Why Field Experience is Vital to the Professional Social Work Experience Field experience is vital to the professional social work experience for numerous reasons ranging all the way from teaching future social workers how to manage their time through showing what exactly social works do. First‚ Field Experience helps BSW students to understand who exactly social workers are. Next‚ Field Experience helps future social workers to understand the many different roles that social workers fill. Finally
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Karishma Jain Professor Brunner English 101 9/12/12 Assignment #1 My Second First Practice Soaking in the warmth of the sun‚ the smell of freshly mowed grass‚ the serene rhythm of my cleats against the track‚ I knew I was back to my home away from home. The Lacrosse field has always been my oasis for many reasons; ones that my parents do not understand‚ but other collegial athletes or sports enthusiasts would. It is where I get to release my stress through exercise‚ and where I get to play
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Canada is the poster child of immigration. In my experience a large number of Canadians are ignorant and uninformed about immigration and therefore immigrants. In my first months in Canada was not prepared to deal with the plights of nuanced racism‚ materialism and eventual assimilation often experienced by immigrant youth. With adequate institutions and support this concerning issue could be mended but seems to go largely ignored and unnoticed by the general public. I remember when my family
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occurred when I was a sophomore. It was English 2‚ and we had just read the book‚ “Fahrenheit 451”. We were assigned to write a creative writing essay creating a different ending to the book from another character’s perspective. This essay was important to me because when I got done‚ I was really proud of myself. I actually had a lot of fun writing that essay‚ and I thought it had turned out really well. It was that paper that made me realize that I actually enjoyed creative writing. Another important
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identify with is Cambodian-American due to my upbringing in a Cambodian community. I am also a huge fan of Korean pop music‚ better known as K-pop‚ which involves me in a whole new culture that I did not think I was part of. The following two experiences will show what makes me a multicultural individual by my identification with two different cultures and how I could connect with students of different cultures and backgrounds. In 1994 on November 9th I was born to a refugee single mother. I have
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Learning through reflection Reflection is an active process whereby the professional can gain an understanding of how historical‚ social‚ cultural and personal experiences have contributed to professional knowledge and practice (Wilkinson‚ 1996). Duffy (2007) believes that reflective practice is an active deliberate process of critically examining practice where an individual is challenged and enabled to undertake the process of self-enquiry to empower the practitioner to realize desirable
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remember the first suggestion was made by Edwin‚ he offered to read the material and do an outline‚ and the plan was that using his outline I would put together the PowerPoint and Casey would write the essay. Casey immediately said something like that’s perfect‚ I also agreed. Thinking back about this experience makes me realize that we were definitely guilty of groupthink. I myself felt pressured to agree with the rest of the group just because two of the members already had the same opinion‚ and
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Reflection is an active process that helps health care professional gain a deeper understanding of their experiences (Varghese‚ 2010). This essay will discuss about the academic achievements which were obtained during the last semester through a reflective model. The reflective model I have chosen is Gibbs’s model (1988). Gibb’s model of reflection incorporated the following: description‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ analysis‚ a conclusion and an action plan (Brooker et al‚ 2003). The first stage of Gibbs’s
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Growing up I had to struggle with my learning disabilities add to that having to learn a whole new language it made my life a challenge that I had to overcome ‚ as well as learning from the many failures that came with it. Imagine sitting in a classroom listening to a teacher talk about verbs‚ pronouns and action verbs‚ but the only thing you know it that you don’t seem to understand a word that she is saying. Being a Hispanic female means that the first language I learned was spanish‚ my family
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development‚ by providing critical analysis of its contents (McMullen‚ et. al.‚ 2003). A portfolio captures learning from experience‚ enables to measure learning‚ acts as a tool for reflective thinking‚ illustrates critical analytical skills and evidence of self-directed learning and provides a collection of detailed evidence of a person ’s competence (Gray‚ et. al.‚ 2004). For Dewey‚ reflective thinking consisted of two parts: a state of doubt and a search to resolve that doubt. Thus‚ constructing
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