WVU Division of Social Work presents:

“Including Field Instruction in Your Social Work Practice:  Training
for New, Potential and Returning Field Instructors”

March 18, 2009, 9:30am-2pm
Instructors:  Betsy Randall, PhD, LICSW and Debra Young, MSW, EdD
Candidate

Health Sciences Center Rm. 3296
3110 MacCorkle Ave SE, Charleston

Approved for 3.75 Social Work CEUs

RSVP by March 16 to Judy Newhouse at [log in to unmask]  or
304-347-1331

Agenda

9:30 - 12pm	Introductions; Overview of the part-time Social Work
Curriculum at WVU and
(w/ 15 min. break)	the Place of the Field Experiences in the
Curriculum; Mission of Social Work Field Education; Effective Field
Supervision; Integrating Theory with Practice; The Learning Contract;
Evaluation of Student Progress

12-12:45pm		Lunch

12:45-2pm	Ethical Issues in Field Education; Supervisory Record
Keeping; Evidence Based Practice in Field Education; Discussion and Q &
A 

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.



Jacki Englehardt, MSW, ACSW
Coordinator of Professional and Community Education
Division of Social Work
West Virginia University
PO Box 6830
Morgantown, WV 26506

304-293-3501, ext. 3109
fax:  304-293-5936
cell: 304-282-0321
Summer Institute on Aging Website:  www.wvsioa.org
WVU Division of Social Work Website:  http://socialwork.wvu.edu