This case provides principals and principal licensure candidates an opportunity to delve into the nuances of supervising teachers in content areas, which may be unfamiliar, and to explore strategies for increasing knowledge about the structures and emphases of the "Common Core State Standards" (CCSS). The case presents issues related to…

In this article, we describe development of a clinical model of teacher education connected to a community engagement commitment of the university known as the Signature Partnership Initiative. The current clinical model builds upon previously established collaborations of the College of Education and Human Development with district and school…

This article describes an alternative venue clinical experience that provides advanced literacy specialist candidates and preservice teacher candidates at a small liberal arts university context for advancing their roles and understanding of effective teaching. The article situates our conceptual and pedagogical understandings of teaching and…

This article offers interpretations of play, in a school playground, where adult regulation and surveillance framed its enactment. Children, well aware of being watched, negotiated this through various forms of play, circumscribed by, but also playing with, adult supervision. The children were also subject to the rules governing particular age…

Teacher appraisal is never an easy task, especially of teachers experiencing difficulties and failures. Nevertheless it is a requirement for good management, in our schools no less than our corporations. Forty elementary school principals in Israel described the informal methods they use to appraise teachers who are performing poorly. Most…

This article represents an example of how supervision of instruction can be an integral part of a coherent plan for district-wide reform. The author argues that instructional changes can be most effective if introduced in a system that has first put in place the personnel and structures needed to support them. The article highlights the role of…

This case was developed to use in leadership courses with specific implications for school law and supervision of instruction. Varied data are presented about the school and district for students to analyze. School instructional policies of inclusion of special needs students and supervision of teachers play a role in the course of events at…

Discipline affects students' rights and interests greatly. If there is no scientific and efficient system to standardize it, the disciplinary rights of students will be easily abused, which will not only infringe on students' rights and interests but also give rise to campus disputes. The problems of the disciplinary system in Chinese primary and…

This study examined the work of a principal of a Midwestern urban elementary school who used instructional supervision as a means of developing a learning community for adults. Implementing a variety of approaches adapted to the culture of the school, the principal crafted a process to meet the learning needs of 125 teachers and created an…

Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…

The Annehurst School (Westerville, Ohio) has become known as a school that works. More than just a success story, Annehurst has provided the setting for educational researchers to dissect classroom practices, teacher attitudes, management styles, and community-school relationships. Annehurst began in 1970 with a new open school building, a new…

In the United States there are more than ten thousand villages and towns having a population of less than 2,500. These are usually not included in the discussion of rural schools and rural school problems, nor in plans for rural school improvement. Nor are they generally included in plans for the improvement of city schools. Yet these villages…

The six subcommittees of this committee have presented somewhat detailed reports. The report of the first subcommittee, Professor Cole, chairman, deals with the influence of "Scientific societies and periodical literature" in improving mathematical instruction. The report of the second subcommittee, Professor Le Gras, chairman, deals with the work…

In an earlier publication of the Bureau of Education Bulletin, 1915, No. 47, "Digest of State Laws Relating to Public Education" an effort was made to summarize all State school laws of a general nature which were in force on January 1,1915. The purpose of the bulletin presented here is to supplement the bulletin of 1915 with a…

What is the method by which the elementary school can be brought up to twentieth-century standards? The answer is "a complete administrative and curriculum reorganization of the elementary school." The efforts of John Dewey in his highly socialized experimental school in Chicago, of Merriam at Missouri University, and of William Wirt at…