Clinical Supervision: A Genius Tool for Teachers’ Professional Growth

Year 2021, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 51 - 57, 01.07.2021

Azzeddine Bencherab Ali Al Maskari

Abstract

This paper discusses the necessity of implementing instructional supervision in general with a little
focus on clinical supervision. While clinical supervision is seen as an important tool to make teachers
develop professionally, it cannot fit all teachers. Supervisors and principals insist on taking into
account learners’ diversity during the teaching learning process, teachers’ diversity is most of the
time neglected. As a result, other forms of supervision were highlighted in this paper to offer
supervisors’ options to adopt the approach that fits their supervisees or institutions. Despite
differences between supervisory forms in terms of implementation, all forms discussed in this paper
contribute to the teachers’ growth. The paper was structured in a way that it highlights the role of
teachers in taking in charge their own growth by engaging in reflective practices and dispelling the
view that the supervisor is the expert

Keywords

Growth, professional development, reflective practices

Clinical Supervision: A Genius Tool for Teachers’ Professional Growth

Abstract

This paper discusses the necessity of implementing instructional supervision in general with a little
focus on clinical supervision. While clinical supervision is seen as an important tool to make teachers
develop professionally, it cannot fit all teachers. Supervisors and principals insist on taking into
account learners’ diversity during the teaching learning process, teachers’ diversity is most of the
time neglected. As a result, other forms of supervision were highlighted in this paper to offer
supervisors’ options to adopt the approach that fits their supervisees or institutions. Despite
differences between supervisory forms in terms of implementation, all forms discussed in this paper
contribute to the teachers’ growth. The paper was structured in a way that it highlights the role of
teachers in taking in charge their own growth by engaging in reflective practices and dispelling the
view that the supervisor is the expert.

Keywords

Growth, professional development, reflective practices

References

• Acheson, K. A., & Gall, M. D. (1987). Techniques in the clinical supervision of teachers: Preservice and inservice applications. White Plains, NY: Longman Inc