This manual presents guidelines for supervisors of employees with learning disabilities. Guidelines were developed from both the author's supervisory experience and from a research study surveying employers to identify support systems and techniques to enable supervisors to work more effectively with these employees. The survey, which included 65…

One of the difficulties counselor supervisors face is the lack of specific training in learning to deal with difficult supervisees. To address practical as well as theoretical concerns, two related sets of videotapes were prepared. The first set was designed to provide a stimulus for discussions of common supervisory problems. A role player…

Forces affecting the supervisor and supervisors' responses to questionnaires about work systems and management relations are presented, indicating the need for better understanding between managers and supervisors. Action learning programs for supervisors, specifically maintenance supervisors, are proposed. (MF)

Central Missouri State University's detailed training model for teacher supervision focuses on building a supervision knowledge base with information about professional supervisory skills and techniques that can be used for extensive preparation of those who supervise student teachers. (CB)

Argues that effective supervision requires the ability to acquire skills in a variety of areas, to select those appropriate to a task, and to use them in concert. Discusses a number of skills necessary for good supervision. (FL)

Effects of supervision support and supervisor race were examined. Sixty Caucasian women, supervised by one of six experienced supervisors (three African American, three Caucasian), served as counselors in two counseling sessions with a confederate client. Results revealed main effect for supervisor level of support but no effects for supervisor…

A survey of 212 Wisconsin special educators found the majority were expected to supervise paraeducators but had no preservice education or inservice from their school system. Ninety percent felt teacher-educator institutions should educate preservice educators and indicated topics that should be covered. Respondents' challenges to working with…

We are thesis examiners within the Australian academic system who formed a community of practice to try to resolve some of the issues we were facing. Stories of examiners reflecting on and examining their own practice are a notable silence in the higher degree research literature. In this study we have adopted a storytelling inquiry method that…

Teachers in inner city schools today are usually unprepared for dealing effectively with a mobile, rapidly changing, culturally varied population. A program to provide such training, based upon the concept of staff self help through collegial supervision, was implemented in the Francis M. Leahy Elementary School in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Over a…

Reviews the section on supervision in the "Ethical Code for the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors" and a recent article from the family counseling literature that provides a schema for more specific direction, thus enhancing the ethical code. (JBJ)

Argues for a paradigm shift to consciously developing, nurturing, and applying critical thinking skills in counseling supervision. Suggests supervisors will benefit from the intentionality of the paradigm, supervisees will benefit from the mentoring and the modeling, and clients will benefit as the supervisors progress in their delivery as…

This report consists of two main sections. The first presents a theory about how supervisors decide on the causes of a subordinate's poor performance and what they do about it. A two-stage process is suggested. The first stage involves the supervisor making attributions about the causes of the poor performance. This stage requires processing an…

This student guide is intended to assist persons employed as supervisors in mastering the technique of value analysis. Discussed in the first three sections are the following topics: the aims and benefits of value analysis; procedures and techniques (getting started, stages of value analysis, analytical and creative thinking, and other devices);…

The curriculum presented in this training guide is seen as the foundation upon which the child welfare system can build collaboration in foster care. The first training module focuses on the significance of the parent-child relationship and the impact of separation on this relationship. It presents a general framework for understanding…