Discusses supervision of children on playgrounds, addressing rationale, ratio of supervisors to children, and training of supervisors. Training issues covered include what to look for in the setting, how to actively move through the playground, and how to respond. Includes a list of video and print resources. (EV)

Despite evidence supporting person-centered human resource development, control is the predominant model used. An approach to workplace learning in the construction industry--work activity briefings--demonstrates application of a developmental method. Changes in team and group relationships and supervisor attitudes can result. (SK)

Uses data from interviews with counselors to examine ineffective supervision practices. The data yielded six negative principles that permeated three general spheres of lousy supervision: (1) unbalanced, (2) intolerant of differences, (3) untrained/immature, (4) developmentally inappropriate, (5) poor model, and (6) professionally apathetic. By…

Examines the relationship between supervisor perceptions of their supervisory style and elements of the supervision process, including the supervisory working alliance and supervisor self-disclosure. Results demonstrate a significant positive relationship between attractive, interpersonally sensitive, and task-oriented supervisory styles and…

Several important developments have evolved in the supervision of cognitive therapists in the past few years. Five such developments are: (1) the conscious structuring of the supervision session to conform to the suggested structure of the therapy session; (2) increased emphasis on quickly and efficiently conceptualizing patients, refining the…

This digest focuses on the need to consider multicultural issues in supervision of counselors and methods of multicultural supervision. A number of multicultural issues in supervision such as the myth of "sameness" is addressed. Models are described that advocate supervision as a method to assist multicultural counselor development. It…

This digest focuses on the use of technology in the supervision of counselors. Each generation of new technology, from audiotapes and videotapes to fax machines and virtual reality, creates challenges and opportunities for the counseling supervisor. Increased use of computer-related technologies has given this generation of supervisors new ideas…

This digest focuses on international perspectives related to counseling supervision. It describes two strands in the history and understanding of supervision, one emerging from the United States and the other from Britain. The factor that distinguishes them is the location of counseling training. In the United States counselor training has largely…

THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: Set your mission. Agree on it. Keep talking about it. Set annual goals. Not too many. Monitor your progress. Expect results. Unite with your staff chief. Work out your differences. In private. Send out agendas and background material before board meetings. Review meetings in advance with your staff…

In this paper on the use of teachers as reflective users of peer clinical supervision, a research and literature review relating to the assumptions of clinical supervision, fostering reflective practice through clinical supervision, and the special potential of peer clinical supervision is presented. Then, a personal account of a beginning…

The proposed study will examine whether effective clinical supervision requires supervisors who practice certain strategies and procedures as they dialogue with supervisees in the conference, or whether the mere acquisition by supervisors and/or supervisees of research-verified knowledge about teaching and learning, e.g., the role of academic…

A summary of the Far West Laboratory findings in regard to the impact of the clinical supervision initiative (CSI) on project faculty and non-project faculty in general is presented with some detail on how the project faculty and non-project faculty at the California State University (CSU) Hayward campus seem to have been affected by CSI. The…

A study to determine the promising practices which a secondary school principal might use to implement the process of mainstreaming was conducted through interviews with 50 principals and a survey of books and articles published since 1970. The principals were asked to state five to ten promising practices they would recommend and their responses…

A study was conducted to determine the effects of three university supervisory approaches on the development of classroom techniques common to a specific teaching strategy. The 20 subjects, student teachers who had been introduced in a methods course to the inductive indirect teaching strategy desirable for science teachers, underwent three…

This review of 12 survey research studies on teacher supervision completed between 1941 and 1969 attempts to identify and interpret critical factors in supervisory performance, while also suggesting specific components of these factors. The research findings reported indicate at least three required areas of competence for effective supervisory…