Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MAY 20, 2022

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)

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 29, 2022

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.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MARCH 17, 2022

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.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

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.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

DECEMBER 30, 2021

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.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 26, 2020

In this post, I am outlining previously published content from this blog about the concept and practice of a Professional Collaboration Network (PCN), which are technology-mediated user-centered relationship constellations designed to enhance or enrich connections, knowledge, and professional opportunities. Using PCNs in social work practice started as an idea at a Think Tank hosted by the University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work in June 2019.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A few years back, my colleague, Dr. Lisa Baker at Samford University’s Department of Social Work , and I collaborated on a study about a technology-meditated assignment that we developed for a Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) course. Our goal was to breathe some new life into a stale assignment. In this post, I want to share how we approached the development, assessment, and dissemination of our study related to this tech-mediated assignment.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 6, 2021

2020 was a strange year with many firsts for me – first global pandemic, first sabbatical, first live sessions in an online course, etc. Because of all these firsts, blogging took a bit of back seat to some of my other projects and goals for the year. I had four goals for the blog over the year, and some minor successes. They were: #1 – Publish 30 posts – only published 19. #2 – Enhance the reach of the blog – there were almost 45,500 visitors from 153 different cou

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Editor’s note: This post was written by Melanie Sage from the University at Buffalo’s School of Social Work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She originally posted it on LinkedIn and is re-published here with her permission. This is a follow-up to her post – A Love Letter to Social Workers on the Front Lines of COVID-19. You can follow Melanie on Twitter at @melaniesage.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

APRIL 11, 2021

Social Work Virtual Pal (#SWVirutal Pal) is a global and virtual community of practice for the social work profession, that digitizes the practice of having a pen pal for professional learning and networking. This community focuses on connection and collaboration among social work practitioners, students, and educators to offer the profession an opportunity to harness its collective knowledge for the greater good.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

MAY 6, 2021

Agata Dera, MSW, is an Associate and Live Support Specialist with the Columbia School of Social Work’s (CSSW) Online Campus, where she works with social work faculty and students in online courses to optimize the digital learning environment. In this blog post, she shares tips and practices when connecting to the internet for online learning and engagement.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JULY 14, 2021

Editor’s Note : This blog post is adapted from the Second Edition of the Social Media Toolkit for Social Work Field Educators. There are many reasons for social workers to have a personalized social media policy – to maintain boundaries, protect privacy and confidentiality, and model professional behavior. To be clear, I am not referring to the policy that your organization or institution might have, directing the faculty, staff, and students on when it is okay to use social media, b

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JULY 30, 2021

Editor’s Note : This blog post is one of a three-part series about how to write a values-based teaching philosophy. In this blog post, we ( April Love and Laurel Hitchcock) offer a process for identifying your teaching values. The second post covers tips for writing and presenting a values-based teaching philosophy, and in the third post, we share our own values-based teaching philosophies that resulted from this process.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

AUGUST 5, 2021

This blog post is one of a three-part series about how to write a values-based teaching philosophy. In this blog post, we (April Love and Laurel Hitchcock) cover tips for writing and presenting a values-based teaching philosophy. The first post offers a process for identifying your teaching values and in the third post, we share our own values-based teaching philosophies.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Editor’s note: This post is cross-published on the Social Work Virtual Pal website. Social Work Virtual Pal is a global and virtual community of practice for the social work profession, that digitizes the practice of having a pen pal for professional learning and networking. This community focuses on connection and collaboration among social workers to offer the profession with an opportunity to harness its collective knowledge for the greater good.

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