Supervision provides benefits for school counsellors and career counsellors such as support, an opportunity to gain new ideas and strategies, and personal and professional development. Despite this, studies have also shown that school counsellors perceive that the amount of time they participate in supervision is inadequate. In career counselling,…

The series of statements here concern the administrator's role in improving instruction. Each of them is stated as a proposition that can be argued endlessly; the author is prepared to do exactly that, he says, but not in this article. (Editor)

A program at American International College (Springfield, MA) and the local public school system allows student teachers to have practical classroom experience with special needs students. Orientation sessions are followed by ongoing instruction (demonstration by the cooperating teacher), participation by the practicum student in classroom…

ONE ASPECT OF THE PERCEPTUAL ACCURACY OF STUDENT TEACHERS AND THEIR SUPERVISORS IN JUDGING THEIR INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS WAS EXPLORED. A FIELD STUDY OF 40 STUDENT TEACHERS AND THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPERVISING TEACHERS EXPLORED THE POSSIBILITY OF SUBORDINATE ROLE BEING A CORRELATE TO THE ACCURACY OF THEIR INTERPERSONAL PERCEPTION. AT THE END OF 6…

This speech outlines the role of the teacher supervisor in public schools. After a review of the negative aspects faced by many student teachers, recommendations are made for a better working and learning relationship between the teacher supervisor and the student teacher. The integrated program at Lenoir Rhyne College includes the following…

This volume is the last of four sets of materials produced for training science supervisors in educational technology. It describes the contents and use of kits designed to help supervisors analyze their jobs in five basic supervisory areas: budget; equipment, supplies, and materials; optimum learning systems; provision of services to science…

A study examined the effects on teacher performance and attitudes of several manipulations of the conditions under which the microteaching supervisor provides feedback: he bases his critique on (1) a videotape of the microteaching lesson which he views with the microteaching teacher (VT group); (2) an audiotape instead (AT group); (3) his…

This paper questions who should fund and control teacher centers. Recommendations include the establishment of local teacher centers supervised by a board of trustees chosen jointly by the teachers' union and the school superintendent and funded by the board of education in an amount equal to at least 2% of the annual operating budget. The author…

The evaluation of this project provides further evidence that the more traditional modes of in-service training need to be replaced with programs that provide help for teachers in their own individual classrooms. Advisors who assume roles of working in school settings over extended periods of time need to have certain qualities that will make them…

This pamphlet provides supervisors with a brief summary of pointers in personnel relations. (For related documents, see Ac 014 426-427, 429.) (KM)

THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO DETEMINE IF THE QUALITY AND LOGISTICS OF SUPERVISION IN TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS COULD BE IMPROVED BY SUBSTITUTING VIDEO RECORDINGS FOR LIVE CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS. RESULTS SHOWED THAT (1) TEACHER TRAINEES WHO RECEIVE FEEDBACK ON THEIR TEACHING PERFORMANCE MAKE GREATER CHANGES IN SELECTED BEHAVIORS THAN TRAINEES…

This paper is concerned with the role of the tutor supervisor during that phase of the microteaching cycle which has been variously described as the feedback session, critique, counselling session, supervisory conference, lesson evaluation, self-confrontation, and self-viewing. (Author)

Those who supervise teachers are in an excellent position to influence the learning experiences of many youngsters, believes this educator. Supervisors who give thoughtful and constructive guidance can improve the school for students and teachers alike. (Editor)

The clinical supervision cycle is divided into various segments (preobservation cycle, observation, postobservation analysis, postobservation conference, postobservation conference analysis), and the research needs for each of these stages is detailed. The need for evaluating the cycle in terms of student outcomes is stressed. (MJB)