The main purpose of the community service practices course (CSP) is to develop pre-service teachers' awareness of social responsibility. Therefore, various practices are carried out through these courses and pre-service teachers are tried to gain skills such as solidarity, sharing, cooperation, effective communication and problem solving. This…

Purpose: This paper presents a review of empirical research on educational leadership during times of crises in K-12 schools. This review aimed to map the recent literature and identify key characteristics of educational leadership during crises to understand how this type of leadership is different from current understandings.…

Background: Factors influencing the implementation of communication partner training (CPT) with familiar partners of people with aphasia (PWA) have previously been documented using disparate approaches. To date there has been no synthesis of these factors using a common theoretical framework. Investigating CPT implementation factors using a common…

The purpose of this report is two-fold: first, to provide an authoritative and critical overview of the current evidence regarding what is currently known about effective social and emotional learning (SEL) and in doing so, second, to examine common strategies and practices typically deployed in evidence-based SEL programmes in detail. The…

As today's graduates engage with the demands of the current Knowledge Age, the skills that they need to succeed in their lives after college, or any other institution of higher learning, are 21st century skills rather than 20th century skills. Kivunja (2014) calls this "the new learning paradigm" (p.85). Unfortunately, those skills are…

An overview is presented of recent research that has improved the understanding of teaching, effective teaching functions, and the processes which can be employed to improve teaching. This research has been used by those writing national reports on education, and plays an important role for state policymakers who are considering legislation to…

The author states that there are differences in the ways male and female administrators spend their time, in the ways they interact day to day, in the priorities that guide their actions, in the perceptions of them by others, and in the satisfaction they derive from their work. (CT)

The Audit of Administrator Communication Instrument was developed to provide the principal with teacher perceptions of the principal's communication skills and to collect research data on principal-teacher communication. The instrument was developed in three stages: theoretical constructs; testing and analysis; and revision of the instrument. (JN)

This training manual provides information on the operation and function of "quality circles," a factory program introduced in Japan in which workers participate voluntarily in quality control and management decisions through various means of communication. Following an introduction, the manual presents a series of frequently asked…

Defines educational overload as the inability of an individual or organization to respond to a problem or situation in an appropriate period of time resulting in distress for the people involved. Recommends strategies for dealing with overload. (FL)

Today it is generally acknowledged that the ongoing success of college-level courses in critical thinking is largely a response reflex. There has been a steady deterioration in the quality of communications skills offered by secondary students seeking collegiate-level schooling. These deficiencies reflect serious deficiencies in the basic thinking…

Focusing upon the interactive work-group communication patterns of employees classified as "managers," this paper compares such communication observed in Japanese and United States business and industrial organizations. The paper first describes several models of decision making within American and Japanese organizations, highlighting…

The need to manage resources effectively and the high turnover rate of administrators have prompted several universities to implement academic leadership training programs. Leadership training techniques include the development of problem-solving and decision making skills, communication and interpersonal skills, and conflict resolution, resource…

A review of the literature pertaining to organizational interviewing reveals a number of issues that have hindered research in that area in recent years. An analysis of these issues suggests that researchers should adopt an integrative approach to theory development--one that recognizes the situational differences of various organizational…

In the site-based management model, principals must have specific skills for effective leadership. Those skills include an ability to motivate teachers, support open management, engineer participative decision making, develop human and group skills with strong communication, and lead and guide activities and groups toward the goals of the school.…