have an average rating of 4.94 (on a five-point scale) with 99% of students ranking me as an excellent or above average instructor. (See summaries of student evaluations and graphical representations of data in Section IV). My role (i.e. as a course coordinator, course instructor or lab instructor) has varied based on my teaching load and between academic years due to redistribution of workload and to accommodate staffing changes within the Doctor of Physical Therapy program. As a certified pediatric specialist, I have also been asked to come in as a guest lecturer in other courses both within the Doctor of Physical Therapy program as well as within the School of Health Sciences. The following provides a summary of the core courses for which I am

Longitudinal data was completed for three of my core courses, DPT 776: Physical Therapy Management of Complex Conditions V, DPT 662: Interactions I- Patient-Practitioner Interactions, and DPT 788: Applied Physical Therapy III (a clinical supervision course). The results of these evaluations have demonstrated sequential progress in all areas, including skills in using voice and body, teaching techiniques and behaviors and organizing material/content. (See summaries of peer evaluations and graphical representations of data in Section