This book is based on a review of the literature on decentralization and teacher management. The focus is on basic formal education, mainly the primary and junior secondary levels of schooling, and on presenting a rationale for decentralizing teacher management. The book presents three models of decentralized teacher management, explores the…

Presents a goal-directed paradigm for supervision of social work students in a field placement within a Veterans Administration Drug Abuse Program. Included is a rational breakdown of five phases in placement: screening, minimum orientation, Goal Work Sheet, body of placement, and evaluation and closure. (Editor/JT)

To many people, the term "clinical supervision" now means the Hunter Model, which involves monitoring of teachers' classroom behavior for usage of Hunter's essential elements of instruction, feedback of these results, reinforcement of desired practice, and a prescription for remediation of teachers' performance. In contrast, the…

This study reviews the literature on the supervisory conference over the past 30 years in order to examine the underlying assumptions about conferences and how they have been incorporated and interpreted by those who have written about supervisory conferences. The review is organized according to the three major components of the conference: the…

This paper recounts the development of a cooperative teacher evaluation system by the Anchorage (Alaska) School District and presents the data that led Anchorage educators to conclude that cooperative evaluation is superior to either traditional supervisor-directed evaluation or minimal unstructured evaluation. In 1984, the district formed a task…

Collective bargaining between teachers and educational administrators has frequently had negative effects on the climate of school supervision and administration, but this need not always be the case. Before collective bargaining, teachers as a group were powerless over their pay and working conditions. Now many teachers feel that collective…

This "occasional journal" contains a collection of articles regarding the supervision of student counselors, written from the viewpoint of both students and supervisors. The articles, written by graduate students, focus on such topics as the student's emotional reaction to supervision, the use of videotapes in counselor education and supervision,…

This study examined the cognitive behavior of supervising teachers and their student teachers working in a conference situation. A modified version of the Aschner-Gallagher classification system was used to code videotapes of conferences held by 15 elementary school teachers and their student teachers. Some of the 15 teachers had previously taken…

The paper examines four management models that could be adopted for use by teacher supervisors. Specifically, the models discussed deal with communication, the Managerial Grid, planning, and the decision-making/problem-solving process. The communication model examines four interaction approaches: developmental, controlling, relinquishing, and…

Describes the clinical supervision approach to teacher supervision and evaluation, and discusses the strengths of the approach. (JG)

First-year teachers frequently find themselves in anxiety-laden situations. Probably because line and staff policy has not been made clear. To overcome this problem an effective program of teacher supervision must be planned. Three key factors for such a program are discussed. (Author/RK)

In 20 schools, surveys of teacher perceptions about management styles and student perceptions of teachers reveals a correlation between effective teaching and "consultative-centralized" management. Consequently, 10 "commandments" for good consultative management are provided. (TE)

Collective bargaining procedures have produced a need for systematic approaches to the field supervision of practicing school counselors. The supervision model here mutually planned by counseling and supervision staff, improves supervision assistance to counselors. By providing an opportunity for a mutually planned supervision model, counselors…

Responses from 85 central office supervisors in Louisiana asked to describe actual job experiences that resulted in positive and negative attitudes toward their work. Their main sources of job dissatisfaction were interpersonal relations and school policy and administration. Sources of satisfaction were achievement and recognition. (Author/MLF)

Attempts to determine the perceptions of the relationship between student teaching assignment and the professional work assignment as reported by college supervisors of elementary school student teachers in five large mid-western universities. Also evaluates selected characteristics of these supervisors. (Author/RK)