I thought this article was really interesting as it comes from the perspective of the supervisor about the student fieldwork experience. During my first rotation, I had the opportunity to talk with one of the speech therapists in my facility who had just finished working with her student. To put it briefly, she noted that it was a big wave of emotions; it was exhausting from an educating stand point for her, but not having her student with her the next day was a big wave of reality for getting back into her routine. -The study from the article that I posted the aim was to investigate fieldwork supervisors' perspectives regarding the benefits and challenges of providing fieldwork placements, explore the potential link between providing student placements and later workforce recruitment, and document currently employed models of fieldwork supervision. Results from 132 survey questionnaires Top answers for questions about benefits of the experience included: potential recruitment, student projects produce resources, contributes to their own development, students teach new evidence based practices, and it eases the load of their own workload. As far as challenges were concerned, the top answer/ greatest challenge was lack of resources (desk space and computers). Workload pressures/lack of time, concern for student capability, and costing staff downtime were rated as moderately to very challenging by a majority of respondents. Learning style clashes and potential difficulties with clients/consumers were rated by a majority of respondents as only slightly or moderately challenging
I thought this article was really interesting as it comes from the perspective of the supervisor about the student fieldwork experience. During my first rotation, I had the opportunity to talk with one of the speech therapists in my facility who had just finished working with her student. To put it briefly, she noted that it was a big wave of emotions; it was exhausting from an educating stand point for her, but not having her student with her the next day was a big wave of reality for getting back into her routine.
-The study from the article that I posted the aim was to investigate fieldwork supervisors' perspectives regarding the benefits and challenges of providing
fieldwork placements, explore the potential link between providing student placements and later workforce recruitment, and document currently employed models of fieldwork supervision. Results from 132 survey questionnaires Top answers for questions about benefits of the experience included: potential recruitment, student projects produce resources, contributes to their own development, students teach new evidence based practices, and it eases the load of their own workload.
As far as challenges were concerned, the top answer/ greatest challenge was lack of resources (desk space and computers). Workload pressures/lack of time, concern for student capability, and costing staff downtime were rated as moderately to very challenging by a majority of respondents. Learning style clashes and potential difficulties with clients/consumers were rated by a majority of respondents as only slightly or moderately challenging