Role of Field Supervisor Agreement

Educational Leadership

Role of Field Supervisor

Each credential candidate is assigned a field supervisor to guide his/her work through support; observation, and evaluation in the school or district placement. They communicate directly with the credential candidates about the program expectations and requirements. Field supervisors also facilitate interaction and conversation between credential candidates and the school administrators.

Fields Supervisors are expected to:

· Conduct a meeting with the credential candidate at the start of the academic year to (a) review the expectations, policies, and procedures for the field experience; (b) explain SCU’s expectations for the credential candidate; (c) discuss the field supervisor’s role in the process of support, evaluation and interaction throughout the year; and (d) cover all items on the list of discussion topics provided to the field supervisors.

· Visit with the credential candidate at least once per month (3 times a quarter) for observation and conversation during each quarter.

· Support the credential candidate by reviewing project-based tasks, answering questions, brainstorming solutions to field-based challenges, etc.

· Maintain ongoing contact and communication with credential candidate throughout the year. Assist with and validate the completion of tasks of each quarter assignments.

· Facilitate logistics surrounding the CalAPA tasks (securing forms, videotaping, etc.) as necessary.

· Exercise their responsibility for taking appropriate action by modeling and providing examples if credential candidate experiences difficulty meeting expectations for field lab performance.

Participate in an end of quarter conference with the credential candidate and field lab instructor to discuss the credential candidate’s progress in the field placement at the end of Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters. The end of the quarter concludes with a decision regarding the candidate’s ability to consistently demonstrate a level of mastery of the CalAPA standards appropriate for a beginning administrator and has satisfactorily met the requirements for the field lab course.