- Advocate and mentor
- Good communicator (articulate and a good listener)
- Strong character (courageous, honest, trustworthy, kind, understanding, patient, emphathetic...)
- Experienced "with practical, applicable knowledge" (variety of strategies and useful suggestions)
- Available and committed
- Organized
- Effective inter/and intrapersonal skills
- Student centered
- A reflective practioner and models such strategies for students
- Visionary (sees the big picture
- Encourages risk taking (willing to change and try new things-mistakes are o.k.)
- Combines theory and practice
- Understands learning styles and how they affect the learning/supervision process
- Sees the potential in students and their possibilities
- Encourages students to develop a unique professional identity (Master's of own destiny)
- Provides positive and appropriate feedback
- Understands relationship between assessment and evaluation (formative and summative)
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