By Day 3Post a blog post that includes:An explanation of potential challenges for evaluation during your field education experienceAn explanation of personal action plans you might take to address evaluation in your field education experienceBy Day 4Respond to the blog post of three colleagues in one or more of the following ways:Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.Validate an idea in your colleague’s post with your own experience.Colleague 1:Amber An explanation of potential challenges for evaluation during your field education experienceMy field supervisor is very busy and juggles many roles, so I don’t get clear feedback from her directly. I do get some suggestions and tips from the other therapists that I shadow during my field study, but never fully elevated. During my site, my visit my field instructor brought up that I was late a few times, but it was never addressed directly to me, although she said it was addressed during the site visit. I get feedback about the work but from the other therapists. According to Garthwait, “you may not feel like the supervisor will devote enough time to you and your learning needs” (2017, p37). An explanation of personal action plans you might take to address evaluation in your field education experienceTo better get more feedback on my evaluations I can communicate more with my field supervisor and ask questions about my work. Although evaluation does not always feel comfortable, it can be used to improve my work and be better. I can use the feedback I do receive by “using it to identify my own professional growth needs”(2017p37).Garthwait, C. L. (2017). The social work practicum: A guide and workbook for students (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.Chapter 3, “Learning from Supervision” (pp. 28-40Colleague 2: Ashlynn There are many different forms of evaluation in social work. I have encountered many challenges throughout my Field Internship and potentially will face more. Evaluation was a huge challenge in the beginning of my field experience. My supervisor was not as open as she was in communicating with me as she is now. Conversation was awkward and appeared to be forced. However, once we began working with one another more and actively communicating things became much better. Additionally, in my field experience I have faced the challenge of clients/ families not wanting to participate in assessment nor services making evaluation almost impossible.As an action plan, I always make reasonable efforts. If a client is not ready to get help or participate in services as social worker’s we cannot make them, but only be there to encourage them when they are ready. Reasonable efforts include making follow up calls, contacting support and communicating with my supervisor. Additionally, for things that are not clear to me, or that I do not fully understand I ask questions. Having effective social work skills is very beneficial.ReferenceGarthwait, C. L. (2017). The social work practicum: A guide and workbook for students (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: PearsonColleague 3: Jacqueline An Explanation of Potential Challenges for Evaluation During Your Field Education ExperienceEvaluation occurs in different ways during the field education experience. I receive evaluation from my field instructor on my performance at the group home and therapy office. I also evaluate the clients and residents that I have interactions with while interning. Both of which can pose separate types of challenges. Receiving constructive criticism can be difficult for some. A potential challenge with receiving the evaluation and criticism from m field instructor would be my inability to do so and apply it. However it is imperative to use this feedback to critique and affirm my own practice (Garthwait, 2017, p.36). A potential challenge that I face in my evaluation of the clients and residents is that it may be difficult to measure outcomes in such a short amount of time. We only have 11 weeks in each semester to get involved in our client interventions and many of the circumstances require much longer than that. An Explanation of Personal Action Plans You Might Take to Address Evaluation in Your Field Education ExperienceI believe an action plan for the potential challenges faced with the evaluation from the instructor is to take notes on the information being shared and allow processing time. I write notes with questions to ensure I understand what is being said, and ask any questions I may have about improving my practice. As far as an action plan for the potential challenge of evaluating the clients I can conduct a pre/post survey of the clients I was able to work with to see what they have learned and taken from the class now and again at the final weeks. I can also follow up with my field instructor after I stop interning to see how influential I have been on them.Garthwait, C. L. (2017). The social work practicum: A guide and workbook for students (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.