The objective of the course described here is to provide the teaching assistants (TAs) with help, encouragement, and constructive criticism. An orientation program lasts one week and follows the following schedule: (1) On the first day, a general introduction to general university and departmental policies is given, as well as to teaching methods…

The Office of Field Studies at the University of Tennessee Knoxville has implemented a research-based, collaborative-interactive student teacher supervision program featuring the provision of objective feedback during the preobservation conference, observation, and postobservation conference. (CB)

Student teacher supervisors can use the Effective Supervision Guide to facilitate the organization of data generated from monitoring student teachers. The guide's components include: baseline performance; behaviors needing remediation; remediation strategies; evaluation criteria; and commencement and completion dates for remediating behaviors. (CB)

The substantial increase in foreign graduate students who become teaching assistants has necessitated increased supervision and training, especially in communication skills, teaching methods, learning styles, and discussion group leading. (MSE)

Explores and examines the theoretical roots of supervisory practice with regard to field experiences in teacher education. Contends that most approaches to supervision are rooted in paradigms reflecting the perspectives of positivism, phenomenology, and critical theory. (MLF)

Drawing on literature concerning department chairs' role as either administrators (line personnel) or teachers (staff personnel), this essay concludes that both roles are important and that well-developed human relations skills and managerial skills are equally necessary. (MJL)

The student teaching program offered through the Field Experience Office of the Department of Physical Education at Indiana University combines an advising system, placement, follow-up systems, and departmental student evaluation. The program begins early in the career of a preservice teacher and ends with the teacher in the classroom. (FG)

The authors' work at the Centre for English Teacher Training at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest is described through an interview. Their efforts in designing a training course for foreign language teachers who will become supervisors are detailed. Core readings for cotrainers are appended. (Contains three references.) (JP)

Weak teachers are too often transferred; tenure is bargained rather than earned; and good teachers go unrewarded. Human-resources practices used by businesses and colleges (peer review, merit pay, a revamped work year, and marketplace pay for teachers in shortage areas) need to be revisited. (MLH)

Investigated whether university teaching assistant (TA) training programs utilized transfer of training principles, examining facilitating and inhibiting factors within the work environment of TAs in training, supervisor and peer support, and differences in perceptions of these factors according to TA characteristics. Certain transfer of training…

Formal supervision of agricultural education teachers by state supervisors began with the 1917 Smith-Hughes Act. Supervision has evolved from the "iron fist" to the consultant. Some felt that supervisors usurped the role of teacher educators. By the end of the 20th century, supervision had devolved to local administrators and vocational…

Linking teaching portfolios to the scholarship of teaching can help the teaching profession in general (and communication departments in particular) and can help expand the ways to document what teachers do to help students learn. E. Boyer's report "Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate" provides a structure and…

This textbook, intended for graduate students in introductory educational supervision courses, draws on the research on effective schools, teacher and adult development, and supervisory practice, as well as on direct practical experience, to provide information that supervisors can use to help their schools be more successful. The term…

The paper examines four management models that could be adopted for use by teacher supervisors. Specifically, the models discussed deal with communication, the Managerial Grid, planning, and the decision-making/problem-solving process. The communication model examines four interaction approaches: developmental, controlling, relinquishing, and…

Protocol materials are being used effectively as a teacher training device with preservice interns at numerous institutions. Here two suggestions for use of protocols at the inservice level are discussed. (Author/RK)