HD 493 - Fieldwork: Practicum A

This is the first of two, supervised fieldwork placements.  Students will be required to do practicum A in the Pacific Oaks Children's School.  Basic contact requirement includes six hours per week of contact time in the fieldwork setting plus a three hour weekly seminar.  Students will organize their observations and practice along a continuum, from typically to atypically developing children.  Broadly speaking, this class helps students refine their skills in the following areas:

• Observation and recording.
• Understanding the context of observations e.g. nutrition, parental relationship, family culture.
• Developing working relationships with teachers, staff, and other professionals.
• Ability to implement recommendations of different analysts and integrating different philosophies of care.
• Adapting to different types of environments in order to be employable in different settings.