Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2009/10 |
AS20151: Developing professional practice 2 |
 Credits: |
15 |
| Level: |
Intermediate |
| Period: | This unit is available in... |
| Academic Year at City of Bristol College | |
| Academic Year at Swindon College |
| Assessment: |
CW 70%, OR 30% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites: |
Before taking this unit you must take AS10143 |
| Description: | Aims: The aims of this unit are to ensure that students: * Fully demonstrate their skills, knowledge and understanding of youth work in practice in more than one situation; * Learn a further range of techniques and tools that are useful in their practice; * Develop a professional level of evaluation and reflection on their own practice; * Demonstrate consistent professional youth work practice in line with JNC requirements. Learning Outcomes: At the end of the unit students will have: * Demonstrate a professional level of evaluation and reflection both theoretically and practically; * Undertaken an effective piece of youth work practice in more than one situation and be able to reflect on and evaluate professionally how they have developed and changed over the previous year; * Demonstrated an ability to use a range of techniques and tools in a variety of settings; * Demonstrate how they have worked with young people to develop effective youth work; * Demonstrate consistent professional youth work practice in line with JNC requirements. Skills: During the unit students will gain the following skills: * Intellectual (taught) - evaluative and reflective techniques; * Professional (facilitated, taught and assessed) - youth work techniques and tools, working habits, effective youth work, professional behaviour; * Practical (facilitated) - use of modern technology, report writing, recording techniques, planning; * Key Skills (facilitated - assessed through other units) - the skills in this unit will assist students in the demonstration of competence in the common core modules and work undertaken in this module will be expected to contribute to their portfolios in those units. Content: The syllabus for this unit concentrates on extending the skills gained in Developing Professional Practice 1 and includes: * Evaluation of practice * Professional reflective practice * Effective professional youth work in a range of settings * Report writing * Techniques and tools * Involving young people * Youth work democracy * Self management and professional working habits * Theories of youth work and their application to practice. |