BSVCBP Crossing Borders - practical placement

Contents and structure

The main focus is the system level and the profession of the social worker and social educator. Students' activities in practice should include cooperation with users, environment and activity work, and work at the system and individual level, with a particular look at the significance constraints on the system level for users and service practitioners' manoeuvre. In consultation with the supervisor and tutor, students will design focus and learning objectives for the internship. During practice, each student will also initiate and participate in inter-professional collaboration related to the complex needs of a patient or user.

Through practical work and interprofessional and interagency collaboration, students are challenged to understand their roles and promote values in individual relationships and at the organisational level. Furthermore, students are faced with contributing to services promoting self-determination and user participation at individual, group, and community levels.

Admission is limited.

Contents

Through one practice plan, students will see how they justify, plan and assess their practices with specific focus and goals. A counselling course with an accompanying curriculum is integrated into the practice program, and students will gain experience in the practical training of technical guidance and supervision of employees.

Compulsory Requirement

Drawing from different exercises and assignments throughout the course, students will focus on enhancing their cultural awareness and applying theories to personal experiences with linguistic diversity and cultural otherness.

Practice placement

The tutor will continuously evaluate the student's work. The facilitator from the school and the tutor will conduct at least one meeting with the student where the primary focus is the assessment of student performance and progress. It is a mandatory presence both in practice and in all meetings related to practice that the student cannot have more absences than 10% for any reason. Suppose there is reasonable doubt that the practice will be passed. In that case, the student will receive written notification by § 5 of the Department's regulations on academic content and assessment schemes for social educators. The message must be sent to the student no later than three weeks before completing the internship.

Learning Outcome

A student who has completed the course should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge The student...

• can describe their practice in ways that demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of their own professional role and training's challenges and responsibilities in the welfare system
• is familiar with the basic features and the importance of inter-professional learning and interaction skills
• has knowledge of the process of professional supervision

Skills The student...

• can analyze specific issues affecting patients and users in ways that connect the user level, environmental and labour activity level, and system level
• can contribute to change and development of the organization and duties of the internship from such analysis
• can initiate inter-professional collaboration that includes patients or users as equal partners at least once during the internship. Exercise supervision and stimulate professional reflection together with other service providers

General competence The student...

• can act as user-oriented and reflective professionals in partnership with people with physical, psychological and/or social disabilities
• can identify and recognize collaborative professions skills assessment and grounds, and convey their expertise and assessment basis to meet with them

Entry requirements

Non spesific

Teaching methods

Organization and learning

Practical placement includes participation in practice preparation, writing and reflection work, active participation in the training site activities, examination of the deposited counselling with the tutor, independent action and testing of your focus and goal in practice schedules, academic presentations and professional supervision of staff at the practice site, and participation and reflection work on collections during the placement period.

Compulsory learning activities

1. Prepare and conduct a one-hour lecture (in a group) on a relevant topic based on fieldwork based on pre-described assessment criteria for fellow students at home or the practical placement or for fellow Norwegian students.
2. Prepare and lead an intercultural group (workshops). The focus of the discussion should be relevant to UN Human Rights and the placement.

Assessment

Assessment

Practical placement

Grading system

Rating practical placement is assessed as passed/failed based on assessment criteria described in the practical placement manual.

New practical placement

If the student fails the placement, the student gets a new placement next scheduled term.

Examination support material

None

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