Evidence suggests that student teachers are affectively disposed to examples of directive over nondirective supervision. Future research should examine tentative findings that student teachers prefer supervisors of the opposite sex. (Author/CJ)

Fifty-four male and female student teachers' preferences for direct or nondirect supervision and male or female supervisors were sampled by recording their reactions to one of four randomly assigned supervisory conferences, which differed in relation to the direct or nondirect behavior of the supervisor and to the supervisor's sex. A significant…

Student teachers, after listening to two taped supervisory conferences, rated the more directive supervisory behavior (typified by declarative and expository statements and an authoritarian posture) as more desirable. Discrepancies between these results and those of earlier studies are discussed. (MJB)

Clinical settings are more important in teacher education than simply as arenas in which meaningful instruction behaviors are practiced. Training of teachers must be viewed as a process of induction into the classroom environment, in which the clients (students) work very powerfully on the trainees. (FG)