One challenge faced by any educational leadership program is how to develop effective entry-level school administrators. Many administrative interns receive no real administrative practice at all through their internship, and yet upon completion of the internship, they are expected to be competent administrators. The internship at Sam Houston…

This paper describes the winter quarter internship program that is part of the Urban Educational Leadership (UEL) Program of the University of Cincinnati. The internship program is designed to help students gain knowledge and understanding of urban education leadership and issues in the lives of urban youth. It aims to provide students with a…

Standards of performance of administrative interns have not been developed, so the author contends, with the result that effective evaluation cannot be made. He proposes performance objectives for such internships to reduce the uncertainty and irrelevance of what an intern learns by doing. (Editor)

Describes three approaches to performance-based preparation programs for school administrators: administrative internships, practicums involving a school management or leadership project, and practical assignments. Lists competencies a school administrator should have and advantages of performance-based education. (DMM)

The required educational administration internship at Eastern Illinois University is a rigorous program designed to promote professional development through structures integrating play or a playful attitude into its work-related elements. These structures allow interns opportunities to initiate and think clearly, experience solidarity in work…

To examine the demographic-educational characteristics of Long Island University's Department of Educational Leadership and Administration (DELA) interns, their career options during and after internship, and their perceptions of the nature and quality of the internship experience, questionnaires were mailed to 135 of the department's 1987…

To counteract the declining numbers of school business administrators and to fill a void in current programs of educational administration across the state and the nation, the State University of New York at Brockport Department of Educational Administration is implementing a new school business administration program (SBA Program) in September…

To assist educators building new programs in educational administration, the author describes six devices used at Southwest Texas State University to promote and market its educational administration division. The devices include conferences, internships, a newsletter, graduate followup, job placement, and the uniqueness of the program itself. The…

Proposes a design based on a systematic statement of behavioral objectives for the operation of administrative internships. (Author)

Describes the use of the critical incidents method in an internship program to introduce into field learning a symbiotic relationship between language and experience (or theory and practice) so that each can build on the other. (Author/IRT)

Changes in trainee selection, administrator education program structure, and the full usage of in-service school personnel and professorial staff could lead to significant and much-needed improvement in the quality of American school principals. (LH)

One Educational Leadership preparation program in a rather unexpected location, the Mississippi Delta region, has received national recognition from the Educational Leadership Constituent Council, been asked to use its program report on the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) website as a national example of excellence,…

A description is given of Project PELT (Preparation of Educational Leaders for Tomorrow), a cooperative administrative internship training program created to develop a talent pool of prospective administrators for relatively small school districts in Florida. Using a cooperative administrative internship training model, ten prospective principals…

A project at Teachers College, Columbia University, to provide personal insight into the effects of various leadership styles on the reactions of subordinates is described. (Editor)

While instructional supervisors are not required in Texas schools, many districts, especially the larger ones, do employ personnel for the express purpose of supervision of instruction. The requirements for the professional supervisor certificate are a valid Texas teacher certificate, three years' teaching experience, and completion of a…