The Practice Educator's Handbook

Sarah has 15 years experience as a practice teacher both on and off site; eight years experience of developing, leading and delivering Bournemouth University Practice Education Programmes including; the Practice Teaching Programme, Enabling Work Based Learning (as a stand alone programme and within Specialist Awards), and Leading & Enabling Others (within Higher Specialist Awards). Lynne specialises in professional educational development within post-qualifying (PQ) and continuing professional development (CPD) programmes at the National Centre for Post Qualifying Social Work and Professional Practice at Bournemouth University. Here she has helped design and develop a number of units for both health and social care markets. She facilitates learning about critical thinking, professional reasoning and judgement, evidencing professional learning, leading and enabling others, and service improvement methodology. Lynne’s professional and research interests focus on the nature and development of professional reasoning and judgement, and her Professional Doctorate has helped create a unique set of assessment criteria for their development and evaluation within academic written work.

• Chapter 1: Practice educators and work-based learningPART I: Domain A: Working with others to organise an effective working environmentChapter 2: Managing learning: taking a partnership approachChapter 3: Effective planning and preparationChapter 4: Organising learning (Elements 2–7)PART II: Domain B: Teaching, facilitating and supporting learning and professional development in practiceChapter 5: Understanding learnersChapter 6: Developing learning objectivesChapter 7: Considering learning theoriesChapter 8: Designing learning opportunitiesPART III: Domain C: Managing the fair and transparent assessment of students in practiceChapter 9: Understanding the assessment of social work practiceChapter 10: The assessment processChapter 11: Assessment methods and their use in the workplacePART IV: Applying learning from Domains A–C to address challenging practice situationsChapter 12: Applying learning from Domains A–C to develop an effective supervisory relationshipChapter 13: Applying learning from Domains A–C to support the development of resilience in learnersChapter 14: Applying learning from Domains A–C when working in marginal or failing placementsPART V: Domain D: Developing knowledge and continuing performance as a practice educatorChapter 15: Continuing learning and development