The Practice Educator's Handbook

by Sarah Williams, Lynne Rutter

Overview

This series of books from Learning Matters is aimed at busy social work and health care practitioners, particularly in the context of integrated health and social care, who are looking to enhance their skills and extend their knowledge. Written from a practical point of view, they have clear links to both qualifying training as well as CPD. They are up-to-date, accessible and totally skills focused.

Practice education has never had a more important role in the development and delivery of quality social work practice. Updated to include the BASW (2022) Practice Educator Professional Standards, this Sixth Edition provides step-by-step guidance and support to those undertaking practice educator awards and to those new to the practice education role.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529628234
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/23/2023
Series:	Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
Edition description:	Sixth Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.73(w) x 9.68(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sarah has 15 years experience as a practice teacher both on and off site; eight years experience of developing, leading and delivering Bournemouth University Practice Education Programmes including; the Practice Teaching Programme, Enabling Work Based Learning (as a stand alone programme and within Specialist Awards), and Leading & Enabling Others (within Higher Specialist Awards).

Lynne specialises in professional educational development within post-qualifying (PQ) and continuing professional development (CPD) programmes at the National Centre for Post Qualifying Social Work and Professional Practice at Bournemouth University. Here she has helped design and develop a number of units for both health and social care markets. She facilitates learning about critical thinking, professional reasoning and judgement, evidencing professional learning, leading and enabling others, and service improvement methodology. Lynne's professional and research interests focus on the nature and development of professional reasoning and judgement, and her Professional Doctorate has helped create a unique set of assessment criteria for their development and evaluation within academic written work.

Table of Contents

Foreword from the Series Editors
Introduction: Structure of this book
Practice Educators and Work-Based Learning
DOMAIN A: ORGANISE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DEMONSTRATION OF ASSESSED COMPETENCE IN PRACTICE
Managing Learning: Taking a Partnership Approach
Effective Planning and Preparation (Element 1)
Organising Learning (Elements 2-7)
DOMAIN B: ENABLE LEARNING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE
Understanding Learners
Developing Learning Objectives
Considering Learning Theories
Designing Learning Opportunities
DOMAIN C: MANAGE THE ASSESSMENT OF LEARNERS IN PRACTICE
Understanding the Assessment of Social Work Practice
The Assessment Process
Assessment Methods and their use in the Workplace
APPLYING LEARNING FROM DOMAINS A – C TO ADDRESS CHALLENGING PRACTICE SITUATIONS
Applying learning from domains A – C to support the development of resilience in learners
Applying learning from domains A – C when working in marginal or failing placements
DOMAIN D: EFFECTIVE CONTINUING PERFORMANCE AS A PRACTICE EDUCATOR
Continuing Learning and Development
Conclusions