The author presents and discusses the comments of a group of student teachers on feedback and how they use it to monitor the development of their teaching skills. (Author/SJL)

Supervision and evaluation, contained within a due process framework, are beneficial to both the teacher and the educational administrator. (LH)

Examines some suggestions for the supervision of student teachers especially on the secondary school level. (Author/RK)

Perceptions of elementary principals were compared to findings of supervisors of psychological services on a 13-item questionnaire. Both groups rated generalist skills and individual diagnostic testing and consulation as important, and remedial instruction as unimportant. Implications for university trainers and field psychologists were noted.…

In the first year of a study of 74 Chilean children (ages 6-11) with learning problems, half participated in a multifaceted neurocognitive treatment and half in a treatment that provided supervision of school tasks and peer group support. All participated in the neurocognitive treatment the second year. Both treatments resulted in gains.…

Presents three cases of novice teachers and how they make the choice between covering the curriculum and fostering their students' understanding. Recommends that supervisors provide opportunities for their teachers to identify their metaphors and associate them with their beliefs and actions, to make alternate metaphors explicit, and to support…

Describes a method that was used as a supervision and teaching tool to assist student counselors in developing client conceptualization skills. Describes the Inverted Pyramid Heuristic method, providing case illustrations. Discusses applications of the method to supervision and training. (KW)

Updates Holloway and Johnson's (1985) review concerning the group supervision of trainees learning individual psychotherapy. Suggestions for future research and implications for training are discussed. (Author)

Reviews contributions of National Vocational Qualifications in Child Care and Education to early childhood workers. Argues that whether or not introduction of the qualifications is seen as an advance depends on whether the focus is on improving the training of currently unqualified workers or on the need to develop a new graduate-level education…

The legal and ethical dilemmas faced by counselors working in organizations are outlined, together with the need for the counseling profession to set clear competency and supervision standards for practitioners. Uses counseling services provided within the British postal system as a model. (Author/KW)

Examined the impact of local school management on teachers' work. Drawing on the narrative biography of a single Australian high school teacher as part of a larger multi-sited ethnography, revealed the level of policy incoherence to be such that most of the worst excesses of accountability and marketization accompanying local school management…

In forming an integrated theory of reflectivity as it occurs in clinical supervision, five experts in practitioner development were interviewed about attributes of supervisee reflectivity. Respondents' statements from initial interviews were categorized and presented to respondents for additional discussion. Grounded theory analysis was used to…

Shrinking budgets, demands for supervisory contact, and the rural isolation of Indiana University of Pennsylvania create special problems for pre student-teaching and student teaching. Describes a proposed project that will use interactive video technology to supervise student-teaching practica in distant locations. Outlines project phases,…

Examines the relationship of seven work-environment variables in the job satisfaction of school social workers. A multiple regression model accounted for 28% of variance in job satisfaction. Three significant variables in the model are satisfaction with supervision, difference between actual and ideal levels of service provision, and changes in…

Examines intentional invitations that challenge, confront, exhort, and persuade people to change their behaviors. Assumes that the sender controls the "intention" and that the receiver determines the degree of "inviting." Suggests that elements of the invitational model serve as a framework to create acceptable inducements in…