It takes many years to become proficient and successful, through an insightful supervisor or mentor the teacher and the supervisor can work through the difficulties associated first time experiences. There are four stages associated with the development of a teacher or supervisor which can span over the first five years of teaching. As the new teacher or supervisor takes their perspective roles, both will experience a survival stage, managing or consolidation phase, followed by a stage of continuity or balance, and the final stage is a maturity or mentoring of others stage, within all these stages the supervisor can give encouragement, direction, training, and overall …show more content…
The supervisor giving the teachers the ability to learn from one another, others within the field, attend seminars, expanding the growth within the facility through the advancement of personal knowledge, providing opportunities of growth and responsibility. The supervisor is a model to his/her teacher’s integrity within their own personal self reflects in their day to day involvement with their teachers. While conducting this interview I w able to see the teacher move freely back and forth through the second to the fourth stages, it is through the encouragement, the interviewer concludes, of the supervisor. While interviewing the supervisor a genuine feeling of satisfaction of accomplishment that the teachers within the program have the ability to succeed with her as their supervisor and she has given others before ample knowledge for