Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2008/09 |
AS30234 Developing professional practice 3 |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 1 at City of Bristol College |
| Semester: 1 at Swindon College |
| Semester: 2 at City of Bristol College |
| Semester: 2 at Swindon College |
| Assessment: OR 30%, OT 70% |
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Aims: The aims of this unit are to ensure that students:
* Continue to fully demonstrate their skills, knowledge and understanding of youth work in practice in more than one situation. * Continue to develop techniques and tools for use in their practice and seek out such techniques and tools from a wide variety of sources. * Evaluate and reflect on their practice and show how that process is reflected in their work. * Demonstrate a willingness to experiment with new methods of working and to put themselves into unfamiliar situations. Learning Outcomes: On completion of the unit students should be able to: * Show that they can use evaluation and reflection to manage and develop skills to effect their practice. * Describe and appraise effective youth work practice in a variety of settings to broaden their professional range. * Describe and compare how they have developed and discovered a range of new techniques and tools and used them in practice. * Analyze how they have worked with young people to develop effective youth work. * Explain and examine how they have fully developed effective working practices. Skills: At the end of the unit students will have gained the following skills: * Intellectual (taught) - Techniques for reflection on and evaluation of youth work. * 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 * Reflective practice * Effective youth work in a range of settings * Report writing * Techniques and tools and how to gather from a range of sources * Involving young people in all aspects of youth work * Youth work democracy in practice * Self management and professional working habits * Theories of youth work and their application to practice. |