Facilitating Learning

This excellent resource has been created by Caroline Aldridge and Sandra McGough (What Work Well Leads, Norfolk County Council, 2018).

Caroline and Sandra are happy to share their resources and ideas. If you use this tool please tell them and give them feedback on the Padlet website or on Twitter: @CarolineAldrid5 or @McgoughSandra

Placements are crucial for the education of student social workers, but they have a huge benefit for the teams they're placed with too. Deirdre Fitzpatrick, ScOPT Trustee, has made a short video illustrating the advantages to teams of having a student and the benefits, too, to the student. It's just one minute long.

Helping others to facilitate learning in the workplace: A Practical Guide

In UK social work education, practice educators supervise and assess students while they are on placement. Practice placements are the most important element of social work degree courses, accounting for half of the overall programme for undergraduates. So the role of the practice educator is vital, particularly if a student is struggling or at risk of failing.

Improve your digital knowledge and experiment with tools in the SSSC's new self-directed course, 23 digital capabilities to support practice and learning in social services.

Supporting struggling students on placementA new book by Jo Finch is published next month: Supporting struggling students on placement, a practical guide.

This rich set of links to Facilitation Resources has been compiled by Chris Corrigan. It is not aimed at social work, but many of the resources will be useful for practice educators.

By and large these resources support facilitation of participatory and self-organizing process at scales ranging from very small groups to large conferences.

Social Work Toolkit is a Twitter account (@socialworktools) that features social work tools and direct work activities for students, practitioners, managers and specialists.

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