Assessment 1 – Your Learning Journey

Part A - The Learning Agreement

Part B - Mid-Placement Review

Part C - End of Placement Report

Type: Written

Due date:

Part A - Week 2 - 4 of your placement timeline.

Part B - Between weeks 6-8 of your placement timeline.

Part C - Within two weeks of placement completion.

Weighting: pass/fail

Length: Use template supplied

Unit Coordinator: Robyn Kemble

Aim

Part A

The aim of this assessment is to develop a learning agreement which is a commitment by you and the agency where you are placed with CQUniversity to ensure that the AASW Graduate Attributes will be met by the completion of Field Education 1.

Part B

This is the second contact you will have with academic staff or representatives at the field placement review that will take place about mid-way through the placement. You will arrange a meeting with the Field Education Liaison Officer (FELO) and your agency supervisor. This will involve a face-to-face, or online meeting. Whilst the University endeavours to make this review as close as possible to midway, this is not always possible, and it could occur earlier or later than mid-way.

Part C

The end of placement assessment is to evaluate and assess your attainment and application of social work practice standards, ethics, integration of theory to practice, and approach to supervision, feedback, and learning. Also, to engage in a final conversation with your key mentor/s on placement to gather final reflections on your placement experience.

Instructions

Part A Learning Agreement

The Learning Agreement (LA) is the cornerstone of your placement experience and learning journey; it shapes your educational relationships with your field educators (supervisors) who will guide your learning journey in the human services sector. The Learning Agreement provides a framework for determining whether AASW practice standards, competencies, and student attributes have been met during Field Education 1.

You must meet the deadlines stated in your Learning Agreement as this document clarifies and articulates roles, goals, objectives, tasks and strategies, and methods of evaluation that will drive your field education experience. Consolidating these agreements by the due dates is an important milestone, and failure to do so may see the placement terminated.

This Learning Agreement proforma is designed to assist you to develop your learning goals and outlines the eight (8) standards (AASW) as the key learning areas where for each learning area, you must:

1. On the Learning Agreement proforma (supplied), draft a Learning Agreement during Week 1 of your Field Education in collaboration with your field educator and/or supervisor.

2. Construct one or two learning goals for each Standard.

3. The perspectives and approvals of the field educator and/or task supervisor and Field Education Liaison Officer (FELO) must be included in the final Learning Agreement.

4. The final Learning Agreement must be submitted to Moodle.

Part B Mid-Placement Review

1. Initiate contact with the FELO and the field educator/s to arrange a mid-placement review (MPR) meeting.

2. Provide the FELO with details of the meeting. If the meeting is online, arrange an appropriate link, and if the meeting is face-to-face, share directions, parking arrangements, and any other relevant information to assist the FELO.

3. Provide a copy of your learning agreement to the FELO prior to the MPR.

4. Determine with your field educator (supervisor) whether the entire review will include all parties or whether you or they wish to speak with the FELO prior to this meeting.

5. At the outset of the review, the FELO will ask the field educator (supervisor) to confirm that you are accomplishing the terms set out in the LA at a pass-or-fail standard. This confirmation will determine the remaining process of the visit.

6. Ensure that you take notes during the mid-placement review meeting so that you can complete the relevant Sonia form.

7. Complete the MPR Sonia form as guided by your learning goals, and your meeting with your FELO and field educator (Internal or external supervisor +/- task supervisor).

8. Ensure you include an action plan within the MPR if there are significant changes to the original LA or any concerns raised.

9. Submit to your supervisor for approval in a timely manner once this meeting and forms are completed, to allow them to share their feedback (Instructions for this are within the form).

Part C End of Placement Report

1. The End of Placement Report (EPR) is the final part of evidencing your Learning Journey and will allow both you and your supervisor/s to reflect on your strengths and challenges.

2. Schedule a final supervision session with your field educator to complete your final review. Please be proactive when scheduling this final supervision and ensuring the field educator has a copy of the updated LA proforma.

3. Access the EPR through Sonia.

4. Completing the sections where you consider key learnings that you have achieved on placement as relevant to each standard.

5. Send your EPR to your field educator to complete their final reflections to support your evidence (instructions are included within the Sonia form).

Documents that can be used to assist you to create your learning goals include:

a. AASW Practice Standards

b. AASW Code of Ethics,

c. Organisational Codes of conduct,

d. CQUniversity’ s Student Charter

e. Student Misconduct policy, and,

f. Any other relevant occupational health and safety policies relating to the placement setting.

Submission

1. Part A must be submitted to Moodle using Microsoft Word Document or PDF.

2. Parts B and C are Sonia forms you will find available through the Sonia platform.

Marking Criteria

· Please refer to the marking criteria on the Moodle site for more detail on how grades will be assigned.

Assessment 1 – Learning Journey – SOWK13009 – Grading Sheet

Assessment 2 - Your Reflective Journey

A - Supervision Records

B - Online Forums

Type: Written

Due date: Throughout Placement (see below)

Weighting: pass/fail

Length: Various (see below)

Unit Coordinator: Robyn Kemble

Aim

As a student on your first field education experience, you will have an opportunity to further develop your skills and knowledge in reflective and reflexive practice and how to utilise supervision effectively. Student supervision undertaken during your placement is one of the important professional spaces where this in-depth reflection occurs. Feedback is a vital part of the reflection cycle. Your supervisor will provide guidance and support to identify and evaluate your practice to assist you to incorporate this into your activities during placement. Therefore, it is important to develop the techniques and skills to successfully record, integrate, apply, and reflect on this process.

You are provided with reflective tools to provide you with a process and evidence to integrate theory to practice. This will assist you in demonstrating the attainment of the practice standards to meet the eligibility criteria set out by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) and social work graduate learning outcomes.

Instructions

Part A – Supervision Records

1. You are required to complete a written supervision record after each weekly supervision session with your relevant social work supervisor, using the Supervision Record and Action Plan, template, please ensure you keep your word limit to a minimum and use dot points.

2. Share your supervision record with your supervisor for review and feedback before each supervision session.

3. Submit to Moodle for review on three occasions throughout your placement.

Part B – Online Forums

1. Submit an online posting of no more than 300 words in the Moodle forum on THREE occasions, where you will:

a. make professional links from theory to practice,

b. discuss learning, and

c. provide support to your peers.

2. Please revisit “netiquette” rules to ensure that confidentiality and respect of participants and/or organisations is upheld.

Submission

1. Supervision Records are to be uploaded on three occasions in a single file, weeks 4, 8, and 12 of your placement timelines (please inform the UC of adjusted time frames if you are part-time).

2. Online reflective forums through Moodle approximately weeks 3, 7, & 11 of your placement timelines (please inform the UC of adjusted time frames if you are part-time).

Marking Criteria

Please refer to the marking criteria on the Moodle site for more detail on how grades will be assigned.

Assessment 2 – Reflective Journey – SOWK13009 – Grading Sheet

Assessment 3 – Your Professional Practice Framework (PPF)

Type: Presentation

Due date: Week 10 of Term

Weighting: pass/fail

Length: 10-minute presentation

Unit Coordinator: Robyn Kemble

Aim

The aim of this assessment is for you to develop the capacity to effectively articulate your social work practice. A professional practice framework shows a map of what we do and why, proposing a foundation for practice, as well as fostering a range of practice tools for assessments and interventions.

You are required to present your emerging PPF with a small group of your peers and a field education team member through an online platform (i.e., Zoom).

Instructions:

1. You will need to refer to the online meeting instructions on Moodle for links and times.

2. You are to prepare a 10 min VERBAL presentation of your PPF, using any format (e.g., PowerPoint, Prezi, Word or other).

3. You will use a metaphor to assist your presentation (Tree, boat, basket, river etc.)

4. This presentation is a concise articulation of the key components within your PPF.

5. Your PPF is to be presented to a small group of your peers in allocated groups.

6. As your framework is continually developing, it should form part of your supervision agenda.

The presentation should include:

1. A brief summary of the key elements of your PPF.

2. Identify and briefly explain the relevant theories, methods, values, skills, and practice contexts comprising your PPF.

3. Identify strengths and areas of further development in Field Education 2.

4. Your final slide is a summary of your overall experience of your placement journey and PPF creation.

Please note attendance at these sessions is requirement of this assessment. If you cannot attend, you must seek PRIOR approval from the UC to arrange an alternative group or process to present. If your allocated group is not suitable then it is the student's responsibility to arrange to swap with a peer and then notify the UC of this arrangement.

Submission:

The developed visual material (e.g., PowerPoint/ Prezi/ Word Doc) plus script used to speak to the visual material (if you used one) will be submitted to Moodle within one week following the presentation (not before – as you will have a chance to amend following feedback in groups).

Marking Criteria

Please refer to the marking criteria on the Moodle site for more detail on how grades will be assigned.

Assessment 3 – Professional Practice Framework – SOWK13009 – Grading Sheet