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Student/Field Supervisors Guidelines: Preparing for Supervision

Students are expected to prepare appropriately for weekly supervision. This means following the guidelines and standards set forth by the field supervisor as well as those set by the School.  As the student progresses through the field placement, it is expected that he/she will take on increasing responsibility for the content of the supervisory sessions by creating a written agenda for each session.  Created by the School’s Field Advisory Board, the following guidelines for writing an agenda offer a wholistic approach to assist the student with integration of classroom knowledge and practice application and to focus on processing the field experience.  The student and field supervisor should discuss ways to operationalize these guidelines.  The student’s supervisory agenda should include these five sections:

  1. Items related to past social work, or related, coursework and work experiences
  2. Items related to current coursework and classroom learning (e.g., at the beginning of each semester, bring copies of course syllabi to the field supervisor)
  3. Items related to mid-semester or final evaluation instruments
  4. Items related to field placement (both task- and process-focused)
  5. Additional Items