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Download full textLyman, Lawrence – 1987
This paper examines factors that promote and diminish teacher trust in the instructional supervision process. Trust--key to the supervisor's success in helping teachers change behaviors--is correlated with such factors as confidentiality, approach to dealing with complaints, and the development of collaboration and participation in supervisory…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Cooperative Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
McBeath, Gerald A.; And Others – 1983
To gather information about local Alaskan schooling, researchers surveyed 327 rural school site administrators to determine their backgrounds, school activities, expectations of student performance, perceptions of school-community relations, and perceptions of the roles of actors in school governance. Results of the questionnaire indicated that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role
Gorsin, John – 1979
This model of teacher supervision was designed to improve instruction in the Aspinwall Elementary School in the Fox Chapel School District, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The project sought to accomplish three things: improve the achievement level of underachieving students, increase teacher instructional effectiveness, and change the teachers'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Conferences
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Drawing inspiration from Shulman's (1986) construct of pedagogical content knowledge, we propose that leadership content knowledge is a missing paradigm in the analysis of school and district leadership. After defining leadership content knowledge as that knowledge of academic subjects that is used by administrators when they function as…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Qualities
Tye, Kenneth A., Comp.; Costa, Arthur L., Comp. – 1986
This monograph guides administrators in developing policies that lead to improved supervision of instruction. Chapter 1, "The Mystery of Effective Teaching," by Barbara Benham Tye, focuses on improving schools' work environment through the supportive methods of clinical supervision. Arthur L. Costa describes five phases of the process…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Board of Education Policy
Sergiovanni, Thomas J. – 1985
This essay proposes a responsive research agenda to examine relationships between supervisory inquiry and practice on one hand, and teaching and learning on the other. The agenda first calls for policy-oriented research that examines the implications of state-mandated educational changes on supervisory practices and commensurate teaching and…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Bureaucracy, Career Ladders
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1983
This annotated bibliography comprises 13 items in the ERIC system concerning improving teacher effectiveness. Items cited discuss strategies including an objectives-based instructional program combined with mastery learning, teacher self-assessment techniques, administrators' role in helping teachers adopt more effective practices, improving…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction
Bird, Thomas D.; Little, Judith Warren – 1985
This study examined instructional leadership in eight diverse secondary schools in four urban, suburban, and small-city school districts in one western state. The aim was to gain access to a set of schools that provided both variety in instructional leadership and diversity in school size, organization, grade level, faculty and student…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Case Studies, Decentralization
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1982
Intended as a reference volume for elementary and secondary school administrators, this annotated bibliography is divided into 20 chapters on topics of current interest in the educational field. A total of 307 annotations of documents and journal articles that have been indexed in the ERIC system are included. The materials selected for inclusion…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Attendance, Declining Enrollment
Thompson, John A.; Chock, Mona K.O. – 1976
Part of a 13-volume series designed to be used as a group inservice or a self-learning system to train school administrators and counselors for their role in career education, this first section (5.1) of module 5 (implementation--for administrators) contains readings and activities on the major components in a system of observation and…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 1998
The kit is designed to assist Peace Corps language instruction coordinators in countries around the world in understanding the principles underlying second language training and organizing instructional programs. It is intended primarily as a resource library, with materials organized to ensure flexibility of use. It consists of eleven sections…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Techniques, Continuing Education, Curriculum Development
Ellis, Thomas I. – Research Roundup, 1986
Included in this summary analysis of three journal articles and two documents on teacher evaluation are reports that touch on difficulties facing school officials in developing a teacher evaluation system and suggestions for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of an evaluation system. The first article, by Susan S. Stodolsky, challenges…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Concurrent Validity, Cooperative Planning, Decision Making
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
This bulletin contains abstracts of the addresses delivered at a two-day conference of State and county rural-school supervisors in the Southeastern States, called by the United States Commissioner of Education, at Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee, December 14 and 15, 1925. Abstracts were prepared from notes or manuscripts…
Descriptors: Educational History, Rural Education, Counties, Rural Schools
