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Gonzales, Miguel M.; Storti, Richard – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2019
To help promote a culture of innovation, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Telecommunication of Costa Rica established a national executive decree requiring all public schools in the country participate in the National Program of Science and Technology Fairs (NPSTF). This case study examines the role of five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Elementary Schools, Administrator Role
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Ansar – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
School superintendent has a strategic role in the effort to improve the quality of education, referred to the responsibility to give service and assistance for the teachers and headmasters which will affect the improvement of learning quality in school. Yet, the strategic role and function of superintendent, in fact, is still reflecting its ideal…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Effectiveness, Learning Processes, Outcomes of Education
Creative Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1986
This guide addresses the roles and responsibilities of education coordinators in Head Start programs. The guide covers the key roles of the coordinator: (1) leading the education component of the program; (2) planning, implementing, administering, and monitoring the educational services; (3) supervising staff; (4) training staff and parents; and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Early Childhood Education, Parent Participation, Personnel Evaluation
Creative Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1986
This guide addresses the roles and responsibilities of education coordinators in Head Start programs. The guide covers the key roles of the coordinator: (1) leading the education component; (2) planning, implementing, administering, and monitoring the educational services; (3) supervising staff; (4) training staff and parents; and (5) evaluating…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Early Childhood Education, Parent Participation, Personnel Evaluation
Ruck, Carolyn L. – OSSC Bulletin, 1986
This Bulletin investigates the role of the principal in fostering a school climate conducive to collegial supervision--teachers observing teachers and working together for instructional improvement. Chapter 1 attempts to put into perspective the traditional responsibilities of the principal as instructional leader and teacher evaluator. Collegial…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Leadership
Snyder, Karolyn J.; And Others – 1982
Because the use of clinical supervision methods by administrators in their evaluation and supervision of teachers has been linked to instructional improvement, administrators' perceptions about the implementation of clinical supervisory practices were surveyed. Participants in the study were 412 school district administrators and supervisors who…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators, Classroom Observation Techniques
Townsend, David – 1984
This research project was undertaken to investigate, analyze, and document the process of implementing a new policy of teacher supervision and evaluation in the five secondary schools of Lethbridge (Alberta) School District No. 51. The study focused on (1) critical stages in the implementation process; (2) supervisory behavior and supervisory…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Foreign Countries
Townsend, David – 1984
This report has been prepared as a summary of an indepth study of the implementation of a policy of teacher supervision and evaluation in the secondary schools of Lethbridge (Alberta) School District No. 51. The new policy provided for the development of staff models of supervision in each school and a systemwide teacher evaluation process. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Evaluation Methods, Feedback, Foreign Countries
Holmes, Dennis H. – 1986
During the 1985-86 school year an Intern-Mentor Program was implemented in all four regions of the District of Columbia Public Schools by the Incentive Programs Office. This program, designed to improve the teaching performance of first-year, beginning teachers, involved 90 new teachers and 10 specially selected mentor teachers. Mentors provided…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Internship Programs
Townsend, David – 1987
This monograph focuses on the implementation process that has been a concern of school jurisdictions since the teacher evaluation policy became mandatory in Alberta, Canada, in 1985. Research has shown that school systems are adept at developing written policy but much less successful at putting that policy into effective operation. This overview…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Gorsin, John – 1979
This model of teacher supervision was designed to improve instruction in the Aspinwall Elementary School in the Fox Chapel School District, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The project sought to accomplish three things: improve the achievement level of underachieving students, increase teacher instructional effectiveness, and change the teachers'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Conferences
Ellis, Thomas I. – Research Roundup, 1986
Included in this summary analysis of three journal articles and two documents on teacher evaluation are reports that touch on difficulties facing school officials in developing a teacher evaluation system and suggestions for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of an evaluation system. The first article, by Susan S. Stodolsky, challenges…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Concurrent Validity, Cooperative Planning, Decision Making