MSSW Foundation Student Learning Agreement and Evaluation

SOCW 5488 & SOCW 5498

Student:

Agency:

Field Instructor/Supervisor:

Date:

Mid-Placement Evaluation: Final Evaluation:

Statement of Purpose:

For social work education a student’s field placement is the hallmark of direct practice experience and the integration of skills/knowledge with academic learning. In accordance with the national accreditation body, Council on Social Work Education, social work education must incorporate not only a field placement and accompanying seminar course but evaluation of the students overall learning and performance in their field placement. This Learning Agreement and Evaluation serves those purposes and utilizes the competencies and practice behaviors as noted below.

Students:

With the assistance of your Field Instructor/Site Supervisor and Field Coordinator, you will identify and record your learning objectives and evaluation measurements for each practice behavior in the shaded space below the bulleted practice behavior. (What specific tasks, responsibilities, assignments, and activities will help you to demonstrate this competency and practice behavior? How will it be measured? ) It is important that you individualize this for your particular field placement agency and your own learning goals. This portion is due 3wks after the start of your field placement. This will guide your learning and placement over the course of two semesters and required 400 hours.

Field Instructors/Site Supervisors:

With your guidance and support the below criteria will compromise the goals, objectives, and overall learning that the student will receive during the course of their field placement with your agency. It will serve as a roadmap and evaluation of the student’s overall progress and performance as an intern in your agency. The field instructor/site supervisor, student, and field coordinator or liaison will meet to conduct an evaluation of the student’s progress a minimum of two times during their placement, mid-placement and final completion of field hours.

As the field instructor, the student will need your support to identify learning objectives and evaluation measurements that are appropriate for your agency. At the mid-placement evaluation and final evaluation the following will be utilized for evaluation:

1 -Unsatisfactory 2 – Marginal 3 – Satisfactory 4 - Above Expectations 5 - Exceeds Expectations

Competency #1: Identifies as a professional social worker and conducts oneself accordingly.

Practice Behavior/Skill Area / Evaluation / Comments
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 1. Advocate for client access to the services of social work
PB 2. Practice personal reflection and self-correction to assure continual professional development
PB3. Attend to professional roles and boundaries
PB 4. Demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior, appearance, and communication
PB 5. Engage in career-long learning
PB 6. Use supervision and consultation

Competency #2: Applies social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.

Practice Behavior/Skill Area / Evaluation / Comments
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 7. Recognize and manage personal values in a way that allows professional values to guide practice
PB 8. Make ethical decisions by applying standards of the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics and, as applicable, of the International Federation of Social Workers/International Association of Schools of Social Work Ethics in Social Work, Statement of Principles
PB 9. Tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts
PB 10. Apply strategies of ethical reasoning to arrive at principled decisions.

Competency #3: Applies critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.

Practice Behavior/Skill Area / Evaluation / Comments
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 11. Distinguish, appraise, and integrate multiple sources of knowledge, including research-based knowledge, and practice wisdom
PB 12. Analyze models of assessment, prevention, intervention, and evaluation
PB 13. Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and colleagues.

Competency # 4: Engages diversity and difference in practice.

Practice Behavior/Skill Area / Evaluation / Comments
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 14. Recognize the extent to which a culture’s structures and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege and power
PB 15. Gain sufficient self-awareness to eliminate the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse groups
PB 16. Recognize and communicate their understanding of the importance of difference in shaping life experiences
PB 17. View themselves as learners and engage those with whom they work as informants

Competency #5: Advances human rights and social and economic justice.

Practice Behavior/Skill Area / Evaluation / Comments
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 18. Understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination
PB 19. Advocate for human rights and social and economic justice
PB 20. Engage in practices that advance social and economic justice

Competency #6: Engages in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.

Practice Behavior/Skill Area / Evaluation / Comments
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 21. Use practice experience to inform scientific inquiry
PB 22. Use research evidence to inform practice

Competency #7: Applies knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.

Practice Behavior/Skill Area / Evaluation / Comments
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 23. Utilize the conceptual frameworks to guide the processes of assessment, intervention, and evaluation
PB 24. Critique and apply knowledge to understand person and environment.

Competency #8: Engages in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services.

Practice Behavior/Skill Area / Evaluation / Comments
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 25. Analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that enhance social well-being
PB 26. Collaborate with colleagues and clients for effective policy action

Competency #9: Responds to contexts that shape practice.

Practice Behavior/Skill Area / Evaluation / Comments
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 27. Continuously discover, appraise, and attend to changing locales, populations, scientific and technological developments, and emerging societal trends to provide relevant services
PB 28. Provide leadership in promoting sustainable changes in service delivery and practice to improve the quality of social services

Competency #10: Engages, assesses, intervenes, and evaluates with client systems.

Practice Behavior/Skill Area / Evaluation / Comments
Engagement / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 29. Substantively and affectively prepare for action with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
PB 30. Use empathy and other interpersonal skills
PB 31. Develop a mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired outcomes.
Assessment / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 32. Collect, organize, and interpret client data
PB 33. Assess client strengths and limitations
PB 34. Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives
PB 35. Select appropriate intervention strategies.
Intervention / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 36. Initiate actions to achieve organizational goals
PB 37. Implement prevention interventions that enhance client capacities
PB 38. Help clients resolve problems
PB 39. Negotiate, mediate, and advocate for clients
PB 40. Facilitate transitions and endings
Evaluation / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Supervisor/Field Instructor:
Student:
PB 41. Critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate interventions

Agency/Field Supervisor‘s Summary of Student Performance:

Student Comments on Evaluation:

Student Signature & Date:

Field Instructor/Supervisor

Signature & Date:

Faculty Signature & Date: