Using Artificial Intelligence in Social Work Field Education
Laurel I Hitchcock
by Laurel Hitchcock
3M ago
Editor’s Note: Jacqueline Jones is the MSW Field Coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and one of my colleagues in the UAB Department of Social Work. She has over six years of experience supervising students during field placements and eight years of social work practice experience. In this blog post, she shares how she uses artificial intelligence tools to improve her teaching and save time.  I think, in many ways, social workers shy away from technology and, seemingly, advanced computer systems. In an ever-evolving world where social media, email, and searching the Worl ..read more
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The Role of the Interpretation Guide in the Self-Study: CSWE Accreditation
Laurel I Hitchcock
by Laurel Hitchcock
5M ago
Editor’s note: Melissa Freedman, MSW, is a social work educator and consultant specializing in leadership, supervision, administration, and quality management and assurance. In this blog post, she shares an overview of the interpretation guide to write a self-study for social work accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). I found using CSWE’s interpretation guide both useful and overwhelming at the same time, and the tips that Melissa shares in this post helped break down the guide for me. She can be reached via email at freedman121@comcast.net. As a social work program na ..read more
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Five Steps to Planning your Social Work Program’s Self-Study: CSWE Accreditation
Laurel I Hitchcock
by Laurel Hitchcock
9M ago
Editor’s note: Melissa Freedman, MSW, is a social work educator and consultant specializing in leadership, supervision, administration, and quality management and assurance. In this blog post, she shares guidance for social work educators about how to start planning for the important task of reaffirmation and the initial process of accreditation with the Council on Social Work Education. I can also envision social work faculty and staff applying these guidelines to the adoption of new accreditation standards and policies and sharing them with institutional leadership when asking for support a ..read more
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Key Components for Effective Social Work Assignments
Teaching & Learning in Social Work
by Laurel Hitchcock
1y ago
Photo by Arisa Chattasa on Unsplash As social work educators, we create assignments to give our students opportunities to learn about the profession and develop competencies needed for social practice. Assignments also offer a way to assess if students are growing in their understanding of how to be professional social workers. Assignments can range from reading a chapter in the course textbook to a 20-page research paper and more. I have shared many assignments on this blog that I have used in various classes. What I have learned over the years is that it takes effort and structure to create ..read more
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Tips for the new Social Work Adjunct Instructor
Laurel I Hitchcock
by Laurel Hitchcock
1y ago
In my role as the Director of our undergraduate social work program this summer, I have been onboarding several new adjunct instructors to our Department. It is a fun process as new adjuncts bring new ideas and energy to the role, and I have been reminded of my early days in social work education as an adjunct instructor. I taught statistics to social work students for four years while working on my Ph.D. I often think back to that experience as my boot camp for my career as an academic in social work education. One of my teaching mantras is “if I can teach stats, I can teach anything.” If yo ..read more
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Technology Disruption Readiness Plan: A Best Practice for the Social Work Classroom
Teaching & Learning in Social Work
by Laurel Hitchcock
2y ago
In social work education, one lesson we can take away from the COVID pandemic has brought many lessons to social work education is to be ready when a crisis or disruption requires an instructor and students to quickly shift an entire course, a class session, or even an assignment. In today’s world, this typically means understanding when and how to adapt our learning environments to incorporate or adjust for digital technologies, both hardware (i.e., portable devices, laptops, WiFi access) and software (i.e., learning management systems). A social work educator can prepare for future disruptio ..read more
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The Power of Words: Using Poetic Analysis in a Social Work Research Course
Laurel I Hitchcock
by Laurel Hitchcock
2y ago
Editor’s Note:  This blog post was written by Amber Sutton, LICSW, ABD, a social work instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in collaboration with students from her undergraduate social work research course during the Spring 2022 semester.   The students are (in alphabetical order): Iva Burdette, Jackie Chavez-Martinez, Jennifer Dussich, Courtney Kramer-Williams, Katie Kramer, Hannah Marsh, Rachel Shunnarah, Natalie Trammell, Ahmia Vain, and Ella Wolfe.  In this blog post, Amber and the students share how they used poetic analysis to answer some age-old ques ..read more
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Two Ways to Decolonize a Social Work Research Course
Teaching & Learning in Social Work
by Laurel Hitchcock
2y ago
Editor’s Note: Dr. Amy Werman, DSW, LCSW,  is a lecturer at the Columbia School of Social Work, with over 20 years of teaching experience in social work education. In this blog post, she shares two practical suggestions for social work research courses, focusing on ways to decolonize traditional content and integrate an anti-racist/anti-oppressive approach to teaching about research methodology. For the past 20 years, I have been educating MSW students. The first course I ever taught was Research Methods, an “interesting” initiation into the field of teaching considering that most studen ..read more
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Poverty Simulations in Social Work Education
Laurel I Hitchcock
by Laurel Hitchcock
2y ago
As many of you may already know, simulations are increasingly being incorporated into social work education in various ways (online, in-person, virtual or augmented reality, large-scale, standardized patient, OSCE (Objective structured clinical exams), formative assessment, etc.). In addition, simulations often cover a range of topics such as child welfare home visits, assessment skills, and interprofessional teamwork. The goal of a simulation is to offer students an alternative or mock situation of a real one to meet specific learning outcomes. Reasons for using simulations range from assessi ..read more
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Re-Capping Teaching & Learning in SWK for 2021
Laurel I Hitchcock
by Laurel Hitchcock
2y ago
One of my academic favorites is Dr. Katie Linder who produces a podcast called You’ve Got This, where she offers advice and examples for other academics as they navigate the world of higher education. Frequently, Katie talks about goal setting and how she works to accomplish her own goals. As I listened to her end-of-the-year podcast about her 2021 goals, all I could think about was my blog. You see, every year, I set goals for this blog, and rarely do I accomplish these goals. Here is some of the evidence: Review of Teaching & Learning in Social Work for 2019 Review of Teaching & Lea ..read more
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