Businesses are finding that positive reinforcement is a useful tool in management and supervision. However, there are few reports of the systematic use of positive reinforcement by educational administrators and supervisors. (Author/MLF)

Tennessee Tech offers a graduate level analysis and supervision of teaching course that includes a practicum experience for prospective and practicing teacher supervisors and mentors. This practicum coincides with an undergraduate pedagogy practicum in order to provide opportunities for students to enhance supervisory and mentoring skills. The…

The evaluation of teachers to see whether they meet state competency standards or should be considered for merit pay is usually limited to making sure they achieve a minimum level of performance and does not involve determining how their performance can be improved if they exhibit higher levels of competence. In Georgia's Fulton County, Mountain…

A cooperative professional evaluation system developed by the Southwest Cook County (Illinois) Cooperative Association for Special Education is described. The development of the system is outlined including writing of generic and specific job descriptions and determination of a philosophy of evaluation which identified the following purposes:…

Procedures used in six Australian primary schools for the induction of beginning teachers to their profession are summarily described. Induction into the schools was in each case a cooperative process which was much more than an orientation period and normally involved one person being most closely associated with the new teacher, but in which the…

Emporia State University College of Education's recognition of the strong impact university supervisors and cooperating teachers have on student teachers compelled it to develop a training program to prepare supervisory personnel in the use of various supervisory strategies. (Author/CB)

Review of empirical research evaluating use of video technology in teacher training situations focuses on the demonstration and feedback phases of microteaching, discrimination training, and videotape feedback for teachers in actual school classrooms. The value of video technology in clinical and peer teacher supervision and naturalistic…

Describes the Peer-Assisted Leadership (PAL) program for school principals of the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. Summarizes (1) history of the program, (2) a description of training, (3) results of the first year's work with principals, (4) PAL's continuing efforts, and (5) future directions. (SA)

A study of three schools practicing shared governance indicates that supervision and teacher empowerment are compatible concepts. The keys to success are patience and administrators' philosophical commitment to shared decision-making. Includes three references. (MLH)

A shortage of elementary school music teachers and expanding school music programs has prompted school districts to make multiple school assignments of music teachers. Examples of scheduling solutions are cited. (MLF)

In 1985, the Medicine Hat School District in southern Alberta, Canada, initiated the Model for Teacher Supervision and Evaluation to change school district culture and promote teachers' professional development and empowerment. The change mechanism was clinical supervision--a process allowing teachers to determine and achieve their own goals. The…

The supervision model adopted by the Minot (North Dakota) Public School District Board of Education provided the skeletal foundation for the Magic City Campus instructional growth plan. By enhancing this framework with both an instructional model and indepth coaching, teacher growth and effectiveness naturally evolved. Principals striving to be…

Teach for America, the recent private reincarnation of the 1960s Teacher Corps, sends college graduates to teach for two years in understaffed schools. One TFA participant warns those planning President Clinton's national service program that eight weeks of training is insufficient to train competent teachers. Unless teachers are smartly selected,…

Describes three-step process principals can use to collect and compile student test data from teachers on a regular basis: Asking for test data; deciding what to ask for; and supervising the data-reporting process. Asserts that data-collection process will benefit teachers' classroom practices and student achievement. (PKP)

Formative teacher evaluation promotes teacher growth by illuminating some areas of difficulty and creating a viable course for change. The goal is to help teachers become more effective. Since 1991, the SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE) has supported selected school systems in their attempts to design and implement formative…