This paper sought to determine the impact of School heads' instructional supervision on Teachers' Job Satisfaction. The participants were the Elementary School Teachers in the City Schools Division of City of Malolos, Bulacan. The study made use of standardized instruments as the primary data gathering tool. To gather significant information, two…

A teacher plays an important role in the development of the students' potential and helps to form their future. This research intends to study the degree of burnout and job satisfaction in English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers of universities and Schools in Iran, as well as their association with demographic characteristics. To measure…

Purpose: Over the past years "leadership for learning" (LFL) has become popular among educational scholars. LFL refers to the idea that effective leaders demonstrate a contextually contingent mix of instructional, transformational, and shared leadership practices that may have differential effects at various organizational levels. These…

This study focused on assessing the levels of job satisfaction among peer evaluators in a large, metropolitan public K-12 school district in Florida. Peer evaluators were defined as former classroom teachers with five or more years of teaching experience who observe and evaluate teachers with two or more years of teaching experience. Seventy-eight…

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)

Practitioners (n=910) working with maladjusted children and adults (such as delinquents or those with emotional disturbances) were surveyed. Nonsupervised practitioners were not found to be more at risk for burnout than supervised practitioners. Practitioners who were considered to be more at risk of burnout were less satisfied with their…

Explains why and how organizational development can be effective at improving performance and job satisfaction in schools and maintains that the person most likely to apply it effectively is the instructional supervisor. (JM)

Reports the findings of a study of teachers' perceptions of actual and preferred supervisory behavior in Montana public schools during the 1978-79 school year. (WD)

An NASSP survey of experienced and beginning principals examined differences in the two groups' responses to questions about time allocation, leadership roles, authority, parent and community involvement, influence groups, administrative "roadblocks," educational issues, and job satisfaction. Recommendations for orienting new principals are given.…

Findings are presented from a national survey on current supervision and evaluation practices of school psychologists. There was moderate satisfaction among the respondents about practices, although many reported they did not have enough supervision available to meet standards of the profession. Higher satisfaction with supervision was found when…

A series of supervisory behavior studies that began at Mississippi State University in 1980 are summarized. The studies were instigated because of interest in effective supervision and dissatisfaction with an indepth literature search of supervision literature. The theories disclosed were fragmentary, contradictory, and impractical for use by…

Examines two forms of clinical peer supervision so as to investigate whether peer-group clinical supervision can have a positive impact on the effectiveness of school counselors. Results indicate that the two treatments did have a slightly positive impact on job satisfaction, counseling self-efficacy, and counseling effectiveness. (RJM)

Examines the relationship of seven work-environment variables in the job satisfaction of school social workers. A multiple regression model accounted for 28% of variance in job satisfaction. Three significant variables in the model are satisfaction with supervision, difference between actual and ideal levels of service provision, and changes in…

Documents greater teacher attrition in the United Kingdom than previously realized and demands a halt to this trend. Urges increasing teacher managers' awareness of factors diminishing job satisfaction, an important factor influencing decisions to leave the profession. Presents three job satisfaction models used in business with possible…

Surveyed 267 health educators to measure job satisfaction in the profession and investigate whether individual credentialing affected overall job satisfaction and satisfaction with work, pay, opportunity for promotion, coworkers, and supervision. Results indicated satisfaction with coworkers, work, supervision, and pay, but dissatisfaction with…