Argues that instructional supervisors must play an active role in translating community-generated goals and processes into effective educational programs. (JG)

Emporia State University College of Education's recognition of the strong impact university supervisors and cooperating teachers have on student teachers compelled it to develop a training program to prepare supervisory personnel in the use of various supervisory strategies. (Author/CB)

Author provided an essay on the use of the Flanders Interaction Analysis in clinical supervision; in it, he stressed that interaction analysis is not an end but simply a tool to be utilized by supervisors for assisting in the instructional improvement process. (Author/RK)

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)

Supervisors must provide guidance services for agricultural education teachers. (GB)

A general description of the State supervisor's role in coordination, curriculum, public relations, student organizations, program funding, and special project. (JT)

Preschool programs for children with and without disabilities housed in public school settings have increased dramatically over the last decade. This study examined the perspectives of preschool teachers about who provides instructional supervision for their preschool programs and the behaviors these individuals use to influence their…

The skills, understandings, and attitudes necessary for an effective instructional supervisor were identified in the literature (using, for the most part, those materials written since 1975). Twenty-six elements were identified and clustered into six areas for a self-evaluation instrument that can give supervisors a means to describe and analyze…

Providing effective feedback and supervision for student teachers is an important area of concern. The two primary sources of feedback, the cooperating teacher and the university supervisor, are somewhat limited in scope. At the same time, various approaches used successfully with experienced classroom teachers have been rarely tried with student…

ASPECTS OF SUPERVISOR-TEACHER INTERACTION WERE EVALUATED THROUGH AN ANALYSIS OF QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM 164 TEACHERS AND 45 PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPERVISORS ATTENDING SUMMER SCHOOL AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY. FINDINGS INDICATE--(1) BOTH TEACHERS AND SUPERVISORS REGARD INDIRECT SUPERVISOR BEHAVIOR AS MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN DIRECT, (2) TEACHERS VIEW…

The speaker presents his notion about reconceptualizing the function of supervision and the role of supervisors in a way that fits the needs of teachers, supervisors, and schools. This new approach conceives of the function of supervisors as interpersonal intervention and the role of the supervisor as that of interpersonal interventionist--a…

This collection of 65 articles related to the profession of educational supervision is intended primarily for use with students in teacher education. Represented in the single volume are articles from a decade of writing (1960-69) by leaders in the "emerging profession" of supervision. The essays, which cover a wide range of subjects in their…