“Including Field Instruction in Your Social Work Practice: From Mission
to Evaluation”
Sponsored by WVU Division of Social Work

July 22, 2009 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM 
Ohio Valley Medical Center Nursing Residence, Library Room
Wheeling, WV 

(Priority given to new field instructors and task supervisors who will
be hosting a student starting in August 2009, or whose agency is
currently hosting a student, others are welcome as space permits).

Presenters:  Chatman Neely, LCSW, ACSW, PhD Candidate;  Samuel Leizear,
MSW; Sara DeLong, MSW, LICSW, Field Instructor; and Angie Miller, MSW
Candidate

Lunch provided
6 social work CEUs
RSVP by July 20 to Chatman Neely at [log in to unmask]



Purpose: This training is designed primarily for new and potential field
instructors and task supervisors, as well as for those field instructors
and task supervisors who need a refresher because they have not been an
active field instructor/task supervisor for one or more years or because
they initially received training prior to late 2003.
	The purpose of the training is to give new and potential field
instructors and task supervisors some basic knowledge and skills to
enable them, not only to direct social work students with respect to
daily tasks, but also to integrate classroom learning and practice
theories with day-to-day field activities.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this training, participants will have
knowledge to—

1. Understand the place of the field experience in social work
education;
2. Articulate the roles of the field instructor, faculty field liaison,
field instruction coordinator, and student in  the experiential learning
process, including resolution of problems that may arise in the field;
3. Develop with the student a coherent learning contract specific to the
level of field
    instruction that relates field activities with classroom learning;
4. Conduct an effective agency orientation and weekly supervisory
meetings;
5. Identify essential theoretical content as the field placement unfolds
and incorporate this
    content into the experience;
6. Recognize legal and ethical issues related to having a student in the
agency setting;
7. Evaluate student performance.
8.  Define evidence-based practice
9.  Identify potential ways to incorporate evidence-based practice in
their work as field supervisors.