Field Education

Welcome Message from Naomi White, Field Coordinator/Assistant Professor 

The Council on Social Work Education, which accredits our BSW and MSW programs, requires that each social work student, regardless of the student’s previous life experiences, take field practicum/internship, agency-based courses. These courses, which are comprised of carefully designed field practicum/internship experiences, are intended to assist students to:

• integrate classroom knowledge and theory with actual practice experience;
• develop professional self awareness and accountability;
• hone practice skill competence; and
• exercise ethical decision making in the context of social work values and codes of conduct
• Each student has an agency-based field instructor as your practicum/internship teacher, guide, and mentor. This person is a social worker who meets our field program requirements.
• Your instructor guides your learning through a
• purposeful use of the supervisory relationship,
• development with you of professional teaching-learning objectives and activities, and
• evaluation of your utilization of social work values, knowledge, and skills in practice                                 
• Enhance your professional growth:  accountable for learning; expand self-awareness, and practice
• Did you know:   Field Education is a learning environment and we expect each student will make mistakes.  Let us also remember that there are consequences for students actions. Field is an opportunity to display professionalism, strong professional boundaries, and exhibit a teachable attitude.  We expect every field student in the School of Social Work to display professionalism, strong professional boundaries and exhibit a teachable attitude. 

Professor Naomi White 
Coordinator of Field Education 
Office: Polsky Bldg. 411K 
Phone: (330) 972-5978 
Email: naomi1@uakron.edu
 

Field Education Information

       Undergraduate Program

• BASW Field Education Structure
• BASW Field Education Information & Forms
• BASW Field Manual
  
  
  Graduate Program
• MSW Field Education Structure
• MSW Field Education Information & Forms
• MSW Field Manual
  
  
  Field Instructor Information
  
• Field Instructors

        Special Events Information