Teaching Practice Supervision: bridge between theory and practice

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Abstract
Courses in teacher education commonly resemble comparable courses in higher education. They are academic and rarely related to practical teaching. Practical teaching rarely draws on theoretical principles but comprises information and demonstration by experienced teachers and supervisors from training institutions. This paper argues for a reconceptualisation of supervision that unifies the teaching of psychology and student teaching practice in a practical psychopedagogy. It also argues that supervisors drawing on a practical psychopedagogy are key people to effect a rapprochement between psychological theory and practical teaching in teacher training and training generally and also to develop an investigatory pedagogy that could yield new information and insight into human learning and teaching. The paper describes courses of teacher and supervisor training in which practical teaching by student teachers and supervision by experienced teachers are integrated through the use of principles from psychology of human learning.

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