Category: Supervisor – Roles
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Neil Kibble, “Reflection and Supervision in Clinical Legal Education: Do Work Placements Have a Role in Undergraduate Legal Education”
This article sets out a number of theories and criticisms of supervision in clinical legal education. The author suggests that supervision requires encouraging the learner to enter the zone of proximal development. The zone of proximal development (originally developed for childhood learning) refers to the gap between what children can accomplish independently and what they…
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Margaret Castles & Carol Boothby, “What Hat Shall I Wear Today? Exploring the Professional and Ethical Implications of Law Clinic Supervision”
This chapter proposes that it is valuable for clinical supervisors to identify and understand their various roles with respect to their associated professional expectations to ensure that they adopt a mindful and balanced approach to supervision. Clinical supervisors hold many roles: legal practice manager, senior lawyer, risk manager, assessor of written work and performance, counsellor,…
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Peter Toll Hoffman, “The Stages of the Clinical Supervisory Relationship”
This paper examines the role of the supervisor in legal clinic contexts. Throughout the student-supervisor relationship, teaching occurs in many ways: dialectic teaching, didactic teaching, evaluation, demonstration, or a combination of some or all of these teaching methods. The relationship between student and supervisor is constantly changing. There are several stages students pass through while…
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Neil Gold, “Clinic Is the Basis for a Complete Legal Education: Quality Assurance, Learning Outcomes and the Clinical Method”
Neil Gold describes the role of the clinical supervisor as: “The supervisor, as guide and role model, should seek to be: thoughtful; insightful; measured-to-person, need and context; learned; holistic; and above all, constructively helpful. The importance of the role of the clinic supervisor in explicating and supporting student learning cannot be understated. This interpretive and…
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Michael Meltsner, James V Rowan & Daniel J Givelber, “The Bike Tour Leader’s Dilemma: Talking about Supervision”
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in Annotated Bibliography, Assessment, Evaluation, Feedback, Field of Supervision – Legal, Format – Article, Mentorship – Formal, Mentorship – Informal, Mentorship – Versus Supervision, Professional Development, Reflective Practice, Supervision – Empirical Research, Supervision – Quality of Supervision – Good, Supervision – Quality of Supervision -Effective, Supervision – Stages, Supervisor – RolesThis article examines supervision in private firms through a survey of both supervisors and supervisees. In private practice, supervision is defined as: (1) overseeing the production of discrete work products, and (2) the instruction that necessarily accompanies task completion. Effective supervision was defined as good human relations and clear communication. Both formal and informal mentoring…
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Allyson Davys & Liz Beddow, Best Practice in Professional Supervision: A Guide for the Helping Professions
This book examines supervision in the healthcare professions. Professional supervision in the health professions provides the core functions of accountability, education, and support. This book discusses four supervision models or approaches: developmental models of supervision, reflective models, post-modern approaches, and cultural supervision (see Chapter 2). Developmental models of supervision consist of three categories: those that…
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William P Quigley, “Introduction to Clinical Teaching for the New Clinical Law Professor: A View from the First Floor”
Recognizing that there are limited resources aimed at training clinic supervising lawyers, this article aims to assist new clinic teachers in defining their teaching styles. It also highlights commonly asked questions such as, “how much control over cases should students have?” and, “what is involved in supervising the work of students?”. The author notes that…
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Archie Zariski & Irene Styles, Supervising Students in Clinical Legal Education, Handbook with Exercises
This Australian handbook sets out guidelines for the supervisory relationship in clinical legal education. It includes information about effective supervision skills, stages of growth, juggling serving clients and students, dealing with different values and personalities, and managing time and information. It concludes by setting out a series of suggestions and resources. This handbook contains exercises,…