Suggestions on the role teachers, principals, and subject-matter consultants should play in the teacher evaluation process. (SP)

Educational supervision must be tied to improving staff skills in several critical areas--planning, diagnosis, monitoring, evaluating, and modifying programs to meet individual students' needs. To address supervisors' training deficiencies in these areas, this article recommends a workable training model and outlines desirable supervisor…

Lists some reasons why supervisors are often among the first personnel to be cut in a budget crunch, then lists six abilities essential for the survival of supervisors in education's changing climate. (JM)

Describes seven phases in the evolution of supervisory practice in the schools. Describes each historical phase in relation to its purpose (assisting or assessing), focus or emphases, the personnel typically involved, the skills needed to implement supervision, and the assumptions surrounding the process. (SR)

Identifies ten essential supervisory roles and incorporates them into a supervisory self-assessment instrument. (Author/JM)

The goal of the Synthesized Professional Supervision Model is the creation of academically healthy schools. This model for supervision of the whole school community includes supervisor reflection on professional interaction, supervisee professional development, paradigms influencing practice, and phases of professional supervision. (SK)

Campus supervision is a craft that must be learned. It requires both knowledge and skill to be effective. Supervisors need a baseline knowledge of the school. They also need to understand the students they are to supervise--their cultural backgrounds, group dynamics, unique behaviors, issues, normal hangouts, and communication styles, as well as…

All countries wish to have a school education system which provides a rich and productive learning environment for their young people. Such aspirations are usually presented as a set of aims supplemented by sets of objectives and statements of expected attainment at various stages of education. To support and monitor the provision of education and…

Details of a study done by 11 western New York state school districts to determine the behavior supervisors found most effective in teachers during a one-to-one conference. (DS)

Describes role of local coordinator in providing vocational teacher supervision, thus allowing state supervisors of agricultural education more time for their other responsibilities. (DM)

This volume contains the recommendations for improving English supervision which were formulated at the USOE Conference of Supervisors of English. James R. Squire discusses the present state of supervisory procedures and inservice teacher education, and Helen F. Olson reports the findings of the 1962 National Council of Teachers of English Survey…

This article discusses current developments in geography instruction in Nigeria. The roles which supervisors could play in order to meet the challenges posed by the new developments are emphasized. (DE)

To what extent can school principals provide effective educational leadership? Research shows that, contrary to textbook images, principals react to their circumstances instead of controlling them and that they spend most of their time on administrative, not instructional, matters. Further entrenching principals in their administrative role is the…