Advanced School Social Work

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Apply the NASW Code of Ethics, relevant local, state and federal laws and regulations, and models of ethical decision making to multiculturally sensitive school social work practice.
• Understand the history of school social work, its mission, and the roles and responsibilities of the profession.
• Understand and identify forms and mechanisms of oppression, discrimination, and dynamics of power, privilege and social injustice that exist in the school system.
• Apply their understanding of social justice and utilize strategies to advocate for human rights within the school system.
• Identify policies at the local, state, or federal level that impact service delivery within school social work practice.
• Use critical thinking to analyze how policies at the local, state, or federal level positively or negatively impact service delivery of school social work practice.
• Use effective communication, relationship-building inter-professional collaboration and culturally responsive methods to facilitate engagement with students, families and school communities.
• Use effective engagement strategies including empathy, reflective and active listening, advocacy and interpersonal skills to develop and maintain a culturally responsive relationship with students, families, school staff and school communities.
• Identify available culturally appropriate standardized assessments or diagnostic instruments that can be utilized with students, families, or school communities during the assessment process.
• Collect, synthesize and organize complex assessment data to identify a school-wide area of need.
• Be knowledgeable about culturally responsive and evidenced-informed interventions that can be utilized to achieve the goals of students, groups, families, and school communities.
• Critically evaluate and select culturally responsive and evidence-based interventions that could be utilized with students, groups, families and school communities.
• Critically analyze data and evaluate what helps or hinders implementation of interventions in a school setting.
• Identify and design culturally responsive evaluation methods to evaluate school social practice.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Module Learning Activities	20%
Written & Video Discussion Boards	20%
Quizzes	20%
Educational Legislation/Policy Analysis Report	20%
School-Wide Intervention Plan	20%

Grading Scale Followed in All JMSW Courses:

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
93-100%	A
90-92%	A-
87-89%	B+
83-86%	B*
80-82%	B-
76-79%	C+
70-75%	C
Below 70%	F

School Social Work licensure students must earn an overall B or higher to be eligible for the licensure through the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

Attendance/Participation:

This course is online, asynchronous and participation is measured through weekly module assignments.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Massat, C.R., Kelly, M.S., Constable, R. (2022). School Social Work Practice Policy, and Research (9th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.