Discipline of Social Work
SIGNIFICANT LEARNING INCIDENT REPORT – ASSIGNMENT PLANNING TEMPLATEHow to use this template
Students can use this template to assist in planning their Significant Learning Incident assignment. Choose a significant incident and write notes or dot-points in the following boxes to answer key questions about the incident. Bringing together information from your notes, covering the questions outlined below, write your Significant Learning Incident assignment from your plan.
What is a significantlearning incident?
A significantlearning incident is one that you believe or feel was crucial to your learning or practice as a human service professional or had a significant effect on it. It is an incident that is important to your development as a student on placement. It may mark a turning point, or, in a particular way, a change in your thinking or acting.
A significant learning incident may be an incident:
- Which went unusually well
- Which did not happen as planned
- Which was ordinary and typical
- Which captured the essential nature of human services
- Which was particularly demanding
- Which raised conflicts or doubts
- Which caused you to reflect on the nature of the helping professions or your role as a human service professional
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Describe the context of the incident (e.g. how far into the placement it happened, your role in the agency at the time, the type of agency).Describe the incident itself in detail.
Why was the incident significant to you?
What were you thinking as it was taking place?
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What were you feeling as it was taking place?What did you find most demanding about the situation?
What did you learn about:
- yourself as a professional – values, roles, skills, ethics, code of conduct?
- theory?
- practice and skills?
- yourself as a professional?
- yourself as a learner?
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What were some of your theoretical assumptions (eg: about human services, causes of human behaviour, styles of intervention) which reflected in this incident? Make sure you use social work practice evidence (research informed) and theoretical rigour.How has your learning from this incident changed your thinking and your practice?
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