Assessment 1 – Learning Journey

Part A – The Learning Agreement

Part B – The Mid Placement Review

Part C – The End of Placement Report

Type: Written

Due date:

Part A – Week 3 of your placement hours.

Part B – Between Weeks 7 and 9 (mid-way through) of your placement hours.

Part C - Within two weeks of placement completion.

Weighting: Pass/Fail

Length: Succinct

Unit Coordinator: Robyn Kemble

Aim

Part A

The aim of the Learning Agreement is for you to develop your learning goals which are a commitment by you and the placement agency with CQUniversity to ensure that the AASW (Australian Association of Social Workers) Graduate Attributes are met by the completion of SOWK14009.

Part B

The aim of the Mid Placement Review is for you to assess your progress towards meeting your learning outcomes, where you will meet either in person or online with a Field Education Liaison Officer (FELO) and your field education placement team close to the midway point of your fieldwork. This key assessment point in your placement is what will guide you into meeting the requirements of your placement unit.

Part C

The aim of the End of Placement Report is to evaluate and assess: your application of social work practice standards and ethics, your integration of theory to practice, your approach to supervision and feedback and your learning. This will also be an opportunity to engage in a final conversation with your key mentor/s on placement to share final reflections on your experience.

Instructions

Part A Learning Agreement (LA)

The 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 2.

It is imperative that you 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 Journey template is designed to assist you to develop your learning goals and outlines the nine (9) standards (AASW, 2023) 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 placement in collaboration with your field educator and/or onsite task 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 by Week 4 of your placement timeline.

Part B Mid Placement Review (MPR)

The MPR is a key assessment document and process to allow the unit coordinator to support your ongoing placement.

1. Initiate contact with the FELO and the field educator/s to arrange your MPR meeting (please ensure you do this at the time of your LA 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 LA to the FELO and your supervisor prior to the review meeting.

4. Determine with your supervisor (onsite and/or external) 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 supervisor (onsite and/or external) to confirm that you are accomplishing the terms set out in the LA at a satisfactory standard. This confirmation will determine the remaining process of the visit.

6. Ensure that you take notes during the MPR 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 supervisor/s (as relevant).

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

9. Submit via SONIA and then email to your supervisor for their information (instructions are within the form).

10. Your FELO will also complete a review form which they will email to you to for your information. You will then submit this to Moodle in a timely manner.

Part C End of Placement Report (EPR)

1. The EPR is the final part of evidencing your LA and will allow both you and your supervisor/s to reflect on your strengths and challenges for future growth.

2. Schedule a final supervision session with your supervisor to complete your final review. Please be proactive when scheduling this final supervision and ensuring your supervisor 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 by email to your supervisor to complete their final reflections to support your evidence (instructions are within the form).

Submission

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

2. Part B is a Sonia form you will find available through the Sonia platform, and you will also receive a FELO review via email that you will then upload into Moodle.

3. Part C is also a Sonia form you will find available through the Sonia platform.

Assessment 2 - Reflective Journey –
A - Supervision Record and Action Plan
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 final 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. Supervision undertaken during your placement is an important professional space where in-depth reflection occurs. Feedback is also a vital part of the reflection cycle where your supervisor will guide and support you to evaluate your practice and assist you to incorporate this into your activities during placement. It is therefore important to develop techniques and skills to successfully record, integrate, apply, and reflect on this process.

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

Instructions
Part A – Supervision Record and Action Plans – Due Weeks 5, 10 & 15 (of your placement timeline)
1. You are required to complete a written supervision notes after each 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, prior to each supervision session. You may also share this with your FELO for additional feedback as arranged.
3. You will them submit your notes into Moodle at three points throughout the placement.

Part B – Online Forums – Due Weeks 3, 7 & 12 (of your placement timeline)
1. Submit an online posting of no more than 200 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 confidentiality and respect of participants and/or organisations is upheld.

Submission
1. Supervision notes will be uploaded at three points throughout your placement; Weeks 5, 10 and 15. Please follow the instructions on how this should be submitted on Moodle site.
2. Online reflective forums in Moodle - Weeks 3, 7, and 12 (200 words each)

Assessment 3 – Professional Practice Framework (PPF)

Type: Group Discussion
Due date: Residential School and Week 14 of term (20th October)
Weighting: Pass/Fail
Length: 1 x 5-minutes and 1 x 8 -10 minutes
Unit Coordinator: Robyn Kemble

Aim
The Aim of this assessment is for you to develop capacity to effectively articulate your social work practice. A professional practice framework shows a map of what we do and why, proposing a foundation and rationale 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 peers, and a field education team member at the Residential School prior to your placement.

You will then reflect on this PPF at the end of your placement and record an 8 – 10-minute reflection on your final placement and undergraduate journey. You will then have an opportunity to comment on anything you would change or like to develop further.

Instructions:
1. Using your first placement PPF, you are to prepare a 5-minute oral presentation of your updated PPF using any format (e.g., PowerPoint, Prezi, Word or other).
2. Use a metaphor to assist your presentation (tree, boat, basket, river etc.).
3. This presentation is a concise articulation of the key components within your PPF.
4. Your PPF is to be presented to small group of peers in allocated groups.
5. As your framework is continually developing it will then form part of your supervision agenda.

These presentations should include no more than 5 content slides (excluding title, overview and reference slides if using) outlining the following:
1. A brief summary of the key elements of your PPF through your chosen metaphor.
2. Identify and briefly explain as relevant to your placement context; two or three key theories that inform and two to three key theories that support, that you will develop as part of your evolving PPF.
3. Identify strengths, self-care strategies and areas of further development from your first placement or RPL experience and how this can apply to your early practice as a new social worker.
4. Whilst references are not required, please reference any material sourced as relevant to your PPF.

Finally, you will review and reflect on your PPF in your final weeks of placement and record an 8 - 10-minute presentation of anything you would change or like to develop further and reflect on your social work undergraduate journey.

Please note presenting at the Residential School is a requirement of this assessment. If you cannot deliver on the day, you must seek PRIOR approval from the UC to arrange an alternative process to present.

Submission:
The developed visual material (e.g., PowerPoint/ Prezi/ Word Doc/Poster presentation), plus script used to speak to the visual material (if you used one), will be submitted to Moodle in Week 14 of the term dates (not before – as you will have a chance to amend following feedback in groups and development throughout your placement).