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MCEP214
Practicum II

MQF Level: 7

ECTS Value: 8 ECTS

Contact Hours: 0

Supervised Placement and Practice Hours: 168

Self Study Hours: 0

Assessment Hours: 32

 

Overall Objectives and Outcomes

The practicum is intended for the course participants to apply and practice the skills and knowledge they are learning throughout the course. In addition they have to integrate and consolidate all they have learnt in the first practicum. The field supervisor will allot clients to the course participants according to guidance by the practicum coordinators taking into consideration the current procedures of the service. The field supervisor must ensure that the learners practice the skills learnt during the placement.

By the end of this module, the learner will be able to:

Competences

  1. Conduct assessments of learners exhibiting manifestations of ADHD and ASD;
  2. Carry out interpretation of the findings resulting from the assessment of ASD and ADHD and identify appropriate strategies;
  3. Carry out play techniques (direct and indirect) in therapy according to the clients’ needs and the ability to interpret play sessions;
  4. Carry out psychological therapy by identifying therapeutic goals and working towards them in a time-framed therapeutic encounter;
  5. Work within and reflect upon ethical frameworks as required from the profession of psychology;
  6. Conduct assigned work ethically and responsibly.

Knowledge 

a) To formulate success criteria in one’s lesson plans;
b) To design a rubric for a lesson;
c) To use rubrics for self and peer assessment;
d) To advise the students on the next appropriate steps;
e) To provide opportunities for the learner to act on the feedback;
f) To ensure that the feedback given has been acted upon;
j) To identify how feedback is given.

Skills

a) Create a developmental progress of success criteria behaviours within a rubric;
b) Create a scaffolding progression of success criteria steps for an outcome in a lesson;
c) Use the rubric to talk about one’s progress;
d) Evaluate whether the success criteria are written in a language that is understood by learners;
e) Link the rubric with success criteria;
f) Assess what constitutes a good rubric;
g) Explain how self and peer assessment relate to success criteria and feedback;
h) Model peer and self-assessment on an unfamiliar piece of work;
i) Write good feedback statements;
j) Interpret the students’ gaps in knowledge and understand and propose the appropriate feedback.

Assessment Methods

This module will be assessed through: Assignment and Practical Task: A recorded assessment session.

Suggested Readings

Core Readings List 
 
Supplementary Reading List
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