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SCHOOL PLACEMENT AND REFLECTIVE PRACTICE

Module code: EDG523
Credits: 7.5
Semester: 1 and 2
Quota: 20
Department: EDUCATION
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	Overview
	School Guidance and Counselling placement practice in schools includes: One-to-one Career Counselling and Personal Counselling (in partnership with a professional School Guidance Counsellor); Group work in personal/social, educational and career development; Pastoral Care/Guidance classes. To support student guidance counsellors in relation to placement practice, small supervision groups are offered throughout the year. These aim both to mirror and to prepare for the practice of professional supervision in which guidance counsellors engage. The reflective practice focuses on the central importance of accurate self-awareness as a condition for effective counselling. It seeks to encourage student guidance counsellors to become reflective practitioners. It highlights four areas of development: self-knowledge, interaction with others; professional knowledge; coping styles. Journalling is an ongoing, distinct feature of this module.

Overview

School Guidance and Counselling placement practice in schools includes: One-to-one Career Counselling and Personal Counselling (in partnership with a professional School Guidance Counsellor); Group work in personal/social, educational and career development; Pastoral Care/Guidance classes. To support student guidance counsellors in relation to placement practice, small supervision groups are offered throughout the year. These aim both to mirror and to prepare for the practice of professional supervision in which guidance counsellors engage.

The reflective practice focuses on the central importance of accurate self-awareness as a condition for effective counselling. It seeks to encourage student guidance counsellors to become reflective practitioners. It highlights four areas of development: self-knowledge, interaction with others; professional knowledge; coping styles. Journalling is an ongoing, distinct feature of this module.

	Learning Outcomes
	On successful completion of the module, students should be able to: Demonstrate a working knowledge of how one-to-one career, personal and educational interviews are carried out in a school context. Indicate an ability to facilitate group work in personal, educational and career development. Administer psychometric tests and give feedback to students. Manifest accomplished administrative skills pertaining to their role as a School Guidance Counsellor. Reflect critically on her/his practice. Demonstrate an openness to others� perceptions of self. Show that an integration of new understandings and awareness of self and others has been facilitated. Appreciate how the personal narrative and the institutional/cultural/social story interweave. Demonstrate an openness to constructive criticism and a willingness to take appropriate action.

Learning Outcomes

Teaching & Learning methods

Assessment

	Autumn Supplementals/Resits
	Are supplemental/resit registrations permitted? Yes Is Supplemental Continuous Assessment registration permitted? No Is Supplemental Continuous Assessment capped? No

	Pre-Requisites
	None

	Co-Requisites
	None

	Professional Associations/Accreditation information
	This module aims to provide the students with the skills to critically engage in the practice of guidance and counselling in a school setting and to facilitate the integration of new knowledge and of how personal and institutional stories interweave.

	Timetable
	This timetable is not currently available, please contact the Education Department.

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SCHOOL PLACEMENT AND REFLECTIVE PRACTICE