MSW student experience

November 2014

“What is Adoption?”—A Student’s Reflection on a Small Child’s Big Question

By |2014-11-14T16:58:21-06:00November 14th, 2014|Categories: Field Notes|Tags: , , , |

MSW IV-E student Krysta Sather is Driven to Discover "ways I can be an ally for children, so they can stay safe and keep being a kid." Krysta is a first year student interning at Washburn Center for Children. Below is a reflection of their work with a young child who is in the permanency [...]

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October 2014

Reflections from the Field: Reunification & Post-Reunification Support

By |2014-10-31T11:42:28-05:00October 31st, 2014|Categories: Field Notes|Tags: , , , , |

Photo by romfarer/johanne ådnegard on flickr MSW IV-E Child Welfare students write a field journal throughout the course of their internships. In these journal entries, students reflect on their growth, experiences, strengths, challenges, difficulties, successes, supervision, learning, insights, etc. from the field placement. Below is a recent field reflection from a current IV-E student interning [...]

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Experiential Learning Day in the Native American Community

By |2016-12-01T19:32:59-06:00October 24th, 2014|Categories: Field Notes|Tags: , , , , |

On Monday, October 13th, as Minneapolis recognized Indigenous Peoples Day, all first year and advanced standing IV-E MSW students participated in the first of two Experiential Learning Days in the Native Community (ELNA). Experiential Learning is a pedagogical approach to education that moves learning from a classroom setting into the broader community for a direct [...]

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