Assignments

** (1) Pre-Course Self-Assessment: ** As a way of assessing your leadership skills you are required to write a brief summary of who you are as a leader and the skills you have prior to beginning the supervision process. This pre-assessment summary should include your counseling background (strengths and weaknesses), an overview of your model of counseling, your experiences as a supervisor and supervisee, and specific leadership or supervisory goals for yourself for the semester. __//**Due:**//__
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** (2) Personal Leadership project: ** Students will create a PowerPoint presentation of themselves as leaders personally and professionally. They will answer questions such as, what is leadership and what does it mean to me, what are important leadership qualities, what makes a good leader, what style of leadership would best fit my personality, and who are role models that I admire and respect and why. __//**Due:**//__

** (3) Article Discussions ** - Critique one article in the counseling literature that deal with issues in leadership and supervision (i.e., peer supervision, multiculturalism, technology, time management etc). Each article should be turned in to the instructor with a one-page critique per article. Each critique should contain the following: one paragraph summarizing the article, one paragraph describing the pros and cons of the article and one paragraph describing your opinion of the article. Students will email the class and professor with questions to ponder, and lead a discussion on the article during class. **See Schedule Under __Announcements - //Due//:__**

** (4) Leadership and Supervision in Action ** – Choose a leadership or supervisory role. You can choose a Masters student or peer in counseling. You will provide supervision for that person. You need to negotiate a standard time to meet with your supervisees for the semester. Utilize log and self-evaluation methods with this student. You can also to complete the counselor evaluation form for the supervisee(s) at mid-semester and at the end of the semester. These forms should be reviewed with your trainee at mid-semester and at the end of the semester. Pre and post conference of supervision should be held with supervisees.

Present a creative presentation describing your work with your supervisee. Describe your supervision model and process. Your approach may reflect a variety of the models that we have discussed during the term. It could also be a summary of one of the approaches that you have reviewed. Also, you may have developed a view that is totally your own. Present a case presentation to the class. Discuss the process and development of your supervisee and your progress, strengths, and goals as a supervisor.

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** Counseling Group or Workshop Demonstration ** Students will take on one of the roles of the supervisor: teacher/trainee, consultant, counselor or evaluator. It is important for counselor educators and supervisors to be comfortable presenting material, conducting groups, being observed and critiqued. Students will choose a topic related to counseling and/orsupervision to present to the class. They will act as an expert as they facilitate the online discussions and teach the class for the evening. The class will evaluate and give feedback on the presentation. ** (5) Post-Course Self-Assessment: ** As a way of assessing your progress over the course of the semester you are required to write a post course assessment. In this assessment you should include a summary of your strengths and weaknesses (i.e., growth edges) as a supervisor, critical incidents from the entire quarter, your updated model or theory of supervision, the extent to which you achieved your pre-assessment goals, additional goals on which you worked, and future goals for yourself as a leader and supervisor. ** __Due:__ **
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