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Kennebrew, Johnny L.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1989
Successful building-level instructional supervision requires a physical, intellectual, and psychological environment where optimal teaching and learning can occur. While supervisory activities may open the lines of communication between the principal and the teacher, these communication lines may be affected by the perceptions that teachers have…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Leadership Styles, Organizational Climate, Secondary Education
Vickers, Bettye Hamill; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1989
To influence teaching in a way that enhances and improves student learning is the school principal's responsibility. Because perceptions are more important than actual behavior, it is essential for principals to know if their perception of their supervisory actions is in agreement with the way their teachers perceive the same supervisory…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Education, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles
Ward, Betsy B.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1989
Increasing demands for educational accountability make it important for principals to know how and when to successfully use methods of supervision with teachers to attain the mutual goal of instructional improvement. To determine whether significant differences existed between junior high school teachers' perceptions of principals' supervisory…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Instructional Leadership, Junior High Schools
Berry, Bobbie C.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1989
The lack of a clear role definition for the special education supervisor has resulted in an interpretation of the position as that of a facilitator, planner, and legal rights guarantor for exceptional children. To determine whether differences existed between the self-perceived supervisory methods of special education administrators and their…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Styles, Organizational Climate
Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1989
This paper examines the relationships among school climate, leadership styles, and group interaction as perceived by teachers, selected parents, and selected students in a medium-sized Mississippi Delta school district. Parent dissatisfaction with the behavior of a junior high school principal provoked this study. The total sample consisted of 86…
Descriptors: Administrators, Board Administrator Relationship, Educational Environment, Instructional Leadership
Download full textRichardson, Gloria D.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1988
This study investigated differences in teachers' perceptions of their burnout levels and their perceptions of their principals' supervisory behaviors. Demographic variables of gender, race, and subject area were considered. A random sample of 192 Mississippi teachers of English, math, science, and social studies was drawn from secondary schools…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Principals, Secondary Education, Secondary School Teachers
Richardson, Gloria D.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1989
The empowerment of teachers through collaboration, a supervisory trend currently receiving much attention and emphasis, employs variability and encourages cooperative decisionmaking. Despite its apparent popularity, collaboration can be viewed as unwieldy and difficult to manage with teachers who are already working under less than desirable…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Collegiality, Leadership Styles, Organizational Climate
Sistrunk, Walter E.; And Others – 1989
Due to parental disenchantment with a Mississippi Delta junior high school principal, the principal's leadership style, the school climate, and group interactions were investigated. A consultant was employed to determine teachers', students', and parents' perceptions of the school climate and of the principal as a leader, and then to recommend a…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Educational Environment, Junior High Schools
Sistrunk, Walter E.; And Others – 1983
Two data-gathering instruments, the Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ) and the derivative Supervising Teacher Behavior Description Questionnaire (STBDQ), are described in one paper and employed in three others in this symposium series. Both forms are useful in evaluating perceived behaviors of supervisory educational personnel,…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Behavior Patterns, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Pullen, Deborah B.; Sistrunk, Walter E. – 1990
In November 1989, a study was conducted to determine if there were significant differences between ideal and actual supervisory behaviors of community college vocational supervisors, as perceived by vocational instructors and by the supervisors themselves. A random sample of 35 supervisors and 378 vocational instructors was selected from all…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Characteristics, Community Colleges, Cooperation
