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Dr. James Barber, Dir. of Field Education
School of Theology and Missions Graduate Program
Field Education at ORU
04/18/23 Field Education Orientation/Training 2
THE EQUATION:
Committed SUPERVISOR +
Encouraging CONGREGATION/AGENCY +
STUDENT open to learn all the site can teach +
SEMINARY approval and support =
Field EducationField Education
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A PLACE TO BEGIN
The primary TARGET
is the STUDENT
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A PLACE TO BEGINStudents are placed in churches and agencies because there they:
• Acquire and test ministry skills
• Become competent and successful in
-Church leadership
-Para-church understanding
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A PLACE TO BEGIN
• Students come to field education as highly capable but unfinished products
• The local churches/agencies are laboratories for learning
• Students will be given regular (contracted) opportunities to assist in ministry
• Learning a New Skill Involves Four Stages• Being Unconsciously unskilled –
you don’t know that you don’t know how to do something
• Being Consciously unskilled – you become aware that you don’t know
• Being Consciously skilled – you know that you know something (not automatic yet)
• Being Unconsciously skilled – you are skilled and you’re not thinking about it (2nd nature)
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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTSStudents must complete 50% of their degree and take PRM 673 Intro to Pastoral Care prior to enrolling in Field Education Field Education consists of 3 semester credit hours:
PRM 673 Intro to Pastoral Care• What is Church • What is Community•Learn to Journal / Do Case Studies•Book Review
Church (1.5 Credit) 120 semester hours•Observe•Participate
Community (1.5 Credit) 120 semester hours•Para- church awareness•Participate in Process
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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
The site provides a theologically trained supervisor who has: been in professional ministry or
equivalency (education, counseling) for at least three years
been on-site in ministry in some capacity for at least one year in a church or Para-church facility that is in good standing in the community
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FIELD EDUCATION SITES• FIELD EDUCATION SITES are expected to:
–provide a context for
• -contracted learning
• -evaluations
–meet the student’s needs
• -educational
• -professional
• -developmental
–provide a supervisor who
• -is trained and certified
• -completes all required reports on time
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FIELD EDUCATION SUPERVISION
• A FIELD EDUCATION SUPERVISOR should
-invest time and interest in the student to discuss and fulfill contract items
-dedicate at least one hour per week to on- the-job training and/or uninterrupted time to supervise the student
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At the end of the placement students should have learned:
• How he or she comes across to others
• What kind of energy ministry requires
• How context shapes ministry
• What a pastor/preacher/minister does
• How a particular church or agency works
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At the end of the placement students should have learned:
• What leadership requires
• How God’s call to ministry plays out in the world
• How to apply classroom and theology reflection to a practical context
• How to relate to different people as a professional
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THE END RESULT
A student that has a fulfilling experience of practical application in ministry