Field experience is increasingly emphasized and valued in the dynamic world of engineering. It involves those activities which completed outside of the college classroom and correlate to that content being taught in the particular course. Working and learning on site gives many other benefits that could have a big impact on throughout your career. It deals with observation in classroom setting, tutoring students, reading to students etc.

Field experiences are considered the integral part of the teacher education preparations programs. They have been designed for the purpose of guiding students and controlling experiences with professionals in the elementary and secondary schools. They are helpful in expending and challenging personal and professional attitudes by providing growth opportunities for students.

Benefits of Field Experience:

The field experience is the efficient source of providing the students an opportunity so that they could integrate the social work theory as well as the knowledge from a practical prospective. Through field placements, students will be able to apply generalist knowledge, values and skills learned in the classroom as it provides a well structured environment in an urban based setting for students.

Here are some significant benefits of field experience to students:

• Professional Attitude: The student will be able to develop a professional identity as a social worker as well as a clinical social worker because it has been characterized by competence in a wide range of social work skills, knowledge and values.




• Professional Ethics: He will be offered learning of applying the values and ethics of the profession so that he could develop the capacity to tolerate and work constructively with the values dilemma and conflicts.




• Knowledge: In order to utilize as well as build upon the theoretical and practical knowledge which they have gained during their academic sessions for preparation of practice, they will obtain extensive and varied opportunities.




• Skills: The students will possess various practical skills which would b fundamental to social work and relevant to a broad range of clients and types of settings.




• Developed Learning Process: By actively engaged in the learning process, he would develop the capacity to reflect on the work and can make use of supervision.




• Aware About Himself: The students will be able to aware about himself with clients, staff and larger systems in relation to practice by developing a self reflective and reflective stance.




• Concept of Practice: There will be a development of philosophy towards practice which recognizes the interdependence between the individual as well as the environment.