This workshop will build understanding of the framework and practices involved in supervision presented in Transforming the Education of Lawyers: The Theory and Practice of Clinical Pedagogy. We will present three key ideas:
1) Supervision involves two concurrent developmental processes, which we call the arc of client representation and the arc of student learning. Through supervision, students progress in their handling of a case or project and they progress in their learning. The processes proceed in a dynamic relationship with each other.
2) Teachers need to think about supervision from three vantage points, or frames. These are the frame of the matter, that is, the trajectory of each case or project in which the students provide representation; the frame of the student’s entire experience within the clinic; and the frame of each meeting, that is, the concrete setting of supervision.
3) While teachers can gain many insights from using arcs and frames and expand the depth and breadth of possibilities for supervisory structure and interventions, three key guideposts can help them make decisions about which to pursue. These guideposts are assessment of student capacity for lawyering and learning; the goals for each student; and the operation of time.
Through presentation, exercises, group discussion, and by conducting rounds about supervision, workshop participants will become familiar with these concepts and build comfort and facility with using them in analysis of their own experience of supervision. Participants will leave this workshop with a comprehensive strategy and tools for a more intentional approach to clinical supervision.