The literature on instructional supervision pervasively argues that its manifest purpose is to improve instruction. However, the literature is seriously deficient in proposing any well-articulated theory of supervision, and, consequently, both the conceptual and operational bases for executing supervision's function are in dispute. Hence the…

Materials collected in this book and in Volume I (SP 003 238) are related to the Multi-State Teacher Education Project (M-STEP). They deal with program experiments and resulting directions, including guide-line type materials resulting from the project effort and items prepared by other sources as project-centered aids. Part I, "A Forward…

Materials collected in this book and in Volume II (SP 003 239) are outgrowths of the Multi-State Teacher Education Project (M-STEP), a 3-year program to strengthen the capacity of state departments of education in the development of joint responsibility between local education agencies and teacher education institutions with emphasis on laboratory…