1999T.Y.LEE1 Intensive Fieldwork Orientation Program for First Placement Students City University of Hong Kong

1999T.Y.LEE2 Documents n Fieldwork Handbook, n Field Instruction Manual, n First Level Integration of Theory with Practice in Fieldwork, and n Documenting Practice in Fieldwork: Examples, Illustrations and Feedback.

1999T.Y.LEE3 Recommended readings for specific service setting. n Family Service Centre n Family Activities and Resource Centre + Family Life Education n C&Y Centre n Integrated Team n Outreaching and Offenders

1999T.Y.LEE4 Recommended readings for specific service setting n School Social Work n LINK Project n Elderly n Community Settings n Rehabilitation Services n Medical Settings

1999T.Y.LEE5 Recommended Quality Assurance Level for Fieldwork Preparation n 80% on a true-and-false test on students’ knowledge and understanding on n Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, n Code of Ethics for Social Workers, n Expectations of the Department, n The uniqueness of fieldwork learning and teaching, and n Integration of knowledge and practice.

1999T.Y.LEE6 Individual Report on the “Study of Social Work Aptitude” n Students are encouraged to share this report with instructor. n Instructors may take the initiative to ask their students to share with them.

1999T.Y.LEE7 Use of this report for n Identifying individual learning needs n Maximising learning opportunities available n Maximising students’ strengths n Designing an appropriate teaching and learning program

1999T.Y.LEE8 Further References n The report also provides the mean of each and every sub-scale of all the measurement scales for this class and n The mean of some scales of the 1994 class of social work students who graduated in 1997 n Some of the references have been reserved in our library’s Teachers’ Collection under the name “ Lee, T.Y. ”

1999T.Y.LEE9 Learning Style (Reay 1994) n Activist n Reflector n Theorist n Pragmatist

1999T.Y.LEE10 Learning Style (Kolb, 1976; Tsang, 1990) n 1. Accomodator (Social Work Students’ learning style ) n 2. Diverger (Practice Teachers’ learning style) n 3. Converger (Social Work Teachers’ learning style) n 4. Assimilator

1999T.Y.LEE11 No One Best Style for social work students !

1999T.Y.LEE12 Be more Convergent when... n Before interviewing clients, n you should carefully plan your courses of action, n select the appropriate intervention strategies

1999T.Y.LEE13 Be more Accommodative when.. n You are interviewing clients, n you should be involved, n you should concentrate on your practice, n be sensitive to your own feelings and those of the clients.

1999T.Y.LEE14 Be more Divergent when... n you write up your recording, n listen to or watch the tape or video record of your practice, n should try to recapture the essential features of your experiences, n looking at it from various perspectives, n detecting patterns and relationships to make sense of that experience.

1999T.Y.LEE15 Be more Assimilative when... n you try to apply theory. n You should use your inductive reasoning to formulate –concepts, –generalizations, –hypotheses or even –theories, and, n compare them with those found in existing literature.

1999T.Y.LEE16 The End