FEP Curriculum

The goal of the Field Experience Program (FEP) is to support you as you engage in meaningful professional work while also advancing your development as a reflective practitioner throughout your FEP experience and beyond. The roadmap for accomplishing this goal is your self-constructed Learning Agreement. This document, which is developed by you in collaboration with your Teaching Fellow, details your individualized final assignment and is approved by your Faculty Supervisor. The final assignment is an opportunity for you, having worked both at a self-selected internship site and also within your seminar community, to consider what you have learned by integrating experience and reflection in a culminating piece of work.

In order to accomplish this goal, the FEP course (S-997) offers 4 accompanying seminars:

• Seminar One establishes the course's foundational core in reflective practice.  Teaching fellows provide you with a basic conceptual orientation and stimulate your personal insights regarding the value and skills involved in becoming research based/reflective practitioners. In addition, you will have the opportunity to get to know others in the seminar group and develop ways to support each other through the semester.
• Seminar Two assists you in establishing solid working relationships with your site supervisor.  This seminar, which includes site supervisors, students, teaching fellows and the program director, has been designed to: 1. provide a foundational grounding in mentoring functions; 2. support pairs’ development by focusing on expectation setting; 3. anticipate challenges in scheduling and work completion; 4. facilitate productive discussions between above mentioned team members; 5. solidify the Learning Agreement; and 6. encourage networking among all participants.
• Seminar Three advances and concretizes your thinking about the final assignments by focusing on the development of your thinking.  What challenges are you facing?  How can deeper levels of reflection enhance your work?  How can you optimize this internship experience?  Teaching fellows craft exercises such as case discussion or concept mapping to stimulate insight and discussion.
• Seminar Four is a small student practitioner conference.  It is an opportunity for you to interact, discuss, and display your thinking and developing insights into your work.  You can explore how being a reflective practitioner has impacted your learning through the development of a reflective journal or through interesting connections between theory/coursework/practice.  This seminar is scheduled to stimulate interesting discussion of your topic in anticipation of the final assignment.   It is open to the public.  Site and faculty supervisors are invited to attend.