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Download full textSmith, Stuart C.; Scott, James J. – 1990
The benefits of a collaborative work setting--including such practices as mutual help, exchange of ideas, joint planning, and participative decision-making--have been consistently confirmed by studies of effective schools and successful businesses. However, teacher isolation remains the norm. Drawing on recent research and educators' firsthand…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making
Flinders, David J. – 1989
Educational policy discussions typically exclude the teacher's voice and ignore constraints of time, energy, and resources that challenge teachers and hinder policy implementation. The case studies presented in this monograph attempt to restore the teacher's perspective. Rather than analyzing policy shortfalls stemming from teacher "apathy" or…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Change, Educational Policy, High Schools
Grabowski, Stanley M. – Administrator's Update, 1983
The rationale for and obstacles to faculty development are considered, and recommendations for administrators to follow in initiating and implementing programs are offered. Faculty development is needed for at least three important reasons: knowing a subject does not mean an individual can effectively teach it; faculty need to learn how to teach…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, College Faculty, Consultation Programs, Faculty College Relationship
Scott, James J.; Smith, Stuart C. – 1987
A growing number of educators are focusing their efforts on improving the work environment of teaching. In place of the typical school's norms and practices that isolate teachers from one another, collaborative schools have norms that encourage teachers and principals to cooperate for school improvement. Such schools are characterized by frequent…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Cooperation, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Scott, James J.; Smith, Stuart C. – 1987
This review summarizes the rapidly growing body of findings on the social and organizational environment of teaching and examines one innovation--the collaborative school--that offers promise of an organizational context more conducive to effective teaching. Chapter 1 characterizes the actual conditions under which teachers work, focusing on…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Educational Cooperation, Educational Environment
Scott, James J. – 1987
This annotated bibliography was prepared to serve as background material for the writing of the synthesis paper "From Isolation to Collaboration: Improving the Work Environment of Teaching." Items were selected to represent the range of issues that pertain to the social and organizational context of teaching. The selected materials…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Educational Cooperation, Educational Environment
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1985
Among the 12 publications reviewed in this annotated bibliography are a paper on how administrators can provide teacher support systems, the proceedings of a conference on creating conditions for effective teaching, an article on the methods principals can use to help teachers manage stress more effectively, a report of the results of a study of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Educational Environment, Educational Research
