The mission of COTE is to Re-imagine Occupation-centered Education through research and professional development.
Dr. Barbara Hooper launched the Center for OT Education in 2008 to support research and professional development in occupation-centered education. Occupation-centered education is defined as a process of “designing all learning—from micro-learning tasks to macro curriculum designs—in such a way that students cannot escape except by making explicit links among the topic of the day, occupation, and associated reasoning processes” (Hooper, Krishnagiri, & Price, in press).
All initiatives at COTE are driven by the Subject-centered Integrative Learning Model (SCIL-OT), a profession-specific education model that guides educators in curriculum and instructional design and teaching. The SCIL-OT is integrated with the best instructional and curriculum design practices from the field of education.
Consider working with COTE if you would like to:
- Make occupation more explicit in courses, class sessions, materials, assignments, and learning assessment strategies,
- Re-imagine occupation-centered learning and explore a model to help ground the whole curriculum in occupation,
- Link learning outcomes and assessment more closely with occupation,
- Launch a curriculum (re)design process,
- Align the elements of a curriculum design across aim, learning philosophy, learning outcomes, and others.
Opportunities for Hands-on Professional Development for Curriculum and Instruction Design:
- Curriculum and instruction consultations
