Newly qualified social workers, supervision and child protection
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): educational interventions
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Distributed leadership in early years and childcare
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Social work student placements and employability
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Seeking workshop contributions
You are invited to provide a workshop contribution to a national conference to share and promote best practice in service user and carer involvement in professional education.
The conference will be held on 26 April 2017 at the University of Stirling and bring together service users and carers, students, educators, professionals and policy-makers. It will be relevant to social work, health, education and other areas of professional education, at qualifying and post-qualifying levels.
Workshops should:
Building your personal learning network
People who can seek new information, make sense of it, and share it with their colleagues will be an asset to any work team
Using the Sony Playstation Portable (PsP) for context-based learning
Project report
Background
KEY Community Supports operates throughout Scotland to provide support for people with disabilities. KEY had approached Iriss for suggestions about how they might deliver training and advice to its support workers at the point where support is delivered.
Fostering innovation: a shared learning experience
Building a culture of innovation where staff ideas, empowerment, and leadership drive change and improvement
Darren Levine is Manager of Innovation and Research for the Social Services Department, The Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. This role involves supporting the development, implementation, and evaluation of staff-driven innovation and research across the department's divisions - Children's Services, Family Services, Income and Employment Support, Housing Services, Long Term Care and Services for Seniors, and Business Affairs and Financial Management.
Capacity building for mobile learning
Simple and accessible tools to help you create, find and share learning materials
During 2012-13 Iriss, in partnership with the SSSC ran a series of workshops for people involved in designing or delivering learning.
Why?
The Knowledge Management Strategy for the social services recognises that web-based tools - social bookmarking, Twitter, newsfeeds, Google search and Facebook - are now widely used for communication, collaboration and learning.