Periodic reexamination of existing professional development school forms is good practice to ascertain whether goals are being met. Such an assessment was sparked by a request from a superintendent in a 14-year-old professional development school structure at a public college in the Northeast. This assessment revealed that although the…

This article analyzes the conceptual similarities and differences of clinical supervision, counseling, and consultation models in training of educational leaders. It also provides a conceptual model whose goal is to make supervisors aware of the implications of introducing consultation and counseling into the supervisory relationship. (TE)

Based on a theoretical paper on effective supervision (reproduced here), this study attempted to investigate superintendents' definitions of, knowledge of, assumptions about, and perceived effects of the supervisory structures and organization they have established in their school districts. Semistructured interviews of six superintendents in…

The purpose of this study was to delineate behavioral tasks which should ideally constitute the role of the local school food service supervisor and the relationship of certain variables to the perception of this role. A role model of 43 behavioral tasks was developed and incorporated in a survey form. This was used to collect data from local…

A model for educational supervisors which attempts to link management theory to learning is demonstrated. With teachers today having greater autonomy in selecting appropriate content and methods, supervisors should focus on two tasks: they should become more involved with teachers in selecting goals and become more adept in monitoring the…