Conduct at least 2 or 3 clinical supervision cycles with either a teacher or a student teacher. After you have completed these cycles, engage in a feedback session with this person which focuses on your role as a helping person. Prepare a 10 minute oral presentation related to this supervisory relationship for one of the class sessions.

Each clinical supervision cycle should include a pre-conference, an observation of at least 20 minutes, and a post-conference. Take notes on or after each of these parts of the cycle. In addition, you should have a conference with the teacher or student teacher specifically focusing on your role as a helping person.

In the oral presentation, address the following:

(1) A description of your "supervision" of the student teacher or teacher (e.g., the nature of the setting, focus of the observations and conferences, supervisory strategies employed, etc.).

(2) What you learned about yourself as a supervisor from this experience (e.g., how you would handle this situation differently the next time around).

(3) A discussion of any unresolved supervisory problems that remained at the end of this experience (what are they, how did you attempt to resolve them, what interpersonal or organizational factors were related to these problems, etc.?).

Prepare a one-page handout for all class members giving some brief background, examples, and conclusions. If at all possible, a short segment of a videotaped supervisory post-conference for presentation to the class would be very valuable.

Evaluation: Your presentation will be evaluated based on the following areas:

1. Description of supervision: setting, focus, strategies, etc.

2. What learned about self as supervisor/coach

3. Unresolved supervisory problems

4. Other: Q&A, Video, handout, clarity, etc.

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