Learning Plan and Progress Review
Students' learning and assessment of learning is guided through the Learning Plan and Progress Review.
Learning Plan
The Learning Plan outlines student learning goals and objectives for field education. Instructions on drafting the Learning Plan will be given to students by their Faculty Field Liaisons. The field instructor and student will collaboratively develop the plan during the first three to five weeks of field practicum and sign it (specific deadlines will be provided by the student’s FFL.) The Learning Plan is intended to be a working document. Initial goals and objectives may be modified or changed over the period of the practicum as student’s learning needs become clearer and learning tasks change or new ones become available. These activities may include:
- shadowing Field Instructors and other professionals as they engage with service users
- going to meetings
- participating in events
- reviewing agency documents
- filling out agency documents
- meeting with service users
- other related tasks associated with the work done in each practicum.
Typically, as students’ skills and confidence develop, they will be become responsible for increasingly difficult tasks as well as be more active in terms of negotiating with Field Instructors about what and how they need to learn.
Progress Review
Assessment of students in field practicum occurs on an ongoing basis. This process encourages an opportunity to highlight student strengths, ongoing learning needs and opportunities. Students are formally assessed at the mid-point and end of the field practicum. Students and Field Instructors are to fill out the Progress Review individually, and then meet in real time, either in person or virtually, to discuss the assessment. When they meet, they discuss the practicum and review the student’s Field Education Goals and Objectives as articulated in the Field Agreement. The Faculty Field Liaison does not attend the mid-term assessment meeting but does review, approve (or not), and sign the mid-term assessment form.