A practice educator's commentary on a student's reflective writing demonstrates how students can be encouraged to evaluate their practice and develop their abilities to write in critically reflective ways.
This handout, by Marianne Hughes, Midlothian Council, introduces emotional intelligence and explains its importance to social work, qualifying education and to the role of the practice educator. It also suggests some activities for learners.
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An activity for learners to carry out between supervision sessions to help them consider the importance of an evidence-based approach and apply this to a practice situation.
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Critical reflection, when used specifically to improve professional practice, is reflective practice that focuses on the power dimensions of assumptive thinking, and therefore on how practice might change in order to bring about change in the social situations in which professionals work.
This chapter outlines general reflective processes and thinking, and discusses some of the issues involved with critical reflection specifically.
This is chapter 26 of the…
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A short series of prompts to help students evaluate a piece of research and establish its relevance to practice.
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Scotland's Framework for Social Work Education, setting out standards for social work qualifying education
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This glossary of terms was written for link workers in care homes who were unfamiliar with social work practice education. It will be useful for anyone involved in practice education who is mystified by 'socialworkese'!
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This toolkit was developed to support Work-place Supervisors and Practice Educators assessing Social Work students on practice based placements in Herefordshire.
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A student's critical incident analysis reflecting on the experience of being offered a gift by a service user, with feedback from her practice teacher, Moira Dunworth. The student has given permission for this anonymised account to be shared.
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An example of a student's critical incident analysis about her work with an older person with dementia experiencing grief. Shared by her practice teacher, Moira Dunworth,with the student's permission.
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