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COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The OSU CSW leadership team has been carefully monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the impact of this international crisis on our social work students. We understand that COVID-19 has created a tremendous amount of burden on our community and has been difficult for students to navigate. We appreciate the patience and resilience we have witnessed as we coordinate field education plans. Please remember that our primary concern is the health and safety of our students. We are working with local agencies to ensure that they are following CDC safety guidelines and will work with students to make sure that proper PPE is available in their practicum setting.

To assist students in their field placements at this time, we are hosting virtual field supervision opportunities. You can find the schedule for those here. We have also gathered a virtual field activity list, which can be viewed here.

As a reminder, you can find College of Social Work COVID-19 specific information on our website. If you have immediate concerns, please email cswfield@osu.edu.

WHERE SOCIAL WORK COMES ALIVE!

At OSU College of Social Work, undergraduate and master’s students contribute almost a half million hours in service to Ohio’s underserved, disadvantaged and poor.

Field Education is where you will put your classroom learning into practice, engaging with other social workers, and developing your professional identity.

Field Education has been identified as the signature pedagogy of social work, by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Signature pedagogy is the method by which a student learns their profession; for social work, that is in field education.

But signature pedagogies also do more; they disclose important information about the personality of a professional field — its values, knowledge, and manner of thinking, almost perhaps, its total worldview.