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)

Idea man par excellence, Lee Shulman has long set directions for research on teaching. After founding and directing the Institute for Research on Teaching at Michigan State University, Shulman, now at Stanford, continues his far-reaching investigations into the interplay of content and pedagogy and into assessments of teaching that faithfully…

Principals in a Pennsylvania district are voluntarily observing one another in order to improve their supervisory skills. Two principals jointly observe a teacher, compare their notes, label the data, conduct the teacher postconference, and then hold the principal postconference. (MLF)

Intensive Assistance is presented as a routine to be used in helping marginal teachers improve. It is a systems team approach and provides a vehicle for developing human resources. (MD)

Collective bargaining law, the unit clarification process, case law, and teacher contracts are legally defining and thereby controlling school supervisory practice in Pennsylvania. (Author)

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

To improve instruction, a cadre of assisting professionals, trained in clinical supervision techniques and philosophy, must be developed in each school system to work with teachers as colleagues in a nonevaluative, supportive role. (Author/MLF)

Describes the clinical supervision approach to teacher supervision and evaluation, and discusses the strengths of the approach. (JG)

Describes a four-stage process that supervisors can use to help teachers compare "what they preach" with "what they practice" through use of videotape equipment. (JG)

Focused team supervision is a team approach for instructional improvement. By targeting instructional needs, it promotes support in priority areas and strengthens administrator-teacher relationships. (MD)

In 20 schools, surveys of teacher perceptions about management styles and student perceptions of teachers reveals a correlation between effective teaching and "consultative-centralized" management. Consequently, 10 "commandments" for good consultative management are provided. (TE)

Goal setting is an essential part of an effective supervisory model. Suggestions are offered that have been effective in improving goal-setting activities in a variety of school settings. (Author/MLF)

Responses from 85 central office supervisors in Louisiana asked to describe actual job experiences that resulted in positive and negative attitudes toward their work. Their main sources of job dissatisfaction were interpersonal relations and school policy and administration. Sources of satisfaction were achievement and recognition. (Author/MLF)

Goodlad discusses his comprehensive plan for reforming undergraduate teacher education, abolishing state-mandated courses, instituting state examinations modeled after law and medicine exams, and creating unified faculty groups devoting primary attention to teacher education. First, some basic changes in organization, student-teacher placement and…