Describes how best to prepare camp staff to put the kids first by developing a mindset of believing in children. Gives practical suggestions to camp staff, including advice that supervisors commit themselves to identifying at least one positive counseling experience each day and acknowledging that success publicly or privately. (CDS)

This guide contains a series of multiple-choice items and guidelines to assist instructors in composing criterion-referenced tests for use in the food service supervisor component of Oklahoma's Dietetic Support Personnel training program. Test items addressing each of the following occupational duty areas are provided: human relations; nutrient…

While supervision is recognized as a crucial aspect of organized education, it has received less attention than it deserves. This book treats educational supervision as a cooperative problem-solving process, rather than an aversive inspection for staff deficiencies. Part I describes benefits of the developmental approach. Part II focuses on the…

The basic procedures for the recruitment, selection, induction, and development of administrative central office or building personnel are presented in this document. Also included are the addresses of 11 associations with which to advertise for administrative applicants, examples of interview questions and discussion statements, 10 steps to a…

Each step involved in developing an objective salary schedule for school administrators and supervisors is explained in this booklet. The schedule is based on job analysis (division of each administrative job into its component parts) and job evaluation (assignment of numerical points to indicate the relative importance of each position). The…

This article contains a supervisory development plan, which discusses the skill development and interrelationships of supervisors, cooperating teachers, and student teachers during the student teaching experience. Effective supervisory skills are necessary if the student teacher is to improve his professional work. (CJ)

Distinguishes between training and coaching, asserting that the latter focuses on the staff person as learner. Offers strategies for staff development: clarify when one is supervising versus coaching, identify issues before developing strategies, ask questions that spring from genuine curiosity, offer detailed descriptions of teacher actions,…

Includes "Outplacement: The New Counseling Frontier" (Branstead); "Interview with Bob Ward"; "Ethics of Outplacement" (Axmith); "Outplacement--The View from Over Here" (Murray); "In-House Outplacement Programs for the 1990s and Beyond" (Benedict); "Government and Outplacement"…

The academic success of the speech communications internship experience depends on the coordinated effort of all three of the key players in the internship--the intern, the site supervisor and the academic coordinator/director. For this relationship to be most effective, for the development of open channels and shared expectations, the…

The principal plays a crucial role in determining the overall effectiveness of the school; therefore, attention must be focused not only on principal preparation, but also on principal recruitment and selection. Today a greater emphasis is being placed on managerial skills in principal selection, but personal characteristics still exert a heavy…

Provides insights from experienced managers that may be useful for newly appointed library managers or directors, and details the issues they will face as supervisors. Highlights include decision making and change; motivation and delegation; general observations about management, such as coping with stresses; clarification of goals; and ethics.…

Argues for a paradigm shift to consciously developing, nurturing, and applying critical thinking skills in counseling supervision. Suggests supervisors will benefit from the intentionality of the paradigm, supervisees will benefit from the mentoring and the modeling, and clients will benefit as the supervisors progress in their delivery as…

This document shares strategies and techniques that can facilitate transfer of learning among health care workers. The guide begins with a discussion of reasons why "good" training fails and lists possible interventions for addressing the following performance factors: job expectations; performance feedback; physical environment and…

The Arizona Lesson Observation and Evaluation (ALOE) system of evaluating teaching is presented. ALOE was developed from Arizona adaptations of the Georgia Teacher Performance Assessment Instruments and, with G. Taylor's "Functional Elements Analysis of Teaching Skills" (FEATS), forms an integrated observation package which allows…

This handbook is intended for use as a general guide by student teachers and supervising teachers in planning student teaching experiences in vocational agriculture. Section A is an introduction. It discusses the student teaching experience, defines selected terms, and lists objectives specific to student teaching. Section B lists criteria for…