Angie Myer

About me

Angie Myer has twenty years experience as a teacher and administrator in public schools and higher education. She is currently serving as a Content Accreditation Specialist and Curriculum Consultant for the Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation (COMTA). In this position she works with massage and aesthetics schools in the accreditation process, providing guidance, reviewing self study reports, and preparing analyses for the Commission. Prior to holding this position, Angie worked as Director of Operations at the International School of Professional Bodywork and Dean of Education at Mueller College of Holistic Studies where she was integral in their COMTA accreditation.

Angie holds a Masters degree in Curriculum & Instruction and specializes in competency-based curriculum design. She is also a certified Holistic Health Practitioner and has worked as a massage therapist in private practice, clinical, and resort spa settings. Prior to her work in the holistic health industry, Angie was Associate Professor of Teacher Education at the Community College of Denver after teaching elementary school.

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Self-Study Report Challenges

Patricia, Thank you for the feedback on the chart. If at any time you need some clarification or assistance in completing any part of it, please send me an email at amyer@comta.org. Good luck! Best, Angie Myer

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Generating Effective Feedback

Hi Sandra, Just to clarify, was this client a clinic or a massage school? I'm a little confused on who was requesting the feedback? If it was the clinic, was the school consulted prior to their faculty being solicited, and did the school receive the data? If you could provide additional information on this tip, it would help dramatically. Thank you, Angie Myer

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Effective Assessments

sandra, Thank you for participating! Creative idea. Do you know if these are then used as part of clinic grades? Are they directly tied to the course objectives? Best, Angie Myer

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Student Recruitment

Nancy, Thank you for sharing this information and your efforts! Yes, this is troublesome for our field, and many are working to legitamize massage in the complementary and traditional health arenas. However, as you may know, there is a lot of internal debate about this so as not to de-legitamize the important work done in relaxation/spa massage as well. No easy answers, but I'm glad to see people like you working on the local level to make changes in attitude. I also encourage you to work with national organizations who are dealing with this issue as well. Good luck and… >>>

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Completion, Placement, Licensure

Hi Patricia, Welcome to the forum and thank you for your post. You bring up an often-overlooked resource: faculty. In smaller organizations, in particular, I think the faculty can serve a larger role in many of these areas. It certainly seems to make sense for students (and the school itself) to use them directly in students' placement efforts, instead of just relying on staff. Thanks for the reminder! Best, Angie Myer

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Distance Education Communication

Hi Sandra, Thank 7you for those recommendations. Hopefully people can look into those features and see if they can be aligned with their distance education/Learning Management Systems (LMS). Best, Angie Myer

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Faculty Professional Development

Dear Sandra, Welcome to the forum and thank you for sharing your perspective. I think this post could also be an important contribution to the forums regarding clinic and business competencies. What a great outcomes-oriented, working-backward way to view what is important. I would love to see our forums start contributing to such discussions. Accreditation is usually concerned with the minimum required for ensuring a quality education--but I would love for our participants to help us engage in the question of what does it really take to ensure a "quality massage." Since it's such a subjective art, are there particular… >>>

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Research Literacy

Nancy, Thank you for sharing. Again, this detail provides us with a great understanding of how you seem to have covered all the bases with teaching and assessing this competency on several levels. Well done. Best, Angie Myer

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Distance Education

Nancy, Thank you for your description. The hybrid element sounds like it adds a lot to the learning experience. You mentioned one course was Pathology, but I'm not sure what the other course is. Are these courses operated by your department or another department within a larger organization? Or do you contract with a third party? Open book tests can work as a valuable learning tool in both online and face-to-face setting. The issue of course with online is more concern over cheating. If there is also a face-to-face version of this Pathology class, are they also allowed open book?… >>>

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Clinic

Nancy, Thank you for this detailed explanation. This description would also work well in your SSR narrative to give outside reviewers a clear picture of what you do and how it works for you. Thanks, Angie Myer

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