The Worker-Supervisor Formula for Applying Learning in the Field (TOL)

Level: Advanced Practice – Supervisors

Credits: 6

Intended Audience: New and experienced supervisors who supervise and train staff who are interested in learning how to assist workers to transfer learning from the training classroom to the job

Intended Objectives:

• Participants will define roles of supervisor and social workers as well as the relationship between both.
• Participants will identify parallel process themes in casework discussion and classroom experience.
• Participants will understand concept of “transfer of learning.”
• Participants will define “support” and develop a plan to maintain this in their professional development.

Topics Include:

• Transfer of Learning
• The roles of the supervisors, workers and trainers in transfer of learning
• Utilizing activities that support the transfer of learning from the classroom to the job
• Parallel process for the supervisor and worker
• Cultural considerations in transfer of learning

AHA Supervisor Competencies Addressed:

• Participant will identify the stages of a social worker’s development and the needs that are a part of each stage, and be better able to implement strategies and take approaches that meet the needs of the staff the participant supervises.
• Participant is better able to assess the training needs of the staff he/she supervises.
• Participant will have an increased understanding of a variety of learning and problem solving styles and will demonstrate skills that help participant’s staff
  learn to do their job better.