Learning Materials
These learning materials have been commissioned by the Making Practice Based Learning Work project, from a range of professionals from various health and social care and educational establishments throughout the UK. The materials are available to you to use either for your own personal development or in the development and education of co-workers or students. There is no charge made for use of any of these materials. Permission is granted to reproduce the materials for personal or education use only, however sources should be acknowledged when used, as in usual academic practice. Commercial copying, hiring or lending is prohibited.
Learning and Teaching in Practice
An Introduction to Practice Education
This resource offers a general introduction to practice education - setting the scene but not focusing on any particular service environment.
Supporting Learning in Practice
Managing the Placement Learning Environment
This resource explores the pre-placement management that you need to do in order to provide an effective learning experience for your student.
Managing the Placement Learning Experience
This resources explores how you will manage the placement learning experience during the placement and the management that needs to be done once the placement has finished.
Assessment in Practice
Developing New Supervisors and Assessors of Practice Learning
A guide to preparing stff who are new to teaching and assessing practice learning.
Assessment of Students in Health and Social Care: Managing Failing Students in Practice
This resource focuses specifically on managing underperforming students in practice and is designed for an inter-professional audience.
Assessing Student Performance in Work-based Learning
This resource is a document for work-based supervisors that looks at the nature of assessing students in the workplace.
Working with Others in the Work Place
This resource is a document for work-based supervisors exploring ways work-based supervisors can help students work with others whilst learning in the workplace.
Reflection in Practice
Reflection on Practice
This resource seeks to inform and prepare practice educators for their roles as reflective practitioners and identifies strategies and guidelines for facilitating students/learners to reflect.
Learning and Assessing through Reflection
A practical guide that provides an introduction to learning assessing through the use of reflection.
Reflection on and in the Work Place
This resource is a document for work-based supervisors examining the role of the work-based supervisor in facilitating reflection by students who are learning in the workplace.
Generic Skills
Communication Skills Workbook
This resource consists of a workbook containing material on a range of different communication skills and various exercises to help the reader develop these skills.