A brief description of a remediation and dismissal process that ensures due process for employees while encouraging principals to adhere to a strong code of professional and ethical conduct. (Author/MLF)

Today's instructional leader must possess skills in four critical areas: curriculum development, clinical supervision, staff development, and teacher evaluation. (Author/JM)

Outlines four observational tools which child care administrators can use for evaluating their caregivers. (MP)

Supervision and evaluation, contained within a due process framework, are beneficial to both the teacher and the educational administrator. (LH)

A set of departmental promotion guidelines ensure that medical faculty understand what is expected and what will be evaluated when promotion is considered. An approach to setting faculty evaluation standards, used at Cornell University Medical College Department of Psychiatry, and its application to primary areas of faculty work are outlined.…

School district administrators and university professors developed "SAM--Supervisors as Mentors," a program for supervising teachers' work with student teachers. Intensive assistance is offered in the clinical supervision cycle (preconference, observation, and postconference) once a day for the first two weeks. (MLF)

Suggests a model for assessing student teachers based on dimensions of military leadership. The article recommends modifying nine military competencies for assessing leadership behavior: communication, supervision, teaching and counseling, team teaching development, organization and management proficiency, decision making, planning, management…

This article offers suggestions for videotaping classroom instruction in order to allow teachers to conduct self-evaluation through self-observation and to develop hypotheses regarding the functional relationship of their behavior to that of their students. Methods of defining, scoring, and graphically displaying behaviors are explained, and…

Examines one English department in the midst of establishing an independent writing major and program. Analyzes situational constraints in the context of professional concerns regarding tenure and in current disciplinary concerns regarding recognition of computers and composition labor. Argues for establishing tenure and promotion guidelines that…

Very few people would disagree that the work of the principal is multifaceted, hectic, and fraught with uncertainties, and given the ongoing press for accountability, the very work of the principal as instructional leader is shifting to ensure "results." There are myriad day-to-day activities that take principals away from the important work of…

Advantages of using classroom observation as another measure of teacher performance include: (1) It is applicable to jobs where performance measures based on outcomes are hard to develop or where outcomes cannot be assigned to an individual person; (2) It ensures that important aspects of performance that go beyond measured outcomes, such as how…

This handbook presents findings of a 2-year study that examined the role of the substitute teacher. Findings showed that the problems with substitute-teacher programs were a result of nonmanagement rather than mismanagement. The book offers recommendations for designing, implementing, and maintaining quality substitute-teacher programs. The first…

The monograph presents the guidelines of the Georgia Department of Education for annual evaluation of school speech-language pathologists (SLP). A combination of assessment methods is recommended including observation and review of records. The philosophy and purposes of the SLP evaluation is briefly outlined and includes identification and…

In an effort to explain the Staff Accountability Plan for New Mexico's schools, two pamphlets were developed. Designed to address the issue of teacher accountability and certification, pamphlet 1 presents the three provisions of the New Mexico Staff Accountability Plan. The plan requires: (1) a written basic skills assessment as part of teacher…

In outline agenda form, this guide addresses the issue of training and supervising graduate students teaching the basic undergraduate speech course in university speech departments. The sections are as follows: (1) Introduction of staff and participants; (2) Rationale for assuring quality and standardization in the basic course by systematically…