SOCIAL SERVICE WORKER PROGRAM: Major Reflection on Field Placement

Learning

Name: Zuha Imran Agency: Community Living Oakville: Knox Church

LEARNING ACTIVITIES DONE TO ACHIEVE GOALS:

GOAL:

Goal 1 (Direct Service)

- Writing the daily indoor/outdoor activities

on the whiteboard for special needs

- Learn to calm them down if any individual

special needs person gets upset or angry

- Effectively communicating with special

needs

Goal 2 (Knowledge-based/Indirect

ASSOCIATED LEARNING ACTIVITY:

- Discuss with supervisor or staff if any

activity plans changes

-Asking special needs to choose between

two activity options on the whiteboard

- Going on outings in the van with

employees and persons with special needs to

places like the YMCA, Burlington Park,

Niagara Falls, Safari Niagara, and baseball

games.

- When people with special needs have to go

home. Before we leave, we wait till their

parents arrive to pick them up and make sure

everyone has left.