Academy of Education EEC Phase 1 Course: Scholarly Agendas
Scholarly Agendas
Course Description:
This course provides physical therapist and physical therapist assistant educators with the tools and strategies to develop and implement effective scholarly agendas that advance personal, institutional, and professional goals. Participants will explore the components of successful scholarly agendas, including writing a researchable question, and learn to align their research and academic activities with broader professional priorities.
- Format: Asynchronous, on-demand
- Cost: Academy of Education Members $30, Non-members $75
- Earn CEU: .3 (3 contact hours)
Intended Audience:
New physical therapy faculty
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of the Educational Session, attendees will
- Define a personal scholarly agenda
- Describe the alignment of their scholarly agenda with their other responsibilities.
- Write a researchable question based on their topic of interest
- Outline 3-5 scholarly goals based on their topic of interest
- Summarize a scholarly agenda for CAPTE and/or Institutional purposes
Sarah Gilliland
Dr. Sarah Gilliland received her DPT in Physical Therapy and her PhD in Education. Her post-professional doctoral studies specifically focused on professional development, educational evaluation, curriculum, and clinical reasoning. She has been engaged in qualitative and mixed methods educational research for over 15 years. Dr. Gilliland’s research has focused on physical therapists’ development of clinical reasoning and on qualities of effective teaching. A key area of interest for her is the role of the foundational sciences in health sciences students’ development of clinical reasoning. She is engaged in several national collaborations to further the research in clinical reasoning and teaching and learning in physical therapy. She serves as Chair of the Scholarship of Education SIG for the APTA Academy of Education. She received the Dorothy Briggs Memorial Scientific Inquiry award from APTA in 2018. In addition to her research, Dr. Gilliland has taught basic and clinical science courses throughout the DPT curriculum.
