1. Preparing for Placement (Compulsory):

This foundational module helps you understand the critical roles of both the placement educator and the student. You'll explore the factors that influence student success on placement and learn how to effectively prepare your site to accommodate students with diverse learning needs.

2. Planning Quality Learning Experiences:

Learn how to set up for success by planning the logistics of placement, ensuring psychological safety, and supporting students through a strong educational alliance. This module also debunks common myths about learning styles, emphasizing evidence-based approaches.

3. Evaluating Placements:

This module focuses on evaluating the learning experiences you provide, with an emphasis on self-reflection as an educator. You'll develop strategies to assess and improve the quality of the placement experience for your students.

4. Effective Feedback:

Discover the principles of effective feedback, including how to build credibility and feedback literacy. You'll learn how to encourage a growth mindset in your students through learning conversations and explore various models of feedback to enhance your educational practice.

5. Principles of Assessment:

Gain insight into key assessment principles, learning to recognize signals that may indicate a student is struggling. This module also covers how to support students at risk of failing, manage situations where students do fail, and provides an overview of discipline-specific assessment tools.

6. Facilitating Reflective Practice:

Reflective practice is crucial for lifelong learning. In this module, you'll explore models of reflective practice, learn how to facilitate practical reflection during placements, and assess your students' capacity to reflect meaningfully on their experiences.

7. Facilitating Peer Learning:

Peer learning is a powerful educational tool. This module defines peer learning, delves into the theory behind it, and provides practical strategies for implementing peer learning on placement, enhancing collaborative learning opportunities among your students.

8. Facilitating Interprofessional Learning:

Interprofessional collaboration is increasingly vital in healthcare. This module helps you identify interprofessional learning opportunities within your setting, provides resources for educators, and guides you in planning effective interprofessional learning experiences for your students.

• Demonstrate the ability to design and implement effective placement learning experiences that cater to the diverse needs of students, ensuring their success and professional growth.
• Apply key principles of feedback and assessment to support student development, identify struggling students, and implement strategies for managing students at risk of failing.
• Facilitate reflective and peer learning practices that encourage lifelong learning and collaboration among students, fostering a supportive and inclusive educational environment.
• Identify and create opportunities for interprofessional learning within the placement setting, enhancing students' readiness for collaborative practice in multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
• Critically evaluate and reflect on your own practice as a placement educator, using self-assessment tools and feedback to continually improve the quality of the learning experiences you provide.

This course will be delivered online, with a focus on self-paced learning and activities. Each module is approximately 2.5 hours.

You will have access to online content and there will be a series of six workshops throughout the course as follows:

1. Preparing for Placement (Compulsory)
2. Planning Quality Learning Experiences (combined planning and evaluating)
3. Evaluating Placements (combined planning and evaluating)
4. Effective Feedback
5. Principles of Assessment
6. Facilitating Reflective Practice
7. Facilitating Peer Learning (combined peer and IPL)
8. Facilitating Interprofessional Learning (combined peer and IPL)

This course is facilitated by a large multidisciplinary team of placement educators at the University of Sydney.

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