Description
Practical guidance that will further knowledge and engender confidence for any teachers, assessors and supervisors on courses with a practice learning component, based on the authors first-hand experience and international multi-disciplinary research and literature.
Chapter
SUPPORTING STRUGGLING STUDENTS ON PLACEMENT
Concerns about practice learning
Struggling, marginal, borderline or failing?
Aims and scope of the book
1. The context of practice learning and assessment across professions
The importance of practice learning
Developments in social work education
Practice education developments
Further social work education developments
Concerns about practice learning
What is practice learning and assessment?
The challenges of assessing practice
2. How do we know when a student is failing to achieve the required standards?
Temporary blocks to learning
How do we know if a student is at risk of failing?
Limitations of the trait approach
What is it to ‘fail’ the placement?
Failing placements and practice educators?
3. The emotional impact of working with a struggling student
Why am I a practice educator?
Early experiences of education
Possible impact on the assessment process
Getting in touch with feelings of failure
Emotional processes and models
4. Assessment and strategies for working effectively with struggling students
The role of the practice educator
‘Saying it as it is’ or having courageous conversations
Using the assessment framework well
Teaching and learning tools
Concerns meetings and action planning
Writing the assessment report
Strategies for avoiding the drama and pain
Discrimination and oppression
5. Working constructively with key stakeholders in social work education
Understanding the dynamics of field–academy relationships
Ten essential building blocks for constructive working relationships
The contested nature of professions
The emotions of teaching and learning
Anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice
From struggling to failing?
Fifteen steps to working effectively with (struggling) students on placement
Supporting struggling students on placement
：A practical guide
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