A total model of skill-based intervention which includes theoretical rationale and practical forms and techniques is described. The skill-based model is applicable to practicum supervision in schools and agency settings. Counseling skills important in practicum are delineated. Guidelines are given for working with field supervisors, university…

AN ATTEMPT TO REDUCE THE PERIOD OF STUDENT TEACHING BY A SUPERVISED WORK-STUDY PLAN WAS PRESENTED. THE PURPOSES WERE TO EXERIMENT WITH A PLAN WHICH INVOLVED INSERVICE SUPERVISION FOR BEGINNING TEACHERS WITH A RELATIVE REDUCTION OF PRESERVICE TRAINING, TO EVALUATE THE RESULTS, AND TO GRADUALLY INTRODUCE CHANGES INTO THE TOTAL PROGRAM. AT THE END OF…

MICROTEACHING WAS USED IN A SERIES FOR THE IN-SERVICE TRAINING OF SUPERVISORS. TEACHERS AND SUPERVISORS WERE GIVEN ONLY A CURSORY AMOUNT OF TRAINING AND INITIAL APPLICATION, YET SUPERVISORS WERE ABLE TO NOTICE DIFFERENCES IN TEACHING BEHAVIOR. THE TRAINING SEMINARS DEMONSTRATED THAT MICROTEACHING CAN BE OF REAL VALUE TO EXPERIENCED PERSONNEL.…

This is the full text of the dissertation previously summarized in ED 014 278. Questionnaire responses from 37 junior colleges were used as a basis for analyzing current practices in supervision of instruction and for developing a proposed program for such supervision. While differences in degree of supervision were found there were few…

Following a classroom observation, an audio tape was made of a supervisory conference between the principal or other supervisor and the teacher. Two analyses of the principal's conference skills were then added to the tape together with editorial comments on the analyses, and the tape was then returned to the principal. At the time of the report,…

Previous research on the use of interaction process analysis and microteaching in teacher education indicates that these two methods of achieving specified behavioral changes in the teaching behavior of student teachers are at least as effective, if not more so, than traditional methods. Attention now turns to the different ways that interaction…

Lewin's field theory was used as the basis of an investigation into the influence of the supervisor in education. The focus of the study was the relationship between teacher perceptions of four kinds of supervisory styles and selected teacher attitudes. Preservice teachers were asked to classify their supervisor's behavioral style. Teacher…

This discussion is limited to specific opportunities and methods of supervising students rather than encompassing supervisory techniques in general. This paper: (1) examines the characteristics of student workers from the supervisory point of view, (2) notes the type of structures for supervising student field experience, (3) suggests supervisory…

Material in this booklet was excerpted from a series of tape-recorded interviews with labor superintendents and supervisors who work directly with student manpower in the 100-year-old, work-learning program at Berea College. The document examines selected areas of supervisory responsibility in a college work-study program. It includes information…

A major drawback in microteaching by preservice teachers is the limited availability of university supervisors to supply feedback regarding the microteaching performances. This researcher investigated the effectiveness of feedback supplied by the preservice teachers themselves. Thirty preservice teachers participated in the study. Each microtaught…

Based on the assumption that the conduct of an effective supervisory conference is analogous to effective teaching and that the assumptions made about effective teaching behaviors can also be made about supervisory behaviors, this paper develops and describes in detail a ten-category observation system for supervisory conferences, similar to the…

This collection of 10 position papers represents one phase of an effort to design behavioral objectives for training programs for Teacher Corps team leaders. Floyd T. Waterman identifies tasks and needed competencies for the complete range of team leader activities. Richard W. Saxe notes the several meanings of systems approach as they apply to…

Although increasing use of paraprofessionals to implement key program concepts has the advantage of increased availability and lower salaries, problems in maintaining acceptable levels of performance have also been reported. This study assessed the role of performance-related feedback on the work behavior of paraprofessional tutors in a remedial…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a memorandum issued by the Ministry of Higher Education in cooperation with the Higher Committee for Study Abroad discussing Egyptian students abroad. The memo is conscious of problems faced by the student overseas: length of time spent in travel formalities; lack of…

A description of the 2-year experience of a group of 6 social workers, engaged in family therapy, who experimented with the use of peer group supervision. (BRT)