SW 421- Mini Assignment 1
Mini-Assignment 1: Update of Internship Portfolio Sections IV and V
Due: Sunday, February 21st, 2021
I. Introduction
Portfolio Introduction
The Portfolio Introduction identifies a brief outline of what the portfolio includes and what this collection of process recordings, and evidence of your contributions to the Internship Agency Field Seminar course mean to you. Questions that the Portfolio Introductions answers are: What is contained in this Portfolio? What does this Portfolio mean to you? What do you want the reader to walk away with after reviewing this Portfolio? The introduction should be updated to reflect materials added to the portfolio since the Fall 2020 semester (see section VI for details). The Portfolio Introduction is between two paragraphs and a page in length.
Social Work Practice Question
As a reminder, the Social Work Practice Question is based on anything in regard to social work practice that you would like to know by the end of Internship Seminar on May 17th, 2021. Social Work Practice Questions are based on information that can be observed using the five sensory senses and can be answered by on-going social work experience. These questions may inquire about social work best practices, effective interventions, practice wisdom, and or frequently used social work theories in the social work professional relationship.
For this sub-section, please update the information provided in the final paper to reflect what you have learned since the final paper was submitted in Fall 2020. If you changed your Social Work Practice Question since the Fall 2020 semester, explain why you changed the Practice Question. If you changed the Social Work Practice Question because you discovered the answer to the original question, describe how you have applied what you’ve learned at the internship placement. If you are using the same Social Work Practice Question from last semester, discuss what you have discovered thus far and how you intend to move forward with learning more about the question you chose. Describe how you have applied what you have learned so far to your internship placement. Discuss how the Social Work Practice Question is related to the case studies presented for discussion board responses. The Social Work Practice Question sub-section is between one-to-three paragraphs in length.
II. Agency Internship Experience
Summary of Agency Internship Experience
The Summary of Agency Internship Experience summarizes your experiences at the Internship Agency. This section identifies the projects that you contributed to, your role on these projects, the tasks that you engaged in, and your day-to-day routine while at the agency. This section explains how you have grown in throughout your experience of being a part of the agency. Questions that the Summary of Agency Internship Experience answers are: Which agency were you placed with? What were the projects that you worked on? Were the projects you started working on in the Fall semester completed? If so, describe three key takeaways from the experience that you plan to use in graduate school. If not, discuss if the project was completed in the Spring semester and if not, why? What was your role in these projects (did your role change from the previous semester, if so, how? If not, what role would you have liked to explore or learn more about?)? What were your day-to-day tasks at the agency (did these tasks change from the previous semester, if so, how? If not, what tasks would have liked to be assigned?)? What did you find most challenging about the agency experience (did this challenge change from the previous semester? If so, how? If not, what did you do to address the challenge?)? What did you find most rewarding about the agency experience (did this change from the previous semester? If so, how? If not, describe why you found the agency experience rewarding.)? What were some of your contributions to the agency (describe how your contributions differed from last semester?)? What are two ways that the experiences at the agency have helped you to grow into your professional identity (describe how you plan to integrate your internship experience in developing your professional identity in graduate school and beyond)? What is one way that you are looking forward to continuing to grow into your professional identity? The Summary of Agency Internship Experience is between one and two pages in length.
III. APA Reference Page
SW 420 Final Paper Outline
MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE, CUNY SOCIAL WORK DEPARTMENT
**Late Assignments Are Not Accepted**
I. Introduction
Portfolio Introduction
The Portfolio Introduction briefly identifies a brief outline of what the portfolio includes and what this collection of time sheets, process recordings, evidence of your contributions to the Internship Agency mean to you. Questions that the Portfolio Introductions answers are: What is contained in this Portfolio? What does this Portfolio mean to you? What do you want the reader to walk away with after reviewing this Portfolio? The Portfolio Introduction is between two paragraphs and a page in length.
Social Work Practice Question
The Social Work Practice Question is based on anything in regard to social work practice that you would like to know by the end of Internship Seminar on May 14th, 2020. Social Work Practice Questions are based on information that can be observed using the five sensory senses and can be answered by on-going social work experience. These questions may inquire about social work best practices, effective interventions, practice wisdom, and or frequently used social work theories in the social work professional relationship. For this sub-section, please identify the Social Work Practice Question and describe what this questions means to you. Questions that this sub-section answers are: What is your Social Work Practice Question? In regard to this question, what do you want to know? How will knowing this information inform your work as a social work professional? The Social Work Practice Question sub-section is between one-to-three paragraphs in length.
II. Agency Internship Experience
Summary of Agency Internship Experience
The Summary of Agency Internship Experience summarizes your experiences at the Internship Agency for the Fall 2020 Semester. This section identifies the projects that you contributed to, your role on these projects, the tasks that you engaged in, and your day-to-day routine while at the agency. This section explains how you have grown in throughout your experience of being a part of the agency. Questions that the Summary of Agency Internship Experience answers are: Which agency were you placed with? What were the projects that you worked on? What was your role in these projects? What were your day-to-day tasks at the agency? What did you find most challenging about the agency experience? What did you find most rewarding about the agency experience? What were some of your contributions to the agency? What are two ways that the experiences at the agency have helped you to grow into your professional identity? What is one way that you are looking forward to continuing to grow into your professional identity in the Spring 2021 Semester? The Summary of Agency Internship Experience is between one and two pages in length.
III. Three (3) Social Work Courses
Select three (3) social work courses that you have successfully completed at Medgar Evers College. Next, explain how information presented in each course supported you to navigate and make sense of the experience shared in section I. For example, if using SW 304 Human Behavior in the Social Environment, maybe the human behavior theories learned in this course helped you to identify the best and most effective way to work with a client or colleague at the agency. If so, what might these theories have been? How did you apply them? If using SW 330 Social Work Methods: Social Work Practice with Groups, maybe the techniques learned in this course help you to know how to facilitate groups at your agency. If so, what might these techniques have been?
IV. Self-Care Playlist
Create a self-care playlist by putting 4 songs together that have enabled you to heal and be-well during this semester. Share this list of songs in numbered list-form with song title and the name of the artist who sings this son. Remember to cite these songs APA style in the reference page.
b. Choose two songs from this playlist. Using paragraph form, describe your reasons for choosing each song for this list. For instance, what do these songs remind you of, to do, or to keep in mind? How does the flow and melody of the song inspire you to feel?
V. Hindsight is 20/20
Hindsight is 20/20 is a popular saying that means that “[c]hoices that seemed difficult in the past now seem clear after the person knows what happened as a result of those choices” (Writing Explained, 2018). Knowing what you know now after having completed your first semester at your social work internship, describe what you may be looking forward to doing differently for the second and final semester at your internship? In other words, what are two (2) lessons or best practices that you look forward to applying at the agency next semester?
VI. Self-Assessment
Identify a social work skill that you seek to embody. Using a scale of 1-5, 1= Poor Performance and 5= Exceeds Course Standards, rate how you have applied this skill at your agency. Explain how come you have rated your performance of this skill this way. Provide at least two internship-project-related examples of how you successfully or unsuccessfully applied this skill.
VII. Reference Page (APA Style)
Cited Source:
Writing Explained. (2018). What does Hindsight is 2020 mean? Retrieved from
