In a 2012 paper for the Center for American Progress, "The State of Evaluation Reform," Patrick McGuinn (Drew University) identified the opportunities and challenges facing education agencies in Race to the Top (RTTT) grant-winning states as they prepared for the implementation of new teacher evaluation systems. The 2012 study undertook…

The author notes that before any training takes place, managers must know their responsibilities as advisors, coaches, reinforcers, and positive models. They must understand that, if they fail to fulfill those roles, their subordinate supervisors probably will not use their new skills on the job. (SSH)

Author examines the components of behavior that underlie success in management training. (Editor)

This manual provides a step-by-step discription of how to conduct a management awareness training session. Included are discussions on the target audience, goals, facilities, equipment and materials, staffing, introduction into the client organization, pre-training preparation, group composition, the training schedule and a detailed breakdown of…

This second of five articles on how to plan and implement a supervisory training program focuses on determining needs and establishing objectives. Discusses twelve approaches for determining supervisory training needs. Includes a figure presenting examples of three types of behavioral objectives: knowledge, skill, and attitudes. (EM)

Although learning can be defined in cognitive, affective, or behavioral terms, the specification of communication, planning, or evaluation skills in behavioral terms is most appropriate in management training. Learning objectives are most effectively reached in a closed rather than open loop learning design. In designs, the learner's reactions and…

Supporting performance objectives 7, 8 and 9 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on planning and scheduling work assignments and priorities for other clerical workers are included in this packet. (The packet is the second in a set of…

Supporting performance objective 10 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on training other clerical workers in the operation of the executive typewriter are included in this packet. (The packet is the third in a set of three on…

This student guide is intended to assist persons employed as supervisors in accounting for money. Discussed in the first four sections are the following topics: the need for accounts; financial accounting (basics of financial accounting, creditors and debtors, assets and liabilities, and balance sheets); cost and management accounting (company,…

This document describes the objectives and activities of a State-coordinated training program in curriculum evaluation. Seventy-five Maryland education supervisors and five from adjacent States were trained in identification, formulation, and evaluation of instructional objectives for science, mathematics, and humanities programs. Participants…

This learning unit on descriptive statistics is one in the Choice Series, a self-learning development program for supervisors. Purpose stated for the approximately eight-hour-long unit is to enable the supervisor to understand the nature and uses of statistics at work, understand information which is obtained from figures at work, use statistics…

This instructor/lesson guide provides instructional materials for a 4-hour course in listening skills in the workplace. Stated objectives are to help students to become more effective listeners, to assist students in obtaining an understanding of how effective they are as listeners, and to assist students in identifying bad listening habits. Two…

This learning unit on supervising with authority is one in the Choice Series, a self-learning development program for supervisors. Purpose stated for the approximately eight-hour-long unit is to enable the supervisor to define authority, distinguish between different types of authority, and use authority more effectively in the workplace. An…

This student guide is intended to teach persons employed as supervisors how to manage time. Discussed in the first three sections are the following topics: the importance of managing time (managing time, becoming a better time manager, crisis management, beck and call, the treadmill, and the activity trap); techniques of deciding how to use time…

After a discussion of the responsibility of supervisor training and the requirements for change in supervisor behavior, 12 approaches to determining supervisor training needs are outlined. These include analyzing the supervisor's job, analyzing problems, asking the supervisors, asking their bosses, asking their subordinates, observing supervisory…