Reflection

These materials are all openly accessible on the Support Around Death  website and can be used in a range of different teaching settings for health and social care professionals.

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

This is a four nation UK research project funded by the ESRC that explores how social workers communicate with children in their everyday practice and how social workers and children involved in these encounters experience and understand them.

The TLC materials are designed to support a range of professionals in the social work arena. Each phase has its own web page where materials can be viewed online or downloaded, along with other relevant materials and links for you to explore.

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.

Written for Learning at Work week, this is a list of resources about mindfulness.

Writing for Learning at Work week, Moira Harris reminds us to be mindful, be kind. Be passionately and compassionately curious.

Written for Learning at Work week, this is a list of resources about reflection.

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.

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

This article is about use of self and the our analysis of the SiSWE standards/ the Degree Review so particularly relevant just now.