Field Supervisor
The Field Supervisor’s Role
Clinical teaching is a shared responsibility of the university and the public school. The field supervisor’s role is one of instruction, supervision, and maintenance of university-school relations.
Field Supervisor Responsibilities
Specifically, it is your duty as a Tarleton State University supervisor to:
- Act as a liaison person between the school campus and the university.
- Attend and participate in an orientation meeting for all clinical teachers, working specifically with your clinical teachers.
- Meet with each assigned cooperating teacher to discuss his/her role before or during the first week of clinical teaching.
- Conduct an individual pre-conference and post-conference session for each observation. This will be a part of the observation form.
- Observe each clinical teacher, in a classroom setting, according to the number of placements, and provide the clinical teacher, cooperating teacher, and principal with an electronic account of the observation within 24 hours (clinical teacher) and 1 week (cooperating teacher and principal).
- Counsel and assist any individual clinical teacher with any problems that may arise in his or her clinical teaching assignment.
- Evaluate the clinical teacher’s lessons and lesson plans as needed.
- Be available to the principal and cooperating teachers for conferences.
- Make recommendations concerning clinical teachers regarding withdrawal or re-assignment to the Director of Educator Certification and Academic Services.
- Provide on-going training of the clinical teacher through conferences and feedback throughout the semester.
- Emphasize the importance of ethical and professional conduct on the part of the clinical teacher.
- Emphasize to the clinical teacher the importance of handling certain problems and school situations with strictest confidence.
- Ensure that the clinical teacher understands clearly and carries out effectively his/her part of the clinical teaching program.
- Furnish the cooperating teachers’ copies of materials, forms, etc., which are given to the clinical teacher so that they will be familiar with regulations, requirements, and policies affecting the clinical teachers. Furnish copies to principal or district as needed.
- Encourage public school personnel to make suggestions and recommendations for the improvement of the clinical teaching program.
- Clinical teacher feedback summary reports should be submitted to the portal weekly.
- Travel must be pre-approved. Please ensure you submit an estimate request in Emburse.
- Travel reports should be turned in monthly to Andrea Hopper at ahopper@tarleton.edu.
- Conduct, with the cooperating teachers, a final written evaluation of each clinical teacher.