Unit rationale, description and aim
Graduates of programs in Supervision need to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in this discipline and demonstrate a capacity to evaluate the various ways in which their personal development impacts upon and contributes to their professional roles. In this unit, students will explore, demonstrate and integrate the professional skills necessary for practitioners in professional supervision. They will learn to maintain confidentiality as well as how to handle mandatory disclosure issues or other critical situations. They will also practise the navigation of cultural, religious or political differences along with language difficulties. Participants will learn to engage constructively with the additional challenges to the supervisory process that emerge when using information and other technologies. The unit aims to assist supervisors from a range of multidisciplinary fields to develop intentionally their skills and expertise in professional supervision.
Learning outcomes
To successfully complete this unit you will be able to demonstrate you have achieved the learning outcomes (LO) detailed in the below table.
Each outcome is informed by a number of graduate capabilities (GC) to ensure your work in this, and every unit, is part of a larger goal of graduating from ACU with the attributes of insight, empathy, imagination and impact.
Explore the graduate capabilities.
Implement a supervisory process with a new supervi...
Learning Outcome 01
Participate fruitfully in their own supervision an...
Learning Outcome 02
Apply critically reflexive reflection for effectiv...
Learning Outcome 03
Content
Topics Include:
- Creating a multi-dimensional supervisory framework;
- Reflective analysis and theoretical integration of current supervisory practice;
- Creativity and growth in Supervision: alternative approaches to expand supervisory stances and resources;
- Personal and Professional Development: critical areas, general and context specific, for effective supervisory practice and process;
- Individual and co-supervision: principles and practice, models and issues;
- Collegial resources and processes: maintaining forms of collegial interaction; resilience;
- Working with difference: intercultural, theological and contextual issues;
- Supervisory application with reflective review and integrative evaluation process;
- Working with resistance and impasse situations in supervisory process, managing conflict;
- Current issues in supervisory practice for participants: theoretical integration and consideration of alternative approaches;
- Areas of ongoing realities for supervision: mandatory supervision issues, online methods;
- Working with supervisory mistakes and creating redemptive pathways in supervisory process;
- Supervisory application using current examples, drawing together current supervisory practice, learning opportunities,
- Theoretical and professional resources;
- Celebration and transformation in the supervisory process.
- Lifelong learning.
Assessment strategy and rationale
The assessment strategy of this unit has been designed to enable students to demonstrate the values, knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to supervisory practice, as well as their capacities to draw lessons insightfully from real situations in which they have engaged.
All assessment tasks are designed for students to show their achievement of each learning outcome and graduate attribute. They require students to demonstrate the nexus between their learning, dispositions, and spiritual practice, and the evidence on which this demonstration is based.
Overview of assessments
Hurdle Task - Attendance Students are required t...
Hurdle Task - Attendance Students are required to attend all classes unless absence is appropriately justified. Students whose absence is unjustified may be required to repeat the unit.
0%
Three videos (50 minutes each): Recording of seq...
Three videos (50 minutes each): Recording of sequential supervision sessions with a new supervisee (i.e. a different supervisee to the one who participated in Field Unit A). This task is designed to enable students to apply the values, knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to supervisory practice.
50%
Critical reflection on the videos (3000 words): ...
Critical reflection on the videos (3000 words): This task is designed to enable students to engage more deeply than previously in reflective practice in dialogue with relevant literature and feedback from their own supervisor.
50%
Learning and teaching strategy and rationale
This unit involves 150 hours of focused learning, which reflects the standard volume of learning for a unit in a university qualification of this Australian Qualifications Framework type.
The unit is normally offered in scheduled online mode, a way that blends the use of online delivery of learning materials and activities that can be undertaken synchronously and asynchronously. This means that students can undertake some learning activities on their own at times that do not depend on the availability of others, and other learning activities that are undertaken interactively with other students and teaching staff at the same time. Using scheduled online delivery means that students do not have to be at the same place as each other, but can interact remotely.
In order to benefit from this mode of learning, students need to be independently motivated. Units offered in the course normally follow a cycle: students complete preparatory activities before meeting together; in webinars, students work collaboratively with each other and the lecturer to clarify, extend and apply what they have learned; and after each collaborative session, students reflect critically on their personal experience and observations in light of materials covered in the unit. As the cycle is repeated, students bring new understandings to bear on further issues and ideas, so that each cycle of learning deepens the one before. Students co-construct a supportive and encouraging learning community through their active participation in classes as well as through offline engagement, such as through discussion boards.
As this unit involves rehearsing helping skills that will be utilised professionally in one-on-one engagement with future clients, attendance at all webinars is mandated to ensure practice is supervised.