Developing Creativity as a Practice Assessor / Supervisor / Practice Educator

A session uniquely designed by Siobhan Maclean, delivered on MS Teams. Suitable for Practice Educators – (PEPS / PE Assessors, PEPS / PE Mentors, PEPS / PE Coordinators, Practice Mentor Assessors) and Practice Assessors (ASYE Assessors, NQSW Assessors, PAs of NQSWs, PAs of ASYEs, Supervisors of NQSWs, Supervisors of ASYEs)

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Course Outline

Creativity is more important in social work now than it has ever been. Developing creativity skills is a vital aspect in the development of core skills like analysis and decision making. Practice educators, assessors, and everyone responsible for supervising others has an ideal opportunity to support creativity in practice and promote creative organisations. Siobhan has been developing creative ideas in practice education and social work learning and development for many years. In this session she will share lots of creative tools and techniques and discuss how creativity can be woven through supervision.  This will be a very interactive session – come prepared to try out some techniques and be creative!

Trainer Biog

Siobhan Maclean has been a social worker for over 30 years and became a practice educator in 1995. Siobhan has worked independently for a number of years. As an independent her work is varied but includes training, devising practice learning resources and consultancy work. Siobhan still very much enjoys working as a practice educator and currently works with a few students a year in an off site capacity.

In 2004 Siobhan was appointed to the position of Secretary of the International Federation of Social Workers, holding this position for eight years. She still maintains close international links and enjoys working to support practice educators in countries where social work education is in the early stages of development.

Siobhan was recently appointed a Visiting Professor at the University of Chester. She is also an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning.

Siobhan has written widely, mostly around social work theory and critical reflection. She is committed to making the knowledge base accessible to busy practitioners and set up Kirwin Maclean Associates as an independent publishing organisation based on the values and ethics of social work.

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