Eduardo Marques Instituto Superior Miguel Torga Supervision Models and Fieldwork Placements in Social Work Education in Europe. Department of Social Work.

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Instituto Superior Miguel Torga

Supervision Models and Fieldwork Placements in Social Work Education in Europe.Department of Social Work TEI – Athens 13/15 December 2007

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A little about our history

1937 is created in Coimbra the Social Normal School – “The Health“;

1965 - change the denomination of the Social Normal School - "the Health" for Institute of Social Work of Coimbra.

1969 - alteration of the denomination to Social Work University College of Coimbra.

1998 - change of the denomination to Miguel

Torga University College.

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Fieldwork Placements Policies

The training period is supervised by Social Workers:

a - the supervisor, lecture of ISMT; b – the tutor, the person who orientates in the

training place. The fieldwork training project will be developed

by the trainee and it is the result of the negotiation between supervisor, tutor and the trainee.

The fieldwork training project is evaluated by a jury that integrates the intervening ones of this process.

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Fieldwork Placements Policies

Thematic areas and Main Places of training:

a - Work, Job and Professional Training; b – Justice and Social insertion; c – Health; d - Social security; e – Municipalities and similar organizations; F - Education

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Organization of Fieldwork Placements

Field Work Practice I (6 semester);270 (p) + 140 (ex) = 410 hours

The Seminar;22.30 (to) +30 (s) = 52.30 hours

Total = 17,5 ECTS (462.30 hours);

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Organization of Fieldwork Placements

Field Work Practice II (7 semester);420 (p) + 180 (ex) = 600 hours

The Seminar;22.30 (to) +30 (s) = 52.30 hours

Total = 24,5 ECTS (652.30 hours);

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Organization of Fieldwork Placements

Field Work Practice I (6 semester);The period of Fieldwork placement training is developed in the partner

institution space and it is an important pedagogical moment of training and it helps on the deepening of the theory-practical relation and it´s confrontation with social reality and professional practice. It is strongly linked with a research experience, it is related with the pré-professional activities of social workers and provide extension services to the community.

The seminar I (6 semester);The Supervision of Fieldwork placement makes the pedagogical and

scientific accompaniment of the trainee, proceeding to the theoretical-methodological analysis and ethics of the practical work, its critical reflection and respective elaboration of Project (these) of training period.

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Organization of Fieldwork Placements

Field Work Practice II (7 semester);The fieldwork placement gives continuity to the fieldwork placement I,

in the same institutional space. The trainee search to implement his Training Project and must develop a critical reflection on Social Work. The final Work of is BA degree is evaluated by a jury that integrate the intervening ones of this process.

The seminar II (7 semester);The Seminar consists in a privileged space of accompaniment the

fieldwork placement process of training on the supervision level and also on the level of the elaboration of the student final these. This integrates a systematization of reflections and knowledge's acquired from the experience, as parameters theoretician-methodological of the educational project of ISMT defined for professional exercise.

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About the Evaluation Model

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About the Evaluation Model

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Dates for the Evaluation Process

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New educative ways of using information and communication technologies.

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New educative ways of using information and communication technologies.

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