This study investigates how trainee teachers perceive their supervising teachers' supervisory competency. Through a questionnaire that was specifically developed for this study and which contained open-ended questions, student teacher candidates were asked to comment on their supervising teachers' competency in preparation for supervision,…

A college supervisor responds to a student teacher who is frustrated by her experience. (HMD)

The relationship between teacher effectiveness and supervisory ability is analyzed. (CK)

We position teaching as a complex, creative profession and have an expectation that practicum should support the reflexive, possibility-thinking and risk-taking creative endeavours of the beginning teacher. This paper reports on a series of studies that explored shared understandings and effectiveness of relationships and roles of practicum…

The evaluation of this project provides further evidence that the more traditional modes of in-service training need to be replaced with programs that provide help for teachers in their own individual classrooms. Advisors who assume roles of working in school settings over extended periods of time need to have certain qualities that will make them…

Several studies indicate the use of supervisors and consultants is effective when there is close contact with teachers in task oriented situations. (Author/RK)

Presentation of what teaching is, its purposes, how to prepare for it, and how to deal with problems. (Editor/HS)

This work is a collaborative study of a case-based practical inquiry. Teacher education faculty, led by a group facilitator, engaged in writing cases about supervisory dilemmas they experienced for the purposes of reflection, clinical analysis, and ethical thinking. Researchers reflected on their experiences in developing the cases and examined…

Discusses various approaches to the supervision of instruction and counseling, noting the assumptions made in each and the expectations held by each for both the supervisor and the supervised. (FL)

Discusses the role of the college supervisor in the student teacher segment of teacher education programs and stresses the need for and importance of the position and the necessity to make it more professional. (MB)

Notes that information to assist reading supervisors with self-development comes from four sources: observation and imitation, situational study, precepts of human motivation, and professional organizations and readings. (FL)

This paper describes the early childhood teacher training program and the role of the Project Approach in the final practicum for student teachers in the Lisbon School of Education, Portugal. Student teachers, cooperating teachers, university supervisors, and instructors of teaching methods worked together to involve young children in interesting…

This article identifies and analyzes the differences in demographic status data and reported practices of college supervisors at state and private teacher preparation institutions. (RC)