A Handbook of Graduate Supervision at UBC, published the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth, 1998.
Every supervisor has a preference for one or more teaching styles.
One of the most critical factors in the supervisory relationship is the match of expectations in supervision style. It may be well worth spending some time together to identify teaching styles with which both the supervisor and the student feel comfortable. Serving as sponsor , he may use his influence to facilitate the young man's entry and advancement. He may be host and guide , welcoming the initiate into a new occupational and social world and acquainting him with its values, customs, resources and cast of characters. Through his own virtues, achievements and ways of living, the mentor may be an exemplar that the prot g can admire and seek to emulate.