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The Classroom Observation of Teaching: Discrepancies between Prescriptive and Descriptive Practices.

Blankenship, Glen, Jr.; Irvine, Jacqueline Jordan – Clearing House, 1985
A review of research shows that, while supervisory job prescriptions focus on classroom observation for the purpose of improvement of instruction, job descriptions differ from the prescription and there is a gap between the classroom supervision that occurs and the supervision prescribed in the literature. (FL)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education

Travers, Robert M. W. – Contemporary Education, 1979
Competency-based teacher education is attacked, and adaptation of the methods theory of acting to teacher preparation programs is advocated. (LH)
Descriptors: Acting, Competency Based Teacher Education, Identification (Psychology), Personality Development