Educational Supervision in Social Work: A Task-centered Model for Field Instruction and Staff Development Book

While theories about the principles and purposes of educational supervision abound, it has proven difficult to translate these ideas into a coherent model of supervisory practice. This book answers that need, presenting in detail the Task-Centered Model for Educational Supervision (TCS). TCS is an ordered series of discrete activities that the supervisor and supervisee follow during and between supervision meetings, designed to promote the continous attainment of learning and practice objectives. TCS accommodates new models of field instruction in social work, building accountability in fieldwork supervision and teaching novice social workers how to be self-initiating and evaluative. This is a comprehensive analysis, one that examines the history and principles of TCS and presents an in-depth discussion of its practical implementation, including detailed case vignettes interspersed throughout the book that provide concrete examples of putting theory into practice.