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 reflective modeling and methodology can contribute to students’ lifelong habits of learning and problem solving. In engaging the whole student, her thoughts, feelings, hopes and fears, the supervisor simultaneously engages the already stimulated affect and intellect of the student in her quest to deliver signal service. In this model, the student’s experiences as primary actor and her thinking and feeling about them before action, in action and upon reflection are the focal point for guided debriefings and interpretations by the supervisor and often by the student herself once she has been trained to reflect in and on action.”

Neil Gold, “Clinic Is the Basis for a Complete Legal Education: Quality Assurance, Learning Outcomes and the Clinical Method” (2015) 22:1 Int’l J Clinical Legal Educ 1.