This week we'd like to highlight another section of the The Queensland Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Collaborative website. They have a section entitled "Students Experiencing Difficulty".
While we do hope that you would give us a shout if you find your student is struggling on placement (or even if you are wondering if you student is struggling on placement) we want to make sure that you have access to resources when the timing works for you.
The Queensland website provides some examples of common struggles, common reasons for those struggles and some strategies for managing concerns.
We would also invite you to check out some previous blog entries on working with students experiencing difficulty. You can access them by clicking "The Struggling Student" in the Tip Library on the right hand side of this page or here. Because our entries are sorted chronologically, scroll to the bottom to find the first entry.
Take care,
Lisa and Ellen
I love this one: "My thoughts are that they are a person first and a student second. I try to remember what it felt like to be a student. Although it was a long time ago, some memories (good and bad) are pretty fresh. It is not easy to be a student and encouragement is always welcome! It is intimidating for me to take a student (maybe I shouldn’t admit that?!?) because I question my knowledge base."
ReplyDeleteWe are people first…as are they…very much wanting to do a good job, and very much questioning our ability to do so with self doubt--we're all a bit fragile, really...and if we can hold that up front, then relating well in our roles can be so much more effective. We are all vulnerable as humans…we all want to do a good job, and our worth can feel as if it is on the line when we encounter each other as supervisors/student…understanding that fear makes so much difference.
Thank you Carolyn for taking the time to comment on this. Well said. L
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