This study reviewed the literature in the field of health care management, particularly that which pertains to the management of the clinical laboratory. The research cited should help cytotechnology educators in planning a management curriculum and developing program objectives to train cytotechnologists in management. The report is an annotated…

An extensive search of the literature on clinical supervision yielded 29 research studies and 3 works in progress. Studies using comparative measures conducted in K-12 school settings with inservice not preservice personnel were selected. These were grouped into four areas: attitudes toward supervision, effects of training, characteristics of…

This pamphlet is intended to help administrators understand and employ a model of cognitive styles that will help them understand why they communicate well or poorly with certain people, why different teachers respond differently to the same style of supervision, why different students respond differently to the same style of teaching or…

This study examined changes in behavior as a result of intensive workshop activity that trained supervisors to apply clinical supervision skills in their supervision of student teachers. Workshops in clinical supervision attempt to foster a "freeing," less "direct" approach in supervisory behavior by establishing a collegial…

This document was originally designed for the Pennsylvania Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (PCSM) to meet a need in the available literature on supervision in mathematics education. Chapters include an introductory section that details the specific needs, skills, and duties of the mathematics administrator, and sections titled: (1) Types of…

COMMITTEES WERE SET UP AT A FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE AND ASSIGNED TO REPORT ON DIFFERENT PROBLEM AREAS OF LANGUAGE TEACHING. IN THE FIRST REPORT, "COMMUNICATION LEADS TO UNDERSTANDING," THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED WITH GAINING COMMUNITY SUPPORT AT THE START OF A NEW LANGUAGE PROGRAM AND THE WAY SCHOOLS SHOULD HANDLE THESE PROBLEMS…

A study of human relations as it applies to leadership, change, and education in its broadest sense is presented in this text. The book brings together the basic factors governing human behavior and interaction and relates them to actual learning situations involving administrative, management, supervisory, and teaching skills. It presents aids…

The correspondence course in supervision is designed for adults interested in self development who hope either immediately or ultimately to assume supervisory responsibilities. Each of the 10 chapters contains an introduction, a statement of what should be learned from the chapter, written course material in paragraph and outline form, and a…

This manual, developed for supervising teachers and others involved with the professional growth of students during their professional laboratory experience, explores "the means by which supervising teachers may use supervisory conferences to guide students in studying their own teaching behavior." The underlying thesis is that "the conference…

This document describes a cooperative program designed to strengthen rapport between the college department of student teaching and its off-campus student teaching centers, to improve the quality and supervision of student teachers within these centers by developing increasingly effective cooperating teachers, and to strengthen the college…

The Experimental Model for Teacher Education was implemented during the academic year 1969-70. Its major objective was to build a field-based program using predefined behavioral objectives and their accompanying performance criteria with an instructional program integrating theoretical knowledge with practical experience. Twenty trainees were…

Designed to determine the feasibility of remote supervision of college students during their preservice teaching experience, this study focused on the use of three techniques of college supervision--face-to-face, audio-phone, video-phone--to ascertain their effects on student teacher improvement in specific teaching skills and in teaching…

This book consists of six self-instructional programs to be completed individually by the reader. Topics of the programs are: current conceptions of educational evaluation; modern measurement methods; instructional supervision; a criterion-referenced strategy; constructing teaching performance tests; using teaching performance tests; and…

The purpose of the study was to define and describe the role of the district supervisor of trade and industrial education as perceived by the district supervisor and by the clientele that he/she serves (day trade instructors, coordinators, and local vocational administrators). The scope of the study was limited to trade and industrial education at…

Six severely disabled young adults were taught to self-monitor work rate on job tasks, evaluate daily performance against a criterion, and recruit contingent feedback from supervisors. Performance results indicated a functional relationship between self-recruited feedback and maintenance of improved work rate. (Author/JW)