The SEED (Supervisory Effectiveness in Employee Development) model outlines seven steps for managers responsible for personnel development: (1) orientation, (2) assessment of needs and goals, (3) planning of developmental strategies, (4) provision of formal learning experiences, (5) assistance with transfer of training, (6) task assignments for…

Explains demographic, legal, and economic reasons why managers need to understand older workers and outlines a seminar on issues of managing these employees. (SK)

Lists 10 teacher evaluation guidelines culled from 10 years of "Bulletin" articles. (MD)

The author examines the role of specialist supervisors in special education and suggests the need for reconsideration which would give special education supervisors authority over programs for more severely handicapped students, while allowing mildly handicapped students to be within general education's dominion. (CL)

Proper supervision has been a concern of those responsible for education for many years. The 100-year-old definition used here may help us gain some insights regarding our sophistication and/or needs in the important area of supervision. (Editor/RK)

Eighteen clinical supervisors participated in focus groups or an individual interview designed to investigate their personal experiences with value conflicts in supervision. Participants described the types of value conflicts they had experiences and their personal impact, effective and ineffective approaches for addressing these issues, resources…

A group of five psychologists and graduate students in psychology met for 16 weeks in a weekly one-hour group supervision meeting. This is a summary pf the experiences with an emphasis on the authors' feminist approaches to the supervision meeting. (Author)

This study examines the effectiveness of a new counseling practicum training model, which was developed as part of a Professional Development School (PDS) program. Unlike the traditional counseling practicum, the college instructor and graduate students worked together in a school setting one day a week. All supervision was provided on-site and…

The purpose of this book is to help new student affairs workers in higher education make an easier transition from graduate student to full-time professional. It also hopes to increase the retention of professionals who enter the field. This book provides an examination of key issues facing new professionals and suggests ways of thinking about the…

This second edition offers step-by-step instruction for supervisors of novice counselors. The book is divided into three major parts. The first part, "Introduction and Ethical Framework," contains an introduction in which commitment to supervisor and counselor development is discussed. Chapter 2 provides ethical guidelines for…

A description of a system for analysing supervisor-teacher interaction as developed by Arthur Blumberg of the Educational Administration Department at Syracuse University. (JA)

Article considered the functions of the department chairman. (RK)

To accomplish this the article advocates more care in placing student teachers, and in training and selecting their supervisors, and in thrusting'' a student into a classroom experience. (JA)

This article studies an actual supervisory conference between an assistant department head and a teacher on the department staff. It compares methods of analysis and of interpretation of the interaction between the supervisor and the teacher. (Author/JA)

Direct supervision of teachers for agricultural programs in Ohio is moving from the State to the local level. The primary function of the local supervisor is to improve the instruction in programs for high school and adult students in the Vocational Education Planning District. Other duties vary according to local policies. (AG)