Assessment Part two
Q1. An explanation of potential challenges for assessment during your field education experience
My field education experience was to assist in building families and supporting communities at the NECCO agency. This agency offers several services, including providing knowledge to parents and children regarding particular focus on foster care, independent living, and providing alternatives to detention. During this time, I ensured that in-depth evaluation was performed to enable for successful integration of the knowledge for various clients visiting the agency. In this regard, I met the following potential challenges during my education experience (Davis & Higgins, 2013).
Setting expectations is the first form of engagement for both children and parents during the assessment period. At this point, I had trouble expressing clear and specific expectations, given that the knowledge was new to the clients (ibid).
Moving from common knowledge to agency realities- most of the participants have never been to such agencies before. As a NECCO agent, I had trouble supporting children and parents’ out-of-supportive agency realities by starting orientation programs early enough to motivate them to discover more on the agency’s services, including specialized foster care independent living among many others.
Critiques and problems with challenging participants- understanding the client’s feelings and perceptions towards supervision and eventually creating an honest and open environment was also another greatest challenge for me during this field education experience. This challenge hindered my evaluation of the training services I was offering to the clients.
Q2. An explanation of personal action plans you might take to address assessment in your field education experience.
Based on the above challenges, there are various action plans available during the education period experience. First, at the very beginning, I would ask the clients to present a list of their expectations before the receiving services. Besides, this process needed to be a dialogue where the clients required to share their thoughts on their expectations (Tapp et al., 2012). Before receiving the agency’s services, preparing the children and parents would include a review of their assessment forms before placement by the agency.
References
Davis, S., & Higgins, K. (2013, October 29). Fielding Challenges, Finding Strengths. June 17, 2020, from https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/field-placement/Fielding_Challenges,_Finding_Strengths/
Tapp, K., Macke, C., & McLendon, T. (2012). The Field Educator: A Scholarly Journal from the Simmons College School of Social Work. June 17, 2020, from https://fieldeducator.simmons.edu/article/assessing-student-performance-in-field-education/