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Peer reviewedRice, Alan – Urban Education, 1983
In the Australian state of Victoria, control of academic curriculum has shifted from the bureaucrats to locally based teacher networks and statewide associations which limit subject scope and teaching styles. However, curriculum has not changed significantly, indicating that institutional reforms do not necessarily result in radical alterations of…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum, Foreign Countries
McMillen, Liz – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
The substantial increase in foreign graduate students who become teaching assistants has necessitated increased supervision and training, especially in communication skills, teaching methods, learning styles, and discussion group leading. (MSE)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Communication Skills, Foreign Students, Graduate Students
Peer reviewedCunningham, William G. – Urban Review, 1983
In addition to resulting in emotional and physical illnesses, teacher burnout manifests itself in job turnover and absenteeism, reduced job satisfaction, mental and physical detachment, and reduced performance. Solutions for reducing burnout include job enrichment or redesign, greater rewards for positive performance, teacher conditioning,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Literature Reviews, Social Support Groups
Peer reviewedBrieschke, Patricia A. – Urban Review, 1986
Discusses the following five methods, used by principals, to cope with teachers' educational mistakes: (1) deployment of other teachers as observers; (2) detente--using other teachers to help the troubled teacher; (3) determination that there is cause for dismissal; (4) evaluating and documenting the teachers as unsatisfactory; and (5) formal…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Competence, Due Process, Educational Quality
Peer reviewedMcNeely, R.L. – Urban Education, 1983
Discusses various symptoms of burnout and argues that its main cause among teachers is the organizational pattern of public schools. Identifies teachers' noninvolvement in decision making, performance guidelines, routinization, and the division of labor as stress inducing administrative features that should be changed in order to reduce burnout.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Organizational Climate
Peer reviewedWaite, Duncan – Urban Education, 1992
Anthropologically informed examination of instructional supervisors and supervision could reveal functions beyond counseling, teaching, and training. A literature review highlights a cultural dimension of supervision. An ethnography of supervision would elucidate the roles of supervisors just as training supervisors in ethnography could help them…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Educational Anthropology
Grittner, Frank M., Ed. – 1980
The following articles on second language learning are collected here: (1) "Second-Language Study: Historical Background and Current Status" by Kenneth D. Chastain; (2) "The Value of Second-Language Learning" by Gilbert A. Jarvis; (3) "Psychology and Linguistics as Bases for Language Pedagogy" by Wilga M. Rivers; (4) "Differentiation of Language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Futures (of Society)
Atlantic Inst. of Education, Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada). – 1981
Nine conference papers examine educational administration in Canada and England. Three papers present the results of survey research on rural principals' reactions to decentralized budgeting in Saskatchewan (Canada), the impact of local government reforms on local educational services in England, and the effects of principals' leadership styles on…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Educational Administration, Educational Objectives, Educational Research
Des Moines Public Schools, IA. Dept. of Evaluation and Research. – 1982
Collected in this report are the Des Moines, Iowa, school district's goals and division objectives for 1982-83 and building objectives for fulfilling these goals. A prefatory statement by the superintendent describes a district planning and management system of continuous goal and objective setting combined with evaluation of progress in improving…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Board of Education Policy, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Evaluation
Wilson, Morris D.; Baldwin, Robert – 1983
As a function of Des Moines, Iowa's, planning and management system for improving educational services through coordinated, continuous planning and evaluation at all levels from superintendent to classroom teacher, this report measures the success of district administration and individual schools in achieving stated objectives for 1982-83. Five…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Board of Education Policy, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Evaluation
