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Scofield, Sandra – 1979
Practical ways principals can modify and monitor their school's reading programs are suggested in this report that also presents reading theory and research results. The bulk of the report focuses on the elementary school and is divided into a short section on theory and a longer section on practice. Suggestions are given about establishing…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Peer reviewedSquires, David A.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1981
This review of the literature highlights research-based ways to improve schools and classrooms. Emphasis is on student time-on-task, effective teacher behaviors, and positive teacher supervision. (JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement
Download full textMcGee, Glenn W. – 1997
In the United States in recent years there has been extensive concern about school reform and keen interest in Japanese business-management practices. This paper presents findings of a case study that examined the role and responsibilities of two middle school principals, one in Japan and one in the United States. The study is based on Krug's…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Tri-State Educational Research Conference Proceedings (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 15-17, 1983).
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1983
These proceedings of the 1983 New Jersey-Pennsylvania-Delaware conference are arranged in five sections. Section I, "National Issues," includes summaries of (1) a panel session on the role of educational research and research funding in the new Congress; (2) a paper on "most wanted answers" to questions concerning (a) teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrator Role, Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness
Bush, Robert N. – 1984
Beginning with the observation that educators are faced with rising public expectations, declining resources, and increased public criticism, this paper describes a six-fold model for determining how staff development is operating and how it can be made to operate more effectively, in a self-renewing manner. The six dimensions consist of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
De Witt, Kilby A. – 1981
Literature is reviewed and research is proposed on the supervision of teaching. The literature review on administrative theory in business and education reveals three periods of thought: a period when theories of supervision focused on the producer (the worker or teacher), a period when theories focused on the supervisor-producer relationship, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Bailey, Gerald D.; Lumley, Dan – Educational Technology, 1991
Describes integrated learning systems (ILSs) and discusses issues facing school administrators when supervising teachers who are using these systems. Topics discussed include ILS impact on student achievement; use by regular as well as disadvantaged students; curriculum integration; research on varied-ability students; software development and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Computer Software Development
Johnson, William L.; Snyder, Karolyn J. – 1980
Developed as an assessment instrument for the Administrators-for-Change Training program, this survey of 195 administrative personnel in the Fort Worth Independent School District (Texas) identifies their priorities for training in management skills and the intensity of training desired. A synthesis of literature addressing the changing role of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators, Educational Change
Squires, David Allison – 1978
The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning of supervisors' perceptions of a positive supervisory experience. Unlike most research in supervision, which focuses on specific variables related to the outcomes of supervision, this study seeks to describe the constellation of meanings inherent in the experience of positive supervision. A…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Case Studies
Schmitt, Philip J.; And Others – 1968
Data from 258 supervisors of teachers of the deaf who replied to a self administered questionnaire yielded information on the nature of supervisory programs. Of 108 day supervisors (D), 23% were supervisors only while 77% were also either teachers or administrators. One-third reported three-fourths to full time devoted to supervision; one-third…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility
Peer reviewedDuke, Daniel L. – Educational Leadership, 1986
A professor of education returns to the elementary classroom as a teacher's aide and learns that administrators can support teachers by (1) working to eliminate fragmentation in daily routines, (2) protecting teachers from overextension, (3) focusing more on individual students, (4) promoting teacher collegiality, and (5) fashioning a school…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Interschool Communication
Hoy, Anita Woolfolk; Hoy, Wayne Kolter – 2003
This book was written with the assumption that teachers and administrators must work as colleagues to improve instruction and learning in schools. It was written to be consistent with the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards for school administrators, especially Standards 1 and 2, which emphasize a learning-centered…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Acheson, Keith A.; Gall, Meredith Damien – 1980
Intended as a text, this book emphasizes practical techniques of clinical supervision in working with teachers to help them improve their classroom teaching. It is divided into four units. The first provides necessary background for understanding techniques of clinical supervision. The next two units describe specific techniques for conducting…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Conferences
Townsend, David – 1987
This monograph focuses on the implementation process that has been a concern of school jurisdictions since the teacher evaluation policy became mandatory in Alberta, Canada, in 1985. Research has shown that school systems are adept at developing written policy but much less successful at putting that policy into effective operation. This overview…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Sherr, Paul C. – ADE Bulletin of the Association of Departments of English, 1969
A discussion of suggested techniques to be used by college department chairmen in handling teacher problems that develop annually during the second week of the semester, just before the release of the mid-semester grades, and prior to and following the final grading period, treats a number of real or imagined difficulties involving students in the…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty
