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
Written for Learning at Work week, this is a list of resources relating to the assessment of learners.
Written for Learning at Work week, this is about a tool which enables wider feedback on a student's practice.
ALPS is the Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
This is a suite of generic assessment tools for use in practice. The formative assessment tools were mapped to three identified Common Competences; Communication, Team Working and Ethical Practice.
Practice learning accounts for half of the content of the bachelor of social work degree course requirements in Northern Ireland in their field education programmes and share a professional and ethical responsibility with practice teachers to provide appropriate learning environments to prepare students as competent and professional practitioners.
The Field Educator is an online journal published by the Simmons School of Social Work that promotes knowledge exchange among the social work field education community.
Since the academic year 2013-14 within England, Practice Educators (PEs) have been required to assess social work students during field placements using the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) and according to the principles of holistic assessment. Whilst the adoption of the PCF as part of the national change agenda is currently being scrutinised and debated, there has been little research or analysis regarding the practice assessment of social work students on placement and, in particular, the views and experiences of PEs charged with this responsibility.
This discussion paper is the first in a series of shared resources from the Tayforth Practice Learning Partnership and considers how explosive metaphors can help us understand the dynamics of practice learning in Social Work Education to ensure we have strong processes and relationships.
A resource to begin conversations among groups of learners on defining supervision.
This toolkit was developed to support Work-place Supervisors and Practice Educators assessing Social Work students on practice based placements in Herefordshire.
