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Reflective supervision involves a process where supervisors support staff members in exploring and understanding their feelings, reactions, and experiences related to their work. Through reflection, professionals gain insight into their practice, enhancing their effectiveness to support families and children.
This collection features resources to learn about and implement reflective supervision in early childhood programs.
Explore strategies you can use in individual reflective practice and reflective supervision. Taking the time to reflect—to stop and think about what has happened, what is happening, and what should happen next—is essential to creating and maintaining strong relationships with families and peers. Reflective supervision is an opportunity to provide structured support for staff who want to build skills and enhance their work with families.
Learn how to identify infant and toddler staff who are excited about or willing to increase their comfort with outdoor play. Find strategies for addressing adult discomfort or inexperience with the outdoors.
Discover how reflective supervision supports education staff in understanding young children's behaviors and how to address them effectively.
Supervisors and Managers can use this resource as a guide to support staff in using a strengths-based approach in their work with families.
Learn about the pivotal role supervisors play in a Head Start or Early Head Start program with a home-based option. Explore ways they enhance the quality of home visiting and group socialization services.
Find ways supervisors support home visitors through challenging situations. Learn how they help manage relationships and promote positive outcomes for children and families.
Find out about reflective supervision, a mutual process in which a home visitor and supervisor learn together about the child, family, home visitor’s work, and the relationships involved.
Use this tool to reflect on your program’s relationship-building practices and plan for next steps in supporting families experiencing homelessness.
Consider how you might enhance what you already do to partner with families experiencing homelessness. Use this tool to reflect on your program’s relationship-building practices and plan for the next steps in supporting families experiencing homelessness.
Providing staff with reflective supervision can improve staff wellness by addressing barriers to wellness, improving job satisfaction, and strengthening relationships throughout the program.
HeadStart.gov
official website of the Administration for Children and Families
