What is the difference between a faculty academic advisor, a field educator, a field liaison, and a field instructor?
• The faculty academic advisor is a member of the School of Social Work faculty who advises and supports students regarding academic matters, which typically include course planning and registration. • The field educator works in the Office of Field Instruction and reviews students’ field placement materials and facilitates the field placement. • The field liaison is assigned by the Office of Field Instruction to each fieldwork site where a student is placed. The field liaison is typically the field educator who placed the student, or other School of Social Work faculty, who monitors and grades the student’s fieldwork performance. The field liaison also serves as an advocate for the student at the fieldwork site and helps to mediate placement-related problems. • The field instructor is a fieldwork site staff member, typically a post-masters MSW who is a licensed (LMSW) social worker, who supervises and evaluates the student’s performance.
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