Welcome to Field Instructor Training Day

“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth.’” -- Dan Rather

Celebrations and Honors

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Improving the lives of vulnerable individuals, families, and communities

We transform systems that perpetuate poverty and social disadvantage by:

• Developing effective leaders committed to solving complex social problems;• Producing, disseminating and utilizing research to

improve knowledge, social policy, and social service delivery;• Preparing the next generation of culturally-competent

social worker leaders in California and beyond

Reciprocity: Mutually Beneficial Exchange

School Field Agency

Continuing Initiatives

•Diversity• Composition• Curriculum• Climate

•Practice Relevance• Competency-based Professional Education• Outcome Evaluations: “Can the student do it? How do we know?

What exactly is the ‘it’?”• Translation and Dissemination: “The gap between what we know

and what we do”

Context Changes: Threats, Opportunities• CUTS and COST SHIFTING related to Public Funding• REALIGNMENT from State County• TUITION Increases

• POPULATION AND PROBLEM Shifts• SYSTEM INTEGRATION and Reconfigurations: e.g.

mental health, health, schools• OUTCOME EVALUATION for funding sustainability• PERSISTENT GAPS AND DELAYS between WHAT WE

KNOW and WHAT WE DO• TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA

CHANGES that affect youSmall

• Field Calendar and Days for First Year MSW Students• Educational Assessments

and Interviews: Summer• Wednesdays, Thursdays• Advanced Start 3 weeks

• Technology Enhanced Communication • Forms redesigned to

maximize efficiency• Internship Placement

Tracking system (data base in the clouds)

Large→Competency-Based

Education• Clearly identified

competencies• Observation-Based

Assessment and Feedback• Competency-based

evaluation

How can we Change? • Greater communication with you and inclusion of you in

all aspects of the School

• Re-examine Student Time and Service Configurations to increase reciprocity and student competency acquisition

• Increase Practice Skill Preparation of our Students

• Increase Your Access to the Social Scientific Knowledge, Trends, and Professional Development Opportunities

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Learning in Context, Together