Dr. James Barber, Dir. of Field Education

School of Theology and Missions Graduate Program

Field Education at ORU

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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