AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLINICAL SUPERVISION FOR DEVELOPING EFL PREP TEACHERS' TEACHING SKILLS IN THE NEW VALLEY

Abstract

This study is basically an investigation into the effectiveness of clinical supervision in developing EFL teachers teaching skills in the Egyptian context. It seeks to find answers to to these questions : I. How can a programme for training supervisors in clinical supervision be designed? This question subsumes two other sub-questions : a. What are the phases of clinical supervision which can be implemented for the development of EFL teachers' teaching skills? b. What are the teaching skills necessary for an EFL teacher? 2. To what extent can the clinical supervisory programme adopted develop EFL teachers' teaching skills ?

The designed clinical supervisory model, this study adopts, comprises three stages or steps : the planning conference, classroom observation and data collecting. and the feedback conference. The pre-post treatment observation checklists were used to collect data.

The research procedure steps can be summarized into the following : I) A questionnaire was addressed to the subjects of the study to investigate their needs. The same questionnaire with the fifteen-item list was also addressed to the subjects' EFL supervisors to assess teachers' needs. 2) A supervisees "pre-programme supervisory practices" questionnaire was delivered to get supervisees views concerning the status quo of supervisory practices. 3) A series of workshops was held for EFL supervisors to identify the clinical supervision techniques they need to develop and use so as to help improve EFL teachers' teaching skills. 4) To study the effectiveness of the clinical supervisory programme for developing EFL teachers' teaching skills, pre-post mearls of scores, gained through the observation checklists, were calculated and tabulated. A t-test was applied to calculate level of significance of the seven teaching skills investigated.