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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
Download full textLucio, William H., Ed. – 1969
This document contains seven papers which examine the functional and organizational roles of the school supervisor in the context of new social, organizational, and professional demands on the school. The papers were presented at a 3-day symposium which focused on three related themes. The first theme, "The Supervisor: New Demands, New…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Adult Learning, Change Agents
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
Schmidt, Laurel – 2002
This book provides a tool to help school administrators take control of their lives, detailing creative strategies for surviving the daily grind while honing a vision of successful schools. Sixteen chapters examine: (1) "Surveying the Terrain: Getting Smarter About the Politics of Education"; (2) "The Vision Thing: Getting Smarter…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Career Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Harris, Alma – 2002
This paper takes a distributed perspective on leadership practice in schools. Drawing upon empirical evidence from two contemporary studies of successful school leadership and the international research base concerning distributed leadership, the paper argues that leadership practice is a distributed entity that is mediated through human…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Educational Improvement
Lyman, 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
Browne, Margaret C. – 1972
Although the booklet is intended to be a guide for first-time supervisors of paraprofessionals, it is applicable to any supervisory situation. Subjects covered include kinds of leadership, self-evaluation, interviewing job candidates, employee training and evaluation, morale and job satisfaction, basic human needs, the nondirective approach to…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Communication (Thought Transfer), Employer Employee Relationship
Reynolds, Annie – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
Rural supervision is a comparatively new field in education. Therefore its method and practice are not definitely formulated; and supervisors at work, as well as those educators who are formulating courses in the subject, have learned and are learning in part through their own experience and that of others. For this reason they are eager to…
Descriptors: Rural Education, School Supervision, Rural Schools, Supervisors
Valerien, Jean – 1989
Written with regard to the cultural context of French-speaking African countries, this document begins by describing the administrative role of the school principal. Questions related to each of 56 key words associated with educational administration are offered, and the limitations and freedom provided by administrative regulations is discussed.…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Education, Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility
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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
Chang, Kunlun; And Others – 1992
Changes in schools resulting from the large social changes following World War II provide many new challenges for the educational administrator. This document reports on several independently conducted studies and research discussions in the areas of curriculum, student characteristics, and risk management in order to better understand these…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Black Students
Leak, Lawrence E.; And Others – 1990
The emergence of LEAD Centers, Principals' Centers, and other similar principal support efforts are an acknowledgement of the demanding professional requirements placed upon principals. This document provides an easy-to-use reference listing of resources identified by the Maryland Commission on School-based Administration and the Maryland LEAD…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Communication Skills
