Suggestions for conducting post-observation conferences are provided, indicating that supervisors should minimize threats and be sensitive to teachers' professional pride, attitudes, and feelings. Suggestions related to four parts of the conference process--planning, coaching and counseling, goal identification, and closure--are identified. (JN)

Offers a teacher self-assessment procedure that allows supervisors to provide direction to teachers in diagnosing their own strengths and weaknesses. (FL)

Uses an interactional analysis system to characterize beginning supervisory style. Considered the variance in supervisory interaction behaviors and the stability of such behaviors with different trainees. Concluded that beginning supervisors have individual predilections for supervisory behaviors that are stable with different trainees.…

This article traces the history of supervision in school psychology and discusses the current guidelines and standards of professional organizations concerning supervision. The duties of and demands placed upon field-based supervisors as they attempt to implement professional standards are discussed. In addition, minimal competencies of…

Discusses qualities a principal can look for in an assistant principal and ways to help the assistant function effectively while training to assume a principalship. (WD)

Teachers' ratings of the effectiveness of supervisors are strongly influenced by supervisors' interpersonal skills, according to a study of 143 science supervisors and 258 teachers. (Author)

Generalizations are made about the different purposes and outcomes of supervisory conferences. Examples are provided. (Author/MLF)

The process of personnel analysis is one of the few viable vehicles in the educational environment that can lead to the improvement of instruction and professional growth, the authors contend. Such analysis must, however, be implemented in a non-threatening manner. (Editor)

Counseling is praised for its emphasis on the "developmental" rather than "policing" role of supervision. Profession's presumption that supervision indicates anything about the client is challenged. Client must be admitted to the counseling room for this to happen. Explores various means to achieve this; highlights resistance of the profession.…

Reviews Manford A. Sonstegard's place in the development of group counseling, including his early work, his use of Adlerian approaches, and his perspective on current issues, supervision, and training. (KW)

Examines the formulation of supervisory feedback messages as a function of attributions regarding poor subordinate performance and feedback goals. Finds that supervisors' goals determine the type of feedback generated and that attributions for poor performance have relatively few effects on the generation of feedback messages. (KEH)

Two studies using simulated supervisory conferences were designed to determine whether teachers and supervisors discriminate among types of direct supervisory communication: (1) information only; (2) information with suggestions; and (3) information with directives. Results with 30 teachers and 133 supervisors are discussed in terms of…

Discussion of effective performance supervision emphasizes measurability, communication, follow through, and revision, and provides a generic model applicable to a variety of supervisory settings. Highlights include observation and documentation of actual performance; communicating variance between performance standards and actual performance;…

A survey of 123 rehabilitation counseling students' perceptions of supervisory style and supervisor behaviors during practicum was conducted. Using the Supervisory Style Inventory and the Supervisory Questionnaire-Revised, confirmatory factor analysis did not support the original factor structure of either scale and no consistent relationship…

Investigated effect of Structured Group Supervision (SGS) model on master's-level counseling students' (n=194) personal and skill development. Collected data during participants' enrollment in practicum courses taught over seven-year period. SGS model of group supervision seemed superior in comparison with "control" group model.…