Three preservice teachers of students with severe disabilities were trained on systematic instruction skills, focusing on appropriate use of positive consequences and instructional prompts. Results indicated that immediate feedback was more effective with two student teachers and delayed feedback was more effective for the third. Teaching skills…

Applies Helms's racial identity models to supervision. Explores how racial issues might be discussed, or omitted from supervision, when the supervisor and supervisee exhibit various racial identity attitudes. Concludes that supervisors who are committed to competent training must be willing to reveal and openly discuss their racial identity…

The purpose of this inquiry was to describe the benefits and limitations of using two-way audio/video conferencing technology in a preservice teacher training program located in a remote area. Two-way conferencing technology was introduced on a trial basis to assist in the supervision of practicum students and student teachers in remote university…

Research in teacher education suggests the need for alternative approaches to the traditional triad (cooperating teacher, teacher intern, college supervisor) of student teaching or teacher internship programs. This study examines the Clinical Master Teacher (CMT) Program at the University of Alabama. Study participants included 79 Clinical Master…

This study investigated inservice teachers' perceptions of the importance for instructional supervisors to possess content knowledge in the content areas that they supervise. Questionnaires were completed by 120 teachers from two elementary, one middle, and one high school, and follow-up interviews were conducted with 20 respondents. Teachers…

This study compared a measure of theoretical orientation and a measure of style orientation administered to 107 classroom teachers in graduate and undergraduate language arts methods courses, examined their responses to holistic curriculum structures, and examined the types of support that students/teachers needed to modify traditional beliefs.…

This document describes a 3-day Wisconsin vocational, technical, and adult education (VTAE) workshop on instructional supervision in vocational education that was based on the University of California at Los Angeles Teaching Model, Clinical Supervision, resulting from the work of Madeline Hunter. A five-page narrative section describes the model,…

The conceptual level of teachers was measured in relation to their preferences for support in the supervisory tasks of staff development, curriculum development, and instructional improvement. It was hypothesized that teachers at a high level of conceptual development would prefer to be more involved with others and more flexible in adapting their…

Selected findings from a major investigation of preservice clinical teacher education are presented, focusing on the supervision of 20 student teachers by their cooperating teachers. Participants completed background questionnaires, responded to five evaluation questionnaires, kept journals, audiotaped their supervisory conferences, and…

As part of an ongoing three-year investigation into the effects of declining enrollment and reduction in force (RIF) on teachers, this paper explores: (1) teacher acceptance of exclusive administrative control over performance evaluations, and (2) teacher preferences for colleague input into the evaluation process. A sample of 85 schools was drawn…

The immediate purpose of the 1971 Adult Basic Education Institute was the training or retraining of teachers in English as a second dialect or English as a foreign language to inner-city adults with an educational equivalency of eighth grade or less. The institute involved 96 participants (72 teachers and 24 supervisors) in a program sensitizing…

The immediate purpose of the 1972 Adult Basic Education Institute, a Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Language project, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was the training or retraining of teachers in English as a second dialect or English as a foreign language to inner-city adults with an educational equivalency of eighth grade or…

This paper provides the results of a survey, conducted in 1991-92, on the use of adjunct faculty in the English and business departments at all 64 campuses of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. A total of seven English department chairs and eight business department chairs responded to the survey. It was found that, on average, the…

The purpose of this paper is to inform novice science teachers and science teacher educators of the pedagogy that science teacher supervisors value. As expert practitioners, supervisors have a perspective quite different from that of both novice teachers and teacher educators. Nine inservice science teacher supervisors assessed a novice teacher's…

In response to concern among Galang refugee camp students about their ability to interact with Americans in the United States, a social language unit was developed and added to the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) curriculum. The unit addresses specific language functions, through syntactic forms, in the context of everyday social encounters…