YFHOPRA2 Teaching Practice, 2nd period Course description

The main focus is on milieu therapy work, habilitation and rehabilitation in relation to the social educator's field of work. VERPRA30 includes user-oriented supervised practical training in authentic work situations. The bachelor's thesis in VERB3900 is written on the basis of experience gained during VERPRA30. Cooperation across enterprises, levels and sectors, quality-enhancing work processes and new thinking are important in relation to measures to be established/continued.

The students themselves choose a relevant area of specialisation offered by the university. Alternatively, the students themselves can propose relevant areas of specialisation. The students will cooperate with the practice placement and the service recipient(s) on relevant issues that they will work on independently during the course.

VERPRA30 includes eleven weeks of user-oriented practical training in authentic work situations. There is also three weeks of seminars relating to this course and course VERB3900 before the practical training period. These seminar weeks will include skills training in how to provide counselling/supervision, among other things. Management skills are another focus area. The seminar weeks will also focus on thesis outline, data collection methods, the APA style of referencing and carrying out projects in preparation for the bachelor's thesis.

The students will also participate in the interprofessional project INTER1300 wtih scope of work corresponding to 1,5 credits:  Interprofessional Cooperation about and with Children, Young People and Their Families. The theme will be how different professions can cooperate on and with children and adolescents. This includes a theoretical understanding of and research-based knowledge about interprofessional cooperation about and with children, young people and their families.

INTER1300 addresses the learning outcomes marked with an asterisk (*) and written in italics.

Learning outcomes marked with two asterisks (**) are covered during the preparation weeks before VERPRA30 and VERB3900.

Se omtale av praksis i programplanen

Se omtale av praksis i programplanen

Under supervision, the students will conduct an independent empirical research or development project, or a literature study. Students will write a master's thesis on a common topic, preferably in pairs of students. Within the chosen topic, different research questions can be developed and the topic can be elucidated from various theoretical and methodological approaches. If two students work on the master's thesis together, each student's contributions must be documented. The thesis can be written as (1) a monograph or (2) a scientific article on a specialised topic in addition to a thematic assignment.

Work on developing a project plan in preparation for the master's thesis begins and runs alongside the method courses in the spring semester, before the master's course itself starts in the autumn semester.

All other compulsory and elective courses in the programme must be passed before the student can submit their master's thesis for assessment.

Assessment of practical training:

The assessment is based on the learning outcomes for the course and the continuous assessment made of the student's achievement of the learning outcomes for the supervised practical training course. Students can only be assessed if they meet the minimum attendance requirement of 90% for the practical training.

Resits/rescheduled assessment:

Students who fail a period of practical training normally have to retake the whole practical training course, with the exception of INTER1300, provided that it has been approved.

The following applies to all practical training courses in the proramme:

The supervised practical training is assessed as passed or failed. Three elements must be passed in order for students to pass a period of practical training:

• Compulsory attendance
• Learning outcomes
• Suitability

To pass the supervised practical training, the student must have met the compulsory attendance requirement. A minimum attendance requirement of 90% applies to practical training courses. If the maximum limit for absence is exceeded, the student can make up for the practical training/teaching activities missed if practically possible. If it is not possible to compensate for the absence, the whole period of supervised practical training must be retaken. This will result in delayed progress in the programme.

The work and teaching methods used include self-study, three master's seminars with presentations, and an offer of 20 hours' supervision.

The seminars are an arena for sharing experience from all stages of the project work. Students will take part in academic discussion and practise structuring and wording academic argumentation and communicating constructive criticism. Presenting their work, giving feedback to fellow students and receiving feedback from lecturers are important aspects of the seminars. The project plan has a scope of 3,000 words (+/- 10%) and must be approved by the student's supervisor.

Se omtale av praksis i programplanen

The lecturer based on the recommendation of the practical training supervisor