This workshop will share our teaching reflection and development process in providing students teamwork challenges to broaden their horizons in relational contexts relevant to their professional training preparation.

As a proactive teaching strategy, the social work PPE teachers have adopted an expanded focus on “Service Exposure” to enrich students’ real-world experience that integrate social services with academic learning to equip our year 1 students to meet the community needs of various target groups, such as single elderly persons, children of ethnic minorities, and people with intellectual disabilities, to name just a few.

Socia work students entering the challenging world of field work placement during their year 3 and year 4 program of study need to have certain transferable skills, appropriate practical knowledge and good working attitudes to succeed. Pre-Placement Exposure (PPE) is a pre-requisite for fieldwork practicum of social work year 1 and year 2 students. The “Service-Exposure” project is part of it. It is a project-based, experiential learning opportunity that we offer to year 1 students in the second semester till the early summertime with the collaboration of NGOs in Hong Kong.