This article focuses on the supervision provided during the practical part of teacher education. We are interested in what happens in the interaction between the student and the supervisor and how supervisors impart their professional know-how to their students.

Nearness becomes a collective main category concerning imparting knowledge. We extracted five categories from our material where nearness is visible.

In teachers work in the classroom, the principle of nearness is a way to control what is taking place; sort of a didactic principle. The work of the supervisor may be seen as a clear illustration of this important didactic dimension.