The Supervisor's Interactive Model of Organizational Relationships (SIMOR) integrates two models addressed in the leadership literature and then highlights the importance of relationships. The Supervisor's Interactive Model of Organizational Relationships combines the modified Hersey and Blanchard model of situational leadership, the…

Offers a supervision plan designed to help identify teaching deficiencies, assist in planning and managing improvement, and create situations promoting dialogue beween principals and teachers. The plan involves yearly goal setting, pre- and postobservation conferences, and an informal observation process. (MLH)

This New York State school developed a program that improved student attendance. The program required no additional funding but specified that students be grouped by attendance and that special techniques be employed to supervise and monitor them. (MD)

Supervision is supposed to improve classroom teaching by enhancing teacher thinking, rejection, and understanding of teaching. Evaluation systems are supposed to increase effective teaching behaviors and enhance teacher professionalism. Through the lens of symbolic interaction, we learn that "supposed to" does not matter. In a context of increased…

Provides a nonthreatening and collegial supervision model for teachers who do not see themselves as being able to profit from instructional improvement statements. Includes a diagram and six references. (Author/MD)

How can administrators balance the demands placed on them as supervisors to enact both managerial and professional values? To answer that question, this article explores the ways in which practicing school administrators uphold both managerial and professional values in their roles as instructional supervisors. The experiences of the…

There is a natural link between clinical supervision and its current interest in effective teaching. Describes how the process affects practice in schools today. Lists Morris Cogan's eight phases of supervision and Madeline Hunter's seven steps in the development of an effective teaching lesson. Includes five references. (Author/MD)

Discusses peer supervision of teachers and the integration of videotape recording into teacher supervision. Suggests ways videotape recordings can complement efforts to effect changes and offers advice on successful taping. (WD)

In many communities, Halloween has become an excuse for young people to commit acts of violence and vandalism. One New York middle-school principal sent a post-Halloween letter to parents detailing the weaponry confiscated by police and terming the holiday a pointless social exercise. The letter helped parents reassert their limit-setting…

To retain an exemplary dean of students with heavy caregiving responsibilities, a Poughkeepsie, New York, high school adopted a plan to split her job responsibilities with an educational administration student beginning his career. Job-sharing success hinged on strong cooperation among the district, the individual administrators, and local…

The Systems Supervisory Model is presented to help principals improve their supervisory skills and instructional staff. (MD)

Presents a practical, research-based process to help principals assist teachers in developing questioning skills. Measurable elements of effective questioning include teaching style, levels and types of questions, wait time, modeling of mental processes for answering questions, and use of transfer. Includes 20 references. (MLH)

An effective teacher evaluation program geared toward instructional improvement is described. It includes frequent interaction between administrators and teachers and is participatory, diagnostic, and cooperative. (MD)

The proposed Instructional Technologist Model is based on a closed loop feedback system allowing for continuous monitoring of teachers by expert instructional technologists. Principals are thereby released for instructional evaluation and general educational management. (MJL)

In New York City, the assistant principal for supervision is responsible for staff development and improvement of student outcomes in specific subject areas. High schools have four to eight such positions. These administrators teach one to three classes daily, depending on department size. They train teachers, develop curricula and testing…