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Scarborough, Harriet Arzu – Journal of Staff Development, 2008
Principals manage schools, ensuring that nothing interrupts business as usual. They spend little time on instruction. A good principal is the one who works in a high-achieving school that has no significant management problems. Districts celebrate improved student results by recognizing an outstanding crop of students, rarely pointing to the…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Accountability
Schwartz, Henrietta – 1973
The Ford Training and Placement Program (FTPP) is a collaborative effort of the University of Chicago, the Chicago Public Schools, and the communities which the schools serve. The model assumes that (a) each school is a unique system characterized by institutional role sets and personalities with individual needs and (b) universities cannot…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Improvement, Inservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Guerrero, Frank; Goldberg, Phyllis – 1989
An evaluation is presented of the Collaborative Consultation Support System Program (CCSSP) which was developed to provide support to public schools in need of assistance. The school in which the program was established consisted of students who were mostly from poor and culturally diverse families. For the purpose of improving instruction, 18…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Disadvantaged Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship
Kenney, Jane L.; Roberts, Jane M. E. – 1984
This study examined the roles, functions, and effectiveness of a group of teachers who became Instructional Leaders (ILs), assuming major responsibility for assuring the implementation of a voluntary school improvement program within their respective schools. The program, called SITIP (School Improvement Through Instructional Process), and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Innovation, Interpersonal Competence, Leaders
Billups, Lovely H. – 1984
Convinced that the results of educational research generated over the past two decades could be of practical value to teachers, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) decided that the union could develop a dissemination mechanism designed to bridge the gap between research and practice. The National Institute of Education funded an AFT proposal…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Iagofarova, D. S. – Soviet Education, 1990
Considers qualities required of rural teachers in the USSR and implications for teacher education. Reports survey results of 430 rural teachers in the Tatar region concerning what a rural teacher must know and problems specific to rural teaching. Concludes that rural teachers must coordinate teaching with social work and face housing and material…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
Stallings, Jane A. – 1981
The Development and Demonstration project has trained interns to lead Effective Use of Time inservice workshops for secondary school teachers of basic reading and mathematical skills. These interns then returned to their home bases and trained teachers who could in turn train other teachers to use the Stallings Effective Use of Time methods. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Class Organization, Classroom Techniques