Sets forth a model of group supervision, drawing on a creative therapies approach which provides an effective way of delivering process issues, conceptualization issues, and personalization issues. The model makes particular use of techniques drawn from art therapy and from psychodrama, and should be applicable to therapists of many orientations.…

This study explored expectations, perceptions, and qualities of mentoring relationships between cooperating and student teachers at two institutions, investigating features necessary for successful, satisfactory relationships. Interviews indicated that cooperating teachers tended to function as advisors rather than mentors. Mentoring relationships…

Asserts that teachers at child care centers need to use supervision on the playground to promote children's healthy development. Describes characteristics of successful supervision: (1) ensure safety; (2) understand development; (3) permit childish behavior; (4) engage and explain; (5) recognize individuals; (6) vary activities; (7) interest…

This article discusses a supervisory process built on three key concepts: trust, empowerment, and reflective problem solving. For these concepts to become operational, supervision must be restructured and reconceptualized. The "supervision" concept is outmoded and should be supplanted by more collegial and reflective terminology. (53…

Surveys about student teacher and student counselor supervision examined whether student practicum progress and supervisory strategies were consistent with a developmental model. Progress was consistent with a developmental model for student counselors but not student teachers. Supervision strategies for student counselors and student teachers…

Neoprogressive characteristics of clinical supervision possibilities can be incorporated into the supervision process to enhance teaching and learning through the improvement of instruction within the classroom. The article describes the characteristics and stages of the neoprogressive approach to clinical supervision, explaining why it offers…

Reports on a study of the use of museums by 541 middle and high school art education specialists. Finds that art specialists see the art museum as important to supplement classroom instruction in study work and art history. Includes four tables of data and recommendations for enhancing the use of museums by art educators. (CFR)

Mentoring programs for youth have grown tremendously in popularity in recent years and in many important respects reflect core principles of community psychology. Mentoring of youth is a complex phenomenon, however, with a range of significant processes occurring at the levels of individual youth and their mentors, youth-mentor relationships and…

Prevention and intervention research studies often fail to include an assessment of program integrity, and when they do, it is often examined in a limited way. Further, despite efforts to reform the intervention research process to include community stakeholders more actively in every phase of investigation, current practice generally employs a…

This paper describes the development of an instrument--The Reflective Supervisor Questionnaire (RSQ). The RSQ maps the domain of research supervisory practice as a facilitative process involving educational tasks and activities. It is designed to assist research supervisors explore, by means of self-reflection and reflection on feedback from…

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which the structure or patterning of supervisor and supervisee verbal interaction during supervision is enhanced or moderated by: (1) the problem severity (degree of impairment and level of distress of the client); (2) the anxiety of the supervisee and supervisor toward the client and toward…

This paper describes a course, Leadership as an Art, developed at the Madison Area Technical College (Wisconsin). The course is taught by pairs of instructors and is offered for college transfer credit in the humanities. It focuses on using the humanities to examine the various dimensions of leadership skills and their development. Students search…

In this study, relationships were examined among three aspects of the implementation of complex instruction, an innovative approach to teaching in heterogeneous classrooms. These three aspects were: (1) teachers' use of the complex instruction strategies in the classroom; (2) systematic and comprehensive feedback received by teachers from the…

The use of a schema analysis, or hierarchical classification system, to identify problem-solving approaches among principals with different levels of experience is examined in this paper. Forty-one students in Ontario--10 undergraduate teacher preparation students, 8 teachers with principal qualifications, and 23 principals grouped according to 3…

The consistency of principals' self-perceptions of their leadership styles with those of their teachers is determined in this study. Other focuses include differences between elementary and secondary teachers' perceptions of their principals' leadership styles and gender differences in such perceptions. The Leader Effectiveness and Adaptability…