Investigates the effects of cognitive style and theoretical orientation on psychology interns' judgments about the type of supervision they find most beneficial. Results indicate that trainees' cognitive styles and behavioral emphasis of their theoretical orientations were significantly related to their preferences for task-oriented and…

Examines two forms of clinical peer supervision so as to investigate whether peer-group clinical supervision can have a positive impact on the effectiveness of school counselors. Results indicate that the two treatments did have a slightly positive impact on job satisfaction, counseling self-efficacy, and counseling effectiveness. (RJM)

Twenty suggestions are provided for helping teachers to become more effective managers of paraprofessionals and to improve the ways paraprofessionals work with students with learning disabilities. These include: provide orientation; find out what the paraprofessionals' work-style preferences are; assess the skills of the paraprofessional; observe…

Supervisors representing different levels of experience viewed videotape vignettes of counselors demonstrating the first three developmental levels of Stoltenberg's (1981) Counselor Complexity Model and assessed each counselor. Results indicated that supervisor experience did not influence the assessment of developmental level or ability to make…

The current paper uses information obtained from teaching practices to conceptualize how computers might be used to enhance the supervision of graduate counselling students (herein called beginning counsellors). Using Hill and O'Grady's (1985) list of counsellor intentions, the author devised a computer program called "Counsellor Assisted…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether supervisors' supervisory styles are related to master's-level counseling students' satisfaction with supervision and their perceived self-efficacy. Multiple regression analyses of data obtained for 82 participants indicated that particular supervisory styles were significant predictors of…

Postmodernists have criticized modern conceptions of supervision as bureaucratic, hierarchical, and oppressive. This paper asserts that the postmodern proclivity to completely eschew expert supervision, evaluation, and judicious use of directive supervision is misguided, potentially limiting, and dangerous. The paper argues that collegial…

These guidelines developed out of a study identifying support systems for supervisors of people with moderate special needs (MSN) in training internships and employment situations. Generally MSNs are dependable, loyal employees who are eager to please and to do a good job. Problems occur because the MSNs are insecure about their role at work, have…

An ethnographic or anthropological perspective is useful for the reexamination of the assumptions and taken-for-granted nature of the practice of supervision. An indepth survey of literature on supervisors illustrates supervisory roles and the existence of a separate "supervisor culture". Specifically, the relationship between novice teachers and…

Remote supervision may be a partial solution for upgrading the supervision of vocational technical teachers. Remote audio with video feedback, field recording, and audio-phone and video-phone supervision are four of the seven methods described and evaluated in the article. (Author/AJ)

Analyzed was the use of the Flanders technique of interaction analysis as a supervisory device with science interns. Fourteen candidates for the Master of Arts in Teaching degree were involved in the study. Seven spring-term interns were in the control group, and five fall-term and two spring-term interns comprised the experimental group. Each…

A guide for training eligibility supervisors in public welfare is presented. The following topics are discussed: (1) the agency's program goals and philosophy for determining eligibility for financial and medical assistance; (2) understanding the worker's function; (3) the supervisory responsibility; (4) developing the supervisory relationships;…

The supervisor facilitates the students' attainment of the instructional objective by (1) diagnosing the curriculum (in particular the behavioral objectives) and the teachers, (2) prescribing steps to remedy areas of concern with respect to the curriculum and the teachers, and (3) enabling changes in the curriculum to occur while at the same time…

Offers a method of implementing the idea that supervision of resident assistants is central to the effectiveness of a residence life program, by proposing a developmental supervision strategy for supervisors in student affairs. Tabulated information offers supervisors specific strategies for processing the experiences and maximizing the…

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the supervision of school psychologists. It is useful for field supervisors of school psychology interns, school psychologists acting as supervising school psychologists, and graduate students enrolled in a supervision course. Because of the book's emphasis on human development, effective management…