ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an introduction to some different models of teaching social work practice. Of course, there are overlaps between each of the four models. To gain an understanding of different approaches to teaching and learning social work practice, and familiarity with some of the changes in practice learning over recent years. These changes mean that students' own experience of learning practice might be different from current expectations of the role of the practice teacher. There have been many changes in the way students are expected to learn the practice of social work. It is important to become acquainted with these changes because expectations are likely to be different from the way in which they experienced their own learning. Whereas student supervision has generally drawn more from theories of therapeutic involvement, practice teaching is developing more from theories of learning, with an emphasis on curriculum development.
