The California Mentor Teacher Program is a state-supported initiative to encourage and reward outstanding teachers and to provide staff development services for other members of the profession. Designated mentors receive an additional stipend and are assigned duties and responsibilities, including assistance and guidance to other teachers. (MT)

Describes an experimental academic course on marriage and family therapy supervision. The course, an adapted version of an institute program, was taught in four stages, combined a seminar and a practicum, and culminated with live supervision of live supervision. (Author)

Some characteristics of clinical teaching in legal education are criticized. Evidence from transcripts of supervisory meetings indicates that clinical teachers teach students to manipulate and dominate others. (MLW)

Authors review the clinical supervision model and present a case study of its use in peer supervision. Findings reveal the underlying assumptions of the model are incongruent with school context. (MD)

Efficient supervisors have three kinds of skills: human, managerial, and technical. Each is defined and examples are provided. While human relations and management are important, technical skills, more than any other, make the role of the instructional supervisor unique. (TE)

Offers tips for supervising teachers and teaching based on the assumption that good teaching is an art rather than a science.

Describes the successful, three-tiered staff development program implemented in the Green Bay Area (Wisconsin) Public Schools. The program involves training administrators to recognize and foster effective teaching, training teachers in effective teaching techniques, and screening all teacher candidates to maintain quality in the system. (PGD)

Discusses the changes in administrative structure in the Lunenburg Public Schools (Lunenburg, Massachusetts), including the new management of professional personnel, pupil services, and special need programs, as well as the roles of key administrators. (JW)

The study was designed to increase the amount of time 37 severely handicapped students living in a residential facility engaged in age-approprite and functional activities. Results showed that after a supervision program was implemented, the students' participation in activities increases and that these increases maintained for a 5-month period.…

The steady decline in the number of districtwide instructional supervisors necessitates research to determine the relationship between district supervision and school effectiveness. Answers and data-collection methods are needed for questions concerning the nature and scope of supervisory functions, modes of organization for fulfilling them, and…

This paper outlines major features of the faculty advisor's role in experience-based learning, describes findings from studies on intern evaluation, and encourages active faculty participation in internship supervision. (Author/ND)

Discusses the goals and functions of differential supervision and describes and contrasts six supervisory models used by the Chicago Child Care Society. (Author/NJ)

A report on the sorry state of practice teaching'' in India today, with suggestions for improvement. (Author/SP)

It is the presence of contrasts and the existence of conflicts between student teachers and their supervisors that act as a development impetus to improve the quality of both assessment and supervision. (Author/MB)