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.

About Course Packs

This book includes openly licensed course materials, also known as open course packs, for future educators to review, use, and adapt to their own teaching. An open course pack is an aligned and accessible set of 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 fully aligned with textbook learning outcomes and content.

Oregon instructors designed each course pack in consultation with an instructional designer and, in most cases, revised each course pack based on feedback from Oregon students and an advisory board of workforce members. In each course pack, you will find a complete course map, an instructor guide, and ancillary materials including assignment prompts, rubrics, and suggested activities.

Open course packs from Open Oregon Educational Resources are designed with an equity lens. This means that they center the voices and experiences of underserved student populations. They are designed with equity-minded pedagogies, including Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT), and Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), and Open Educational Practices (OEP).

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Licenses and attributions for Instructor Resources

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

About Course Packs by Open Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under CC BY 4.0.