ABSTRACT
This chapter covers a variety of the student supervisor’s tasks and responsibilities in regard to teaching. There are many self-directing students who require from the supervisor little more than guidelines to content and the standards they are expected to reach. Problems with authority constitute a major obstacle to learning for some students. Both supervisor and students may find advantages in participating in a student unit although there are some disadvantages as well. Several students assigned to one agency may have many of the advantages of a student unit or may remain quite isolated from one another, depending on the arrangements made by the supervisors involved. The difficulties in trying to categorize students must be apparent to anyone who supervises in social work. Careful planning must, of course, precede the placement of a handicapped student. It discusses a variety of factors that may affect teaching students in the field.
