Describes a supervisory technique (the "O Cycle") based on observing and critiquing teachers, and a way that a small group of principals can create its own in-service program to acquire the skills required to use the technique. (IRT)

One way for principal interns to reflect on their own learning during the internship experience is through the use of written journals, which can also provide their supervisors with valuable information regarding the interns' professional growth as well as the effectiveness of the internship program itself. However, the organization and assessment…

The purpose of the study was to determine if using selected supervisory techniques would contribute to the success of beginning teachers of vocational agriculture. Found that vocational agriculture teachers, supervisors, administrators, and teacher educators should consider using more effective supervisory strategies and conduct further research…

Interviews with 15 superintendents and principals in Winnipeg found general agreement on the positive effects of principal transfer and on the procedures followed in the transfer process. A sequence of 11 common procedures is presented as a guide to planning principal transfer. (SV)

As instructional supervisors for their buildings, principals must know how and when to supervise teachers so that the mutual goal of instructional improvement can be attained. This study investigates the differences between public junior high school teachers' perceptions of principals' actual supervisory behaviors and their preferences for…

Although there has been a paucity of research on what effective secondary school principals do, two recent studies offer some clues. A 1983 report by William Firestone and Bruce Wilson asserts that a high school principal may best be able to influence the school through bureaucratic and cultural linkages. Bureaucratic linkages are formal enduring…

A supervisory model identifying profile, action, response, and analysis as sequential steps is outlined. Principal and teacher develop a profile of skills the teacher wants to improve and an action plan for realizing the profile. Students and principal provide feedback, and teacher and principal evaluate growth. (MJL)

In clinical supervision, the teacher is helped to identify and concentrate on a limited number of specific skills, the supervisor focuses on a manageable task for data collection, and together they evaluate results. (Author)

The influence of supervision as an administrative control mechanism used by superintendents to direct the work of high school principals and the nature of administrative control in schools was studied for 12 principals. Supervision, measured by superintendent visits, was generally perceived as light, and principals felt they were afforded…

Reflective practice in professional education stands in sharp contrast to the assumptions underlying the more commonly used traditional supervisory models. This paper presents findings of a study that examined administrator use of a reflection-on-action process to build a climate of reflection and dialogue. Methodology included a case study of one…

Following a classroom observation, an audio tape was made of a supervisory conference between the principal or other supervisor and the teacher. Two analyses of the principal's conference skills were then added to the tape together with editorial comments on the analyses, and the tape was then returned to the principal. At the time of the report,…

Before engaging in supervisory conferences with teachers following lesson observations, administrators should plan strategically by considering the psychological context of the conference and by reviewing carefully the data on the teacher's performance. (PGD)

Principals' supervisory and evaluation practices are assessed in this study. Mailed questionnaires to all K-12 principals in a county within the Detroit metropolitan area yielded an overall 94 percent response rate. Principals were asked for numbers of total faculty, faculty observed, minutes of observation, types of data used to make judgments,…

This article focuses on "organizational health, i.e., the health of a school, through redefinition of the role of the school principal". (JC)

The power of effective schools lies not in their specific characteristics, but in their individual culture formation; a shared understanding of what ought to be symbolized by the behavior of all people involved in the school is part of that culture. The school cultural orientations of seven male and five female first-time principals (10 white and…