Supervisor Development Programmes: Field Test One — the Feedback Role

An Exploratory Study of the Clinical Observation System: A Systematic Approach to Student Teacher Observations During Field Experience

“…The techniques of clinical supervision proposed by Goldhammer et al (1980), and Acheson and Gall (1980), have found limited and inconclusive support from research (Grimmett, 1982;Copeland, 1981;Sullivan, 1980;and Newman, 1980) and been criticised for a lack of clearly defined notions of desired outcomes in terms of pupil learning and development (Stones, 1984). There have been many attempts to establish this approach within selected groups of co-operating teachers on the assumption that this method will provide high quality supervision for student teachers (Eltis and Turney, 1984;Preston and Sheehy, 1983;Conners, Chivas and Thew, 1981;Edmonds, 1980;Sellars, 1983). However, the findings of Joyce et al (1977), andBowman (1978) suggest that there is little evidence of wide spread or consistent application of recent developments in supervising technology and that student teaching supervision is not a high priority among teacher preparation institutions.…”