Generic and Specific Supervisor Competencies (CGES)
Generic and Specific Supervisor Competencies (CGES)
Madalena Cunha, Sandra Cruz, Luís Menezes & Carlos Albuquerque, 2017
They are Supervisor’s Generic Competencies: | Strongly disagree1 | Disagree2 | Dont agree / Neither disagree3 | Agree4 | Strongly agree5 |
1. Apply/promote educational principles that promote learning | | | | | |
2. Structure supervision sessions | | | | | |
3. Promote ethics in practice | | | | | |
4. Promote skills in working with”difference” | | | | | |
5. Help the trainee to manage emotions in contact with critical situations | | | | | |
6. Support supervised actions and responses with the purpose of reducing stress and maintaining emotions appropriate to situations | | | | | |
7. Detect situations of isolation or psychological suffering with negative potential for the personality or for learning | | | | | |
8. Select the degree of intervention respecting the principle of increasing automatization and accountability | | | | | |
9. Demonstrate empathy, patience, understanding and willingness to dialogue | | | | | |
10. Support the development of a critical spirit as a means of promoting continuous improvement | | | | | |
11. Adapt the supervision to the organizational context and of educational and administrative governance | | | | | |
12. Use different methods to provide accurate and constructive feedback | | | | | |
13. Be able to assess the level of competencies of the supervised | | | | | |
14. To diagnose the level of competence of the supervised | | | | | |
Supervisor’s Specific Competencies |
15. Assist the supervised to acquire and develop specific professional competences (theoretical / practical interconnection) | | | | | |
16. Incorporate direct observation into supervision (eg, co-working) | | | | | |
17. Conduct group supervision (supervised learn from each other) | | | | | |
18. Develop pedagogical supervision in specific contexts/models | | | | | |
19. Ensure management supervision | | | | | |
20. Implement supervision of interventions | | | | | |
Supervisor’s Meta-competencies |
21. Make the necessary adaptations in order to monetize the supervised’s potential to learn | | | | | |
22. Have an open mind to learn | | | | | |
23. Perform a job in order to cativate and to be with the supervised | | | | | |
24. Provide feedback without being critical | | | | | |