Teachers assigned to teach on an emergency credential are severely challenged by inadequate understanding of classroom management techniques and instructional methods. Also, California's Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Program is not available to these teachers. This article outlines criteria for principals to include in an inservice…

Whereas much research attention has been given to the induction stage of beginning schoolteachers worldwide, there is a limited knowledge base on the experiences of new kindergarten teachers at this stage, despite the different work tasks and contexts of both groups of teachers. Based on semi-structured interviews with 15 Israeli kindergarten…

Although much education supervision literature seems applicable to supervisory practice at all schooling levels, each level has differences, as well as similarities, regarding supervisory context, supervisor roles and responsibilities, and supervisor and staff member characteristics. This paper describes and compares supervisors and supervision at…

Discusses barriers to effective teacher supervision that unwittingly protect and tolerate poor performers. Presents a template for writing legally defensible disciplinary memoranda that document efforts to help teachers improve performance and justify termination, if necessary. Discusses accountability tools, including performance indicators…

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…

If evaluation's purpose is improving teaching rather than prescribing teaching effectiveness, then supervisors must find ways to communicate that purpose and to motivate teachers to seek improvement. This article reviews relevant literature, focusing on summative and formative evaluation, philosophical concepts espoused by neo-traditionalists and…

Builds on Duncan Waite's supervisory mission (improving the total teaching/learning situation) by focusing on the dyadic interaction between positively oriented supervisors and the teachers they supervise. Action dimensions vital to accomplishing change include power/dependence relationships, social influences, and effective communicator styles.…

Preschool programs for children with and without disabilities housed in public school settings have increased dramatically over the last decade. This study examined the perspectives of preschool teachers about who provides instructional supervision for their preschool programs and the behaviors these individuals use to influence their…

This paper describes the main gains resulting from student teachers' first contact with the teaching profession. The Inventory of Experiences and Perceptions at Teaching Practice (IEPTP) was used to assess the range of experiences of a sample of 224 student teachers on five dimensions of teaching practice: (1) learning and professional…

The purpose of this project was to help teachers improve their classroom instructional skills by providing a teacher support system based on the clinical supervision model. Participating teachers and administrators came from Region VI of the District of Columbia Public Schools. Participants received training and practice in the clinical…

Comparison of perceptions of 41 supervisors and 39 teachers of visually handicapped students concerning time spent on six different teacher job components (travel, administration, direct instruction, preassessment consultation, postassessment consultation, in-service training) found no significant differences between the two groups. (Author/DB)

The definition and theory of clinical supervision are discussed. (Author/MLF)

The principal has a duty to assess the worth (make a summative evaluation) of the various parts of the organization, including teachers, and the further responsibility for making provision for the formative evaluation of the teaching staff with a view to assisting them in their personal and professional growth. (Author)

In a study of 29 aspiring administrators from the University of Colorado preparation program, only 10 percent demonstrated adequate instructional conferencing abilities. Identified problems included underanalysis, poorly focused strategizing, lack of reflective discussion, and failure to pursue the conference objective. Recommendations and…

Describes events surrounding grievances filed against a curriculum coordinator in a New Jersey school district from 1987 to 1989. Although most grievances were found in the supervisor's favor, teachers succeeded in questioning some practices and limiting others. Disentangling the supervision-evaluation knot is impossible; because supervision is…