The Site Supervisor is uniquely positioned to observe the student in the relationships and tasks of ministry and to provide direct feedback and support. Your attitudes, skills, and habits in ministry will become a model for the student's own ministry.  The relationship you and the student develop may become the most crucial relationship the student has during his or her seminary experience.

The Site Supervisor is Responsible to:

• Attend the required Site Supervisor Orientation session at CTS on Wednesday , August 24th    from 11:30 a.m.-1:30p.m.
• Refrain from meeting with the MSC, although attending one meeting at the beginning of the year may be helpful for getting started.
• Meet in weekly supervisory conference with the student. 
  • Make and keep a regular schedule for the supervisory conference. 
  • Become acquainted with the student. 
  • Help the student become acquainted with the congregation, its leaders, setting, mission, values, and traditions.
  • Serve as a consultant as the student develops her/his Learning Covenant. 
  • Make sure the student understands ministry expectations.  Assess the student's ability to plan and implement appropriate ministry, then instruct, coach, and/or encourage as needed.
  • Offer the student feedback at every meeting. 
  • Allow the student to learn from your ministry practice and decisions.   Share with the student the theological, practical, cultural, personal, political concerns you consider in deciding on a particular course of action.
  • Help the student learn to reflect theologically and otherwise on her/his own ministry decisions. 
  • Teach pastoral practices.  Students need experience in and information about crucial ministerial practices such as:  weddings, funerals, baptisms, visitation, financial planning and so forth.
• Help the congregation understand the nature of the student's role.  The student inevitably lives in a dual role -- as ministry staff and as student.  When you publicly introduce or refer to her/him as a minister, you help the student and the congregation shapes that identity.  When you remind lay leaders that s/he is also a student, you help protect her/him from unrealistic expectations.
• Schedule a time to meet with the student's SCOFE Supervisor when s/he visits. 
• Complete the formal written feedback report at the end of each semester and share it with the student.

• Become familiar with important policies.
  The Field Education Policy
  Guidelines for Working Through Conflict in SCOFE  
  CTS Policy on Sexual Harassment

Continuing Education for Site Supervisors

Peer-Group Supervision
You are invited to participate in peer group supervision for Site Supervisors.  Field Education staff will serve as facilitators for the group(s).  Developing collaborative relationships for the discussion of issues that arise in your supervision of SCOFE students is the focus of the group(s).  Indicate your interest in this training by contacting the field education office.
 
Winter Workshop
January 11, 2011
9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at CTS.  Reservations are required.
 
Free Course Audit
Each Site Supervisor may audit one CTS course, without charge (but reported as 1099 income), during the year in which he or she supervises a SCOFE student. Please register as an auditor. Registration for the fall semester continues until classes begin.  Please phone Matt Schlimgen, Registrar, 317-931-2382 to register.