BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), the largest Indigenous nongovernmental organization in the world, has a unique teacher training program in rural Bangladesh. Almost all BRAC teacher-trainees are rural women, who must have completed at least 9 years of schooling. Trainees spend only 12 days in initial basic teacher training…

Provides a theoretical rationale for honoring differences and distinctions between performance development and appraisal. Presents a Saskatchewan case study/field test of a differentiated approach that successfully used developmental supervisory styles (facilitating, collaborating, negotiating, or directing) to match each teacher's motivation and…

Describes the process and outcomes of a collaborative self-study by five Chilean teacher educators interested in improving their supervision of student teachers, examining problems they encountered as first-time writers of a self-study report. Guidelines for scaffolding supervisees' reflectivity are included (e.g., attend to supervisors' and…

Describes a public school-university collaboration in which graduate students in education work full-time in classrooms and are included in every facet of the school day, while veteran teachers play a major role in training these interns, and serve as supervisors and lecturers at twice-weekly college seminars. (SR)

Development of a policy for annual faculty appraisal discussions at New Zealand's University of Otago is described, tracing its evolution from the traditional faculty evaluation interviews. The role accorded to faculty development is examined, and the emphasis on a collegial rather than corporate view of university administration is noted. (MSE)

The mentoring model described in this paper assumes teachers to be self-directing professionals, and adopts the formalized mentor-protege relationship as the starting point and the individual teacher's professional development as the organizing principle for the induction of teachers into the profession. The essential elements of a mentor's…

An induction system for beginning teachers should provide continued support in the instructional area and also induct the newcomer into the general operational and social milieu of the individual school. The following areas of concern in the process of teacher orientation are discussed: (1) What information is provided regarding the decision…

In this sixth report in a series about cultivating excellence in education for the purpose of training and retraining school leaders of the 1990s, nine major issues involved with revision of teacher evaluation in New Hampshire are outlined and described. After the issues are identified, a source is cited for obtaining journal articles, book…

The use of specific psychological constructs in the classroom provides a criterion for the selection of topics for construction of a course in educational psychology. A model course is outlined. Using a tutorial-supervisory format, student teachers and inservice teachers work together as experimenters testing the validity of psychological theories…

A metatheory for teacher development was used as part of a college course on teacher evaluation for supervisors. The metatheory provides a way of examining both independent and interactive effects of teacher characteristics, environmental variables (such as supervisory strategies), and task variables to link teacher development with the complexity…

The Nampa (Idaho) school board has strong written policies on administrative accountability; teacher recruitment, supervision, and evaluation; the district instructional model; and inservice training for administrators and teachers. (Author/MLF)

Physical education is becoming increasingly popular in elementary schools in Canada. Studies concerning the balancing of physical activities and intellectual subject matter, upgrading skills through inservice education, improving fitness, and project evaluation methods are reviewed. (JN)

Teacher evaluation is problematic because it combines two conflicting tasks: improving instruction and judging performance. A Boston elementary principal gradually devised an informal supervision/evaluation system involving brief, random, and frequent classroom visits followed by praise, affirmation, suggestions, and constructive criticism. Even…

Though supervision of student teaching is critical in teacher education, there are few materials for instructing university supervisors in such supervision. The paper describes a seminar at the University of New Hampshire in which supervisors meet to address supervision-related concerns. An example of one seminar that involved discussing a case…

The pyramid model of staff training provides rural school districts with a practical low-cost solution to the problem of underqualified teachers of students with severe disabilities. In this model, special-education administrators or supervisors receive training in program improvement, train teachers in their districts, and provide ongoing…