Author Message to Future Instructors

This book was written to be adaptable to many different learning and teaching styles. I hope you find the content relevant and engaging and decide to adopt and/or adapt the text yourself.

The text was intentionally written with two goals in mind: centering issues of equity and student interaction with the materials.

It is an ongoing struggle in the field of human services to acknowledge and address inequities. These inequities exist in who is receiving services as well as who is providing services. We have tried to address both of these issues throughout the text. We ask students to reflect on the culture of the agency, how clients experience the helping process, and their own experiences as new professionals. In this way, we hope to increase students’ awareness of inequities and prepare them to address these issues in the field.

The book includes H5P activities that give students a chance to interact with the materials. In addition, each chapter ends with a set of discussion questions, journal prompts, and self-care activities. The book also includes case studies and “In Focus” sections that allow students to gain a deeper understanding of fieldwork.

The text is aligned to the Council for Standards in Human Service Education, specifically Standard 20, which addresses fieldwork.

Integrated Openly Licensed Course Materials

This book includes openly licensed course materials that fully integrate with the open textbook. Anyone can retain, revise, remix, reuse, and redistribute them. Best of all, future instructors can build on existing learning pathways that are aligned with textbook and chapter learning outcomes.

You can access openly licensed course materials in two ways:

• Human Services Practicum Instructor Course Packs: A collection of aligned and accessible course materials shared by pilot instructors teaching at multiple Oregon institutions. Instructors designed each course pack with an equity lens in consultation with an instructional designer. In most cases, each course pack was revised with feedback from Oregon students and an advisory board of workforce members. Each course pack includes a complete course map, an instructor guide, and ancillary materials including weekly assignment prompts, rubrics, and suggested activities.
• Human Services Practicum OER Commons Group: An ongoing repository of instructor-created course materials that integrate with the open textbook. Materials may include syllabi, assessments and assignments, lesson plans, activities, and entire course shells. Please note: not all OERC resources are reviewed for digital accessibility.

You are welcome to contribute your own openly licensed course materials that align with this textbook to the OERCommons Group. Thank you for building a more inclusive future for students and future educators!

Licenses and Attributions for Instructor Resources

Author Message to Future Instructors by Kimberly Puttman is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Integrated Openly Licensed Course Materialss by Open Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under CC BY 4.0.