Supervision in continuous teacher training

• Main Authors: Ana CARLOS, Silvia CARDOSO, Lucía MASSANO, Sandra Marisa GALANTE, Fernanda LAMY, Paula SILVA, Maria Ivone GASPAR, Filipa SEABRA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2017-06-01
• Series: Enseñanza & Teaching
• Subjects: supervision; continuing teacher training; supervising practice; teacher training center
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0212-5374/article/view/15862

<p>The concept of Supervision is not new, however, in the xxi century, it has been reframed and gained a more relevant status in Portugal, because it operates in a changing context of the exercise of the teaching profession, emerging associated with a new paradigm of teachers’ intervention and action.</p><p>With regard, continuing education is assumed as a determining factor, and therefore the present study searched for i) evidence of implementation of supervising <br /> processes at School Association Training Centres (cfaes); ii) information on the nature of supervision practices and iii) perceptions/opinions of those involved in the cfaes, in order to establish the concept of supervision of its stakeholders.</p><p>We followed a multiple case study design, selected and characterized five cfaes geographically dispersed in the Portuguese mainland (North, Centre, Lisbon and South), we developed instruments for opinion collection, with a sample of directors, trainers and trainees with a mixed methodology: qualitative through interview with the directors of the cfae’s and quantitative (the predominant approach) through a questionnaire applied to trainees and trainers (who do not accumulate those two functions in the period of analysis). Results of both the interviews and the questionnaires were presented by category.</p><p>The relevance of pedagogical supervision in order to present a recognized and respected<em> praxis</em> is therefore assumed, with the purpose of making it essential to the efficient and effective balance of the Education and Training system(s) in Portugal.</p>