Intensive Fieldwork Orientation
Program
for First Placement Students
City University of Hong Kong
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Documents
 Fieldwork
Handbook,
 Field Instruction Manual,
 First Level Integration of Theory with
Practice in Fieldwork, and
 Documenting Practice in Fieldwork:
Examples, Illustrations and Feedback.
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Recommended readings for
specific service setting.
Family Service Centre
 Family Activities and Resource Centre +
Family Life Education
 C&Y Centre
 Integrated Team
 Outreaching and Offenders
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Recommended readings for
specific service setting
School Social Work
 LINK Project
 Elderly
 Community Settings
 Rehabilitation Services
 Medical Settings
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Recommended Quality Assurance
Level for Fieldwork Preparation
80% on a true-and-false test on students’
knowledge and understanding on
 Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance,
 Code of Ethics for Social Workers,
 Expectations of the Department,
 The uniqueness of fieldwork learning and
teaching, and
 Integration of knowledge and practice.
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Individual Report on the “Study
of Social Work Aptitude”
Students are encouraged to share this report
with instructor.
 Instructors may take the initiative to ask
their students to share with them.
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Use of this report for
 Identifying
individual learning needs
 Maximising learning opportunities
available
 Maximising students’ strengths
 Designing an appropriate teaching and
learning program
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Further References
The report also provides the mean of each
and every sub-scale of all the measurement
scales for this class and
 The mean of some scales of the 1994 class
of social work students who graduated in
1997
 Some of the references have been reserved
in our library’s Teachers’ Collection under
the name “Lee, T.Y.”
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Learning Style (Reay 1994)
Activist
Reflector
Theorist
Pragmatist
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Learning Style (Kolb, 1976; Tsang, 1990)
 1. Accomodator (Social Work Students’
learning style)
 2.
Diverger (Practice Teachers’ learning
style)
 3.
Converger (Social Work Teachers’
learning style)
 4. Assimilator
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No One Best Style
for
social work students!
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Be more Convergent when...
Before interviewing clients,
 you should carefully plan your courses of
action,
 select the appropriate intervention strategies
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Be more Accommodative when..
You are interviewing clients,
 you should be involved,
 you should concentrate on your practice,


be sensitive to your own feelings and
those of the clients.
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Be more Divergent when...
you write up your recording,
 listen to or watch the tape or video record
of your practice,
 should try to recapture the essential features
of your experiences,

looking at it from various perspectives,
 detecting patterns and relationships to
make sense of that experience.
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Be more Assimilative when...
you try to apply theory.
 You should use your inductive reasoning to
formulate

– concepts,
– generalizations,
– hypotheses or even
– theories, and,
 compare them with those found in existing
literature.
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The End
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