So far I have completed the mid year work review with three of my supervisees. I realised that as supervisor, I really need to have more dialogue sessions with them to understand them as a person and also their needs. Of course sometimes it also depends on whether your supervisee is willing to share openly with you their feelings and their thoughts.
I started off with little confidence when I started my first year as a supervisor as I was new and inexperience. Guess with a few years on the job and some advice and guidance from people who are more senior than me (supervisors, colleagues and friends), I feel I have grown a little.
I was glad that during one of the sessions, one of my supervisees actually realised on his own that he needed to change his way of scolding his pupils as the old way of doing things just cannot work now with the new pupil profiles. I must say that I was a bit shocked to hear that from him directly as for the past 2 years I have been trying to make him see this point. I can say that this is really a little achievement I have obtained and I really hope that he will really work on building good rapport with his pupils.
Guess we as supervisors must have faith in our supervisees and constant encouragement and recognition must be given to them. Also, trust is an important factor in building good relationship between supervisor and supervisee. When a supervisee has faith or trust in his/her supervisor, he/she will be more open to share their thoughts, feelings and so on. Then only can the supervisor know how to help or support this supervisee :)
