Assessment of Competencies

Assessment of Competencies Tool to Assess your Intern on Competency 2 Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice Competency 3 Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic and Environmental Practice Assessment of Competencies How do you assess your intern’s level of competence? The following slides include charts to help assess your intern’s level of competence, specifically on Competencies 2 and 3  Focus on the external expression of learning, such as language, action and behavior.  Include what your intern says/does in a client interview, agency/community meeting, role play, intervention plan, grant presentation, evaluation report, in supervision etc.  The charts are a guide; your intern does not need to demonstrate all behaviors for a certain level. Assessment of Competencies Why these two competencies? Competency 2 – “Engaging diversity and difference in practice” Competency 3 – “Advancing human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice” These are difficult competencies to assess – How do you know if your intern understands and applies these concepts in practice?   Each competency has several practice indicators or components Evaluate competence based on observations, conversations, and application in practice Assessment of Competencies Assessing Competence  The following slides provide examples of how competence can be assessed for a specific practice indicator associated with Competencies 2 and 3.  The examples should guide you in assessing your intern’s ability to demonstrate that they understand and have applied the concepts. Assessment of Competencies Competency 2 Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice Practice Indicators Pre competence Emerging Competence Sometimes engages in talk about diversity and the impact on clients, providers and systems Never or rarely Apply and engages in communicate the conversations around importance of diversity diversity or difference; and difference in shows little to no shaping life comprehension of experiences in practice concepts Articulates role of oppression; reaches out for help understanding and addressing racism Competence Advanced Competence Consistently talks about diversity; addresses power and Applies strategies to privilege; initiates address the impact of conversations; oppression and racism discusses intersectionality Identifies and addresses oppression and/or inequity when seen in practice Utilizes/creates interventions that consider culture and impact of difference Consistently asks Acknowledges that questions exploring personal experiences, identities and life histories, and identities experience; assessment includes shape our views sociopolitical context Reaches out to supervisor on how to reduce oppression in the setting Assessment of Competencies Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice Competency 2 (cont’d.) Practice Indicators Pre competence Emerging Competence Competence Advanced Competence Often close-minded, Seeks feedback, Responds to others' Open to feedback, defensive, consistently integrates mistakes empathically shows curiosity without feedback into changed in a way that teaches uncomfortable with preconceived notions mistakes and critiques behavior others Presents as learner and engages Seeks out practitioners Asks open-ended Seeks out further clients/constituencies Makes assumptions, from other questions, actively education/information as experts of their own doesn't ask questions; backgrounds for listens to clients, on clients' culture and experience fails to acknowledge consultation; acknowledges identity, explores the impact of various consistently and identities, suspends differences, asks more openly engages with identities e.g, age, judgment, speaks from refined culturally aware race, gender identity clients around identity own identity, not others questions intersectionality Assessment of Competencies Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice Competency 2 (cont’d.) Practice Indicators Apply self-awareness and self-regulation to manage personal biases and values in work with diverse clients/constituencies Pre competence Emerging Competence Competence Advanced Competence Articulates and Recognizes and critiques understanding Identifies identities and discusses struggles of relative power and positionality - e.g., oppression within with biases; openly explicitly talks about recognizes power context of society, being of color/white in internship, and the differentials; takes relation to others, risks to grow; profession; makes identifies some consistently identifies attempts to reduce personal values Never or rarely identities and values power inequalities as demonstrates selffeasible reflection or selfSometimes aware of awareness, resistant to impact of self- e.g,. Consistently aware critique Critiques how one Seeks out critique and and critical of impact of presents physically, self-critiques work with self; shares growth verbally, clients; critiques and self-awareness demographically, etc. experience based on with others; Asks for and receives ability, ethnicity, continuously works to culture, class etc. recognize and prevent critique of work with clients from whom they biases significantly differ Assessment of Competencies Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic & Environmental Justice – Competency 3 Practice Indicators Apply understanding of social, economic, and environmental justice to advocate for human rights at the individual and systemic levels Pre competence Emerging Competence Advanced Competence Competence Sometimes questions systems: why policies Consistently articulates Engages with and supports work for some and not concepts and empowerment of others connection to social Never or rarely marginalized and work practice engages in vulnerable people to Integrates right to conversations around access community basic needs as these concepts resources, foundation of practice, Identifies and opportunities and e.g., advocates for articulates global, decision-making housing, food stamp historical and current policy change injustices, e.g., ethnic cleansing, colonial Articulates barriers to expansionism, and justice and access to Brokers strategies to Does not have a xenophobia various “goods” further equitable working definition of access to these concepts and/or does not articulate Articulates awareness Incorporates strategies resources/services for connection to social of systemic injustices to address injustices in clients/communities work practice client/community and consequences on interventions well-being Assessment of Competencies Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic & Environmental Justice – Competency 3 Practice Indicators Pre competence Emerging Competence Competence Advanced Competence Leads advocacy efforts through community, Articulates how Participates in practice and/or policies advocacy efforts, e.g., policy, and/or research methods attends marches, affect clients and how meets with elected to engage in change Engage in practice that Never or rarely efforts even at small official, writes op-ed advances social, discusses methods to letter, drafts policy with Actively assists others levels economic, and eliminate oppressive justice underpinning in addressing environmental justice structural barriers discriminatory structural and cultural barriers on local, Articulates the role of Partners with national or global advocacy in client/community or its levels addressing injustices systems for advocacy Assessment of Competencies Feedback on Guidelines  Please let us know if you used these guidelines to assess your intern’s competence.  Would similar guidelines be helpful in assessing your intern on the other 7 competencies?