Describes successful teachers, managers, and leaders as those who provide growth opportunities and experiences for those for whom they are responsible, those who can develop plans to take their students or subordinates from where they are to where they ought to be. (JOW)

Quality supervision requires assessing the needs for the instructional program in vocational agriculture and carrying out appropriate activities for these needs to be fulfilled. (JOW)

Describes vocational agriculture supervisors as the bond that holds all the components together to form a stronger product than the components would be alone. Stresses the importance of team effort in building a better program, with teachers being the most important ingredient. (JOW)

Eight articles on teacher excellence present the viewpoints of supervisors, undergraduates, teacher educators, and graduate students on the qualities of effective teaching; give suggestions for improving instructional delivery and laboratory teaching; and relate Peters and Waterman's "In Search of Excellence" to vocational agriculture. (SK)