Reading #1
Kadushin & Harkness: Chapter 5: Principles and Problems in Implementing Educational Supervision
This chapter is concerned with how the supervisor teaches to catalyze learning. It is further concerned with some of the problems in implementing the process of educational supervision. Read pp. 127-144.
Kadushin, A., & Harkness, D. (2014). Principles and problems in implementing educational supervision. In Kadushin, A. & Harkness, D. Supervision in social work (pp. 127-158). New York: Columbia University Press.
Reading #2
Self-Managed Supervision
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The growth of professional supervision in social work has been accompanied by complex attempts to theorise key elements of supervisory practice and highlight the need to further examine what constitutes supervisory support in current regulatory environments. Changes in human service organisations resulting from new public management generate a need to theorise broader patterns of support available to human service workers. This article draws on an electronic, mixed-method self-reporting study of advice and support-seeking behaviours of 193 human service professionals in 3 South Australian organisations. The findings indicate the fluidity of current professional supervision practice, with workers seeking professional wisdom, identifying practice direction, and debriefing with a range of colleagues within and outside their organisation. Accordingly, the article confirms that supervisors should no longer be thought of as the sole providers of professional advice and support for human service workers and conceptualises the workers as active agents shaping their own learning
King, S., Carson, E., & Papatrainaou, L.H. (2017). Self-managed supervision. Australian Social Work, 70(1), 4-16.
Reading #3
PowerPoint: Chapter 5: Principles and Problems in Implementing Educational Supervision
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This PowerPoint corresponds with Chapter 5. You can use this as a guide when you are reading.
Malone, P.A. (2020). Principles and problems in implementing educational supervision (PowerPoint slides).
Reading #4
PowerPoint: Learning Styles
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This PowerPoint explores various types of learning styles to think about as a supervisor.
Malone, P.A. (2020). Learning styles (PowerPoint).
Websites to read
Website #1
VARK: A Guide to Learning Preference (Links to an external site.)
VARK is a questionnaire that helps your learning by suggesting the strategies you should be using. As you fill out the questionnaire and obtain the results about your learning preferences, keep in mind what it might be like to supervise those with differing learning preferences.
VARK Learn Limited (2020). VARK: A guide to learning preferences.
Website #2
Creative Types (Links to an external site.)
Take this quiz to determine your creative personality, then download to obtain the information about your creative type. Think about how you might supervise people with differing creative personalities.
Creative Types (2020). Creative types.
Website #3
The VIA Character Strengths Survey (Links to an external site.)
The VIA Survey is a free, scientific survey of character strengths. Take this simple character test in 15 minutes or less and reveal your greatest strengths. Think about what this says about you as a supervisor.
VA Institute on Character (2020). The VIA character strengths survey
Website #4
16 Personalities Test (Links to an external site.)
Take this personality test and think about your results as they pertain to you in a supervisory role.
NERIS Analytics Limited (2011-2020). 16Personalities
Video to watch
Questions to Answer
Please put the concepts into your own works, not simply quote from your textbook or quote from another source. However, you are encouraged to look for and bring in other sources! The minimum requirement is 200+ words for EACH response to EACH question. Please respond to the following questions in your own words, using complete sentences. These are to be substantive responses demonstrating thoughtfulness and effort.
Question:
The textbook lists six principles under which people learn best. Discuss some techniques you would utilize as a supervisor to enhance the learning condition regarding one of the principles.
Based on the PowerPoint and the web sites about learning styles and learning preferences, and what you have determined as your learning style from taking the various surveys, explain how you as a supervisor would approach educational supervision with a supervisee who learns as you do.
