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Peer reviewedBlumberg, Arthur – Administrator's Notebook, 1970
The supervisory conference appears to be a general failure because most supervisors fail to foster a helping relationship. (RA)
Descriptors: Supervision, Supervisors, Supervisory Methods, Teacher Attitudes
Download full textBlumberg, Arthur; Cusick, Philip – 1970
A study was conducted to develop and test a method for describing, in a systematic and quantifiable fashion, the nature of the interaction that takes place between a supervisor (e.g., principal or helping teacher) and a teacher. Tape recordings of 50 supervisor-teacher conferences were collected. They were analyzed by use of a 15-category…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, Supervision, Supervisors, Teacher Administrator Relationship
Blumberg, Arthur – 1983
Instructionally, schools tend to be "weakly normed" organizational systems in which teachers bring relatively little pressure upon each other to change and/or improve their classroom performance. Because teachers tolerate a wide range of behavior among their colleagues and are reluctant to offer criticism of each other, those responsibile for…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Organization, Instructional Improvement
