Executive coaching is an increasingly popular means of accelerating professional growth and enhancing managerial performance. Unlike most other training and development options, coaching is completely personalized and private. This guide offers practical suggestions and tips to aid in understanding the nature of a coaching engagement and in…

Intended to show that English teachers' activities outside the classroom enhance their regular classroom work and permit them to teach new, larger audiences, the articles in this journal issue emphasize how English teachers can reevaluate their skills and express those skills in a language that businesses understand. Some of the articles explain…

Communication consulting is one way academicians can help businesses to improve their employees' communication skills. Benefits teachers can derive from "academic" consulting include (1) experience that can supplement classroom materials, (2) opportunities for research in "real" settings, (3) additional income, and (4) personal…

This training module describes and defines the role of the behavioral consultant and strategies for time management, problem solving, providing teacher support, and establishing collaborative relationships within the school, between home and school, and between school and community. The first of three workshops addresses the role of the behavioral…

Perceptions regarding the theory and practive of educational management development in the United Kingdom are offered in this essay. It is suggested that most educators prefer theoretical discussion of management to practical help, and that teachers often are difficult to teach on account of intellectual egotism--a resistance to experiential…

The Baylor Principals' Center in Waco, Texas, offers programs in the Texas cities of Waco, Corsicana, and Killeen. Advanced instructional leadership training workshops consist of 12 hours of training. Incorporated into the meetings of the instructional leadership sessions are collegial circles made up of from six to eight people assigned in a…

Brewton City (Alabama) school district administrators implemented the concept of an institution of higher education (IHE) person becoming involved in their schools' professional programs on a long-term basis. The IHE person became as familiar as possible with the school system and the personnel involved by talking with teachers, observing in…

This study investigates the nature and scope of current staff development activities and their relation to better teaching or school improvement in a representative sample of school districts and private schools in Arizona and southern parts of California and Nevada. Findings are based on telephone discussions with 72 administrators in the region.…

Describes the art education program in Moncton, New Brunswick (Canada) from elementary school through senior high, emphasizing art as a serious discipline that demands a coherent structure, definite objectives, sequential learning skills, reasonable expectations of both product and process, a regular place in the timetable, and trained teachers…