This videotape and accompanying guidebook are intended to help teachers as they support and supervise paraprofessionals in the classroom. Section 1 of the guidebook provides a self-assessment to help teachers evaluate their present support and supervisory skills. Sections 2 through 5 address four key knowledge and skill areas. These sections…

As part of a school reform program, focused initially on literacy the San Diego City Schools decided to create the position of school-based staff developer. Creating this position proved to be a daunting challenge, with considerable disagreement between the union and the school district. Data were collected about the early implementation of the…

This paper presents a case study as an illustration of the need to probe issues and assumptions that arise when outsider staff developers work with teachers from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. After tracing the historical and sociopolitical context of urban school reform, the paper examines the author/educator's experience of…

This paper discussed the need for clarification of the meaning of CBTE, emphasized the development of instructional materials and assessment procedures as necessary components of CBTE and the intimate connection between CBTE and teacher behavior research. (Author/RK)

This study describes the training conducted with selected regular employees of a federal agency to prepare them to serve as counselor-interviewers in the upgrading process. A comparison between the accomplishment of trainees as demonstrated in the training exercises and changes in their communication patterns (toward openness or closedness) is…

What schools are doing by way of using their staffs more effectively in the instruction of youth is explored here as the author reports his findings in NASSP's exemplary program files. (Editor)

Discusses how a staff meeting may be effective in aiding instructors with direction giving. (GB)

Describes ideas and activities to facilitate group self-relevant data sharing presented at a Colorado community education conference of community school leaders and administrators. (Author/DN)

Presents the President's report to the 58th Annual Meeting of the NUEA, Omaha, Nebraska, April 15, 1973. (Editor)

This article uses both theoretical knowledge and practical reality associated with the implementation of school improvement as data sources for determining what is desirable for staff development. (Authors)

Article gives nine guidelines plus a model of content organization for staff development. (GB)

The objective of this article is to define a model for school staff development that is founded on the principle of relevance. That model is CONSEL or Confrontation-Search Laboratory, originated at Xicom Communications Laboratory. (Authors/CB)

The Division of Program Research and Design is the driving force behind the Cincinnati Public Schools' change effort. Staffing this division is the focus of this article. (CB)

Paper presents a model designed to identify factors to be taken into account in effecting educational improvement within the context of schooling. (Author/CB)