Supervisors can use a wide range of skills and exercises when terminating counseling supervision with supervisees at the end of a practicum class. This article presents an experiential creative activity, the Wisdom Jar, as a metaphor for discussing specific lessons with supervisees. The use of creativity and the integration of symbols and…

Keller's Personalized System of Instruction dominated the literature in the teaching of psychology and behavior analysis in the 1970s and 1980s. After this brief flourish of interest, PSI research trickled off to a nearly imperceptible stream in the 1990s. However, with the increasing availability and ease of use of computers and the internet,…

Encouraging and facilitating homework completion is a core cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) skill. Consequently, it represents an important part of training practitioners. Oftentimes the process of integrating homework into therapy is rushed, poorly executed, or forgotten, and trainees are surprised to find that some patients do not complete…

The contributors to this article reflect on the process and value of participating together in a monthly reflective supervision group for supervisors in a child abuse prevention program. Some of them joined the group with considerable interest in and experience with reflective supervision. For others this was an entirely new experience that they…

In this article, the author describes "Primary Supervision", a seminar he has led for approximately 20 years, which is designed for the entire class of nine first-year residents in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry training at Massachusetts General Hospital. The seminar meets for 1 hour each week throughout the first year. Through 900…

Current Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP; 2001) standards promote the use of triadic supervision by counselor educators and supervisors. However, conceptual models of triadic supervision do not presently exist in the supervision literature. This article describes the process and structure of 1 model…

This book describes two studies, the first of which is a single case study that interprets the practical knowledge of an exemplary fine arts supervisor. An analysis of ethnographic data portrays the supervisor's practical knowledge as constructed around a dialectical orientation between two constructs or landscapes of imagery: the empowerment and…

Internship is a vital experience for a student counselor, providing opportunities for application and integration of knowledge and skills. University supervision of school counseling interns is a complex task. This document, addressing a lack of articles on the pragmatism of this type of supervision work, provides two handbooks that show how to…

The research project described here explored the complexity of the relationships in a group supervision model of teacher education, focusing on the empowerment of teachers as confirmed by their involvement, collegiality, and reflection. The theoretical frameworks informing the project were: the concept of connectedness as described in feminist…

Due to parental disenchantment with a Mississippi Delta junior high school principal, the principal's leadership style, the school climate, and group interactions were investigated. A consultant was employed to determine teachers', students', and parents' perceptions of the school climate and of the principal as a leader, and then to recommend a…

In this 2-year study, the assumptions and methods of role theory were employed to guide the description and analysis of instructional leadership among secondary school principals. This paper reports selected findings from the first year's work--a focused ethnographic study of instructional leadership patterns in five secondary schools--based on…

This annotated bibliography was prepared to serve as background material for the paper "Instructional Leadership: A Composite Working Model" by James R. Weber. Although not all the materials compiled in this bibliography propose discrete models of instructional leadership, the selections represent the range of issues, tasks, and…

This proposal is predicated on the assumption that in order to improve instruction, formative assistance must be conceptually separated from summative evaluation. Teacher improvement requires the involvement of other teachers, department chairs, students, parents, and administrators, whereas summative evaluation is separate from the growth process…

Rationale, plans, and results are reported of a State workshop designed to bring all vocational teacher educators together to identify the problems of the first-year teacher, develop strategies to use in helping them, and utilize those strategies in teacher education programs. The problems identified as those of a first-year teacher are listed,…

This study concerns student teachers' views of the behavior of supervisors during the school practice periods in two Finnish Teachers' Colleges. It is divided into four parts. In part one, the structure of the behavior of supervisors as assessed by student teachers is analyzed, and the concepts used to describe the behavior are defined. Part two…