Toula Kourgiantakis's guest appearances

Toula Kourgiantakis

The Social Work Podcast

Lori Gottlieb

Brian Kelly

Carol Anderson

David Miller

Lisa Damour

Barbara Jones

Matt Salo

Kevin Briggs

Julie Hanks

Kevin Hines

Eileen Flanagan

Janet Heimlich

David Niven

Chris Wolf

Tom Young

OwlTail

Marion Bogo

Episode 120: Today's episode of the Social Work Podcast is an interview with Marion Bogo and Toula Kourgiantakis from the University of Toronto Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. We talk about how simulation can be used to teach holistic competence. Marion and Toula talk about how in the late 2000s, they recognized that there were several problems with the existing model of teaching students practice skills. Their solution was to simulate real-world problems so that students could practice specific skills, get feedback, and improve their practice. Marion and Toula detail the steps necessary for creating simulations, how they involved field supervisors in the development of client simulations, the iterative nature of improving the simulations over time, and an innovative approach to help students learn knowledge and skills through practice and feedback they call "Practice Friday". You can connect with other social workers at the Social Work Podcast Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/swpodcast, or follow the Twitter feed http://www.twitter.com/socworkpodcast. You can listen to the Social Work Podcast from socialworkpodcast.com, by downloading the episodes through iTunes, Google Play, or any number of other apps, or you can stream the 10 most recent episodes right from your mobile device using the Stitcher Radio mobile app http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/social-work-podcast/the-social-work-podcast.

Episode 120: Today's episode of the Social Work Podcast is an interview with Marion Bogo and Toula Kourgiantakis from the University of Toronto Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. We talk about how simulation can be used to teach holistic competence. Marion and Toula talk about how in the late 2000s, they recognized that there were several problems with the existing model of teaching students practice skills. Their solution was to simulate real-world problems so that students could practice specific skills, get feedback, and improve their practice. Marion and Toula detail the steps necessary for creating simulations, how they involved field supervisors in the development of client simulations, the iterative nature of improving the simulations over time, and an innovative approach to help students learn knowledge and skills through practice and feedback they call "Practice Friday". <br>You can connect with other social workers at the Social Work Podcast Facebook page, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/swpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/swpodcast</a>, or follow the Twitter feed <a href="http://www.twitter.com/socworkpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.twitter.com/socworkpodcast</a>. You can listen to the Social Work Podcast from <a href="http://socialworkpodcast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">socialworkpodcast.com</a>, by downloading the episodes through iTunes, Google Play, or any number of other apps, or you can stream the 10 most recent episodes right from your mobile device using the Stitcher Radio mobile app <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/social-work-podcast/the-social-work-podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/social-work-podcast/the-social-work-podcast</a>.

120: Using simulation to teach holistic competence: Interview with Marion Bogo and Toula Kourgiantakis