Standards of Democratic Supervision
Submitted by Stephen P. Gordon, Texas State University
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Successful supervision:
1.1 Promotes and facilitates students and teachers coming to know themselves and to be themselves
1.2
Promotes and facilitates more self-directed students and teachers as individuals and collectivities
1.3
Promotes and facilitates everyone’s transpersonal development
1.4
Promotes and facilitates a voice in policies, practices, and procedures for everyone
1.5
Encourages various types of discourse and communication events
1.6
Promotes and facilitates critical inquiry of self, context(s), and practices and fosters critique
1.7
Acts on critical input
1.8
Promotes and facilitates the elimination of coercion and intimidation
1.9
Fosters different kinds of association, in classrooms and throughout the organization
1.10
Buffers the organization and its individuals from non- or anti-democratic forces
1.11
Calls on supervisors to adopt a role as first among equals
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