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Paper Presentation

Teaching Methods and Learning Styles

Session: Creative approaches to social work pedagogy

Addressing student learning preferences in social work education through arts-based and experiential approaches

This presentation introduces participants to the use of experiential learning methodology in a course on arts based and experiential approaches to social work that includes micro and mezzo-macro applications. Experiential learning may reduce barriers for students with disabilities that make text-based and verbally oriented methods of learning and assessment challenging.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
  1. Explain the rationale for experiential learning for students with learning disabilities
  2. Describe the completion of the experiential learning cycle within a single course
  3. Incorporate creative expression into assessment of classroom learning