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Strachan, Jillian L. – The Australian Administrator, 1981
Most Australian teachers do not hold traditional methods of supervision in very high regard. A more acceptable form of supervision, clinical supervision, utilizes the information gathered from classroom observations to allow the teacher to gain a wider perspective on his or her own performance under non-threatening conditions. A limited survey,…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Download full textSmyth, W. John – 1981
A review of the research indicates that the interface between the findings from research on teaching and staff development of teachers is an important but neglected one. An improvement in teaching skills calls for an interactive or collaborative mode of professional development which is based on classroom interests and the needs of teachers, with…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Change, Educational Research
The Impact of Formal Course Work on Teachers' and School Administrators' Perceptions of Supervision.
Sellars, Neal; Francis, Dawn – British Journal of In-Service Education, 1996
This study explored, through phenomenological interviewing, the impact of a semester-long collaborative professional development course on the perceptions and practices of four teachers in relation to their supervisory roles. Results indicated that the teachers valued work that was self-directed, considered their expressed needs, and let them…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Instruction, Collegiality, Course Evaluation
