Intensive Fieldwork Orientation Program

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Intensive Fieldwork Orientation Program

• for First Placement Students
• City University of Hong Kong

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Documents

• Fieldwork Handbook,
• Field Instruction Manual,
• First Level Integration of Theory with Practice
  in Fieldwork, and
• Documenting Practice in Fieldwork Examples,
  Illustrations and Feedback.

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Recommended readings for specific service setting.

• Family Service Centre
• Family Activities and Resource Centre Family
  Life Education
• CY Centre
• Integrated Team
• Outreaching and Offenders

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Recommended readings for specific service setting

• School Social Work
• LINK Project
• Elderly
• Community Settings
• Rehabilitation Services
• Medical Settings

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Recommended Quality Assurance Level for Fieldwork
Preparation

• 80 on a true-and-false test on students
  knowledge and understanding on
• Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance,
• Code of Ethics for Social Workers,
• Expectations of the Department,
• The uniqueness of fieldwork learning and
  teaching, and
• Integration of knowledge and practice.

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Individual Report on the Study of Social Work
Aptitude

• Students are encouraged to share this report with
  instructor.
• Instructors may take the initiative to ask their
  students to share with them.

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Use of this report for

• Identifying individual learning needs
• Maximising learning opportunities available
• Maximising students strengths
• Designing an appropriate teaching and learning
  program

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Further References

• The report also provides the mean of each and
  every sub-scale of all the measurement scales for
  this class and
• The mean of some scales of the 1994 class of
  social work students who graduated in 1997
• Some of the references have been reserved in our
  librarys Teachers Collection under the name
  Lee, T.Y.

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Learning Style (Reay 1994)

• Activist
• Reflector
• Theorist
• Pragmatist

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Learning Style (Kolb, 1976 Tsang, 1990)

• 1. Accomodator (Social Work Students learning
  style)
• 2. Diverger (Practice Teachers learning style)
• 3. Converger (Social Work Teachers learning
  style)
• 4. Assimilator

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No One Best Style for social work students!
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Be more Convergent when...

• Before interviewing clients,
• you should carefully plan your courses of action,
• select the appropriate intervention strategies

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Be more Accommodative when..

• You are interviewing clients,
• you should be involved,
• you should concentrate on your practice,
• be sensitive to your own feelings and those of
  the clients.

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Be more Divergent when...

• you write up your recording,
• listen to or watch the tape or video record of
  your practice,
• should try to recapture the essential features of
  your experiences,
• looking at it from various perspectives,
• detecting patterns and relationships to make
  sense of that experience.

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Be more Assimilative when...

• you try to apply theory.
• You should use your inductive reasoning to
  formulate
• concepts,
• generalizations,
• hypotheses or even
• theories, and,
• compare them with those found in existing
  literature.

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The End