This booklet explores the experience of being a new leader in an infant/family program, focusing on reflective leadership--using self-awareness, observation, and flexible responses as tools to manage stress and increase on-the-job effectiveness. Section one defines reflective leadership and explores the parallel process of leadership. Section two…

The role of the supervisor in improving the reading curriculum is more demanding than formerly, even as the teaching profession needs to make do with what there is in the public schools, be it class size, equipment, materials of instruction, or a hostile learning environment. The supervisor needs to look at two dimensions: personal lives of…

This book presents a comprehensive case study of the professional life of a fictional school principal. Based entirely on case-study methodology, all the episodes discussed in the book depict actual events in everyday education leadership practice and represent a real-life education leadership experience through episodic progression. The case…

Job satisfaction ratings-defined as the product (Importance) X (what job should offer, what job actually offers) on 29 job dimensions were factor analyzed for two large samples of management--level males. An identical analysis was conducted on the perceived discrepancy score alone. While the importance weighted measure is more elegant and…

How you can improve a poor program without shaping up a promising teacher. (Editor)

Based on a paper presented at a meeting of the National Association of Language Laboratory Directors.

Examined both trainees' ratings of the supervisory relationship and satisfaction with supervision, and supervisors' ratings of the supervisory relationship, satisfaction with supervision, and evaluations of trainees. Determined cognitive styles through administration of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Results suggested a possible relationship…

Assessed the impact of managerial behavior and manager reputation on perceptions of power in two studies. Behavior significantly influenced perceptions of reward, coercive, legitimate, expert, and referent power; reputation significantly influenced perceptions of legitimate, referent, and especially expert power. Suggested the existence of an…

Argues that service is better in libraries whose staff participate in management activities than in libraries run by authoritarian methods, and that staff educational diversity and adequate collection resources linked to a participative management style enhance staff satisfaction and, concomitantly, library performance. (RAA)

Three kinds of techniques are used by student teacher supervisors in physical education: (1) eyeballing; (2) anecdotal recording; and (3) rating scales. "Eyeballing" is simply the oral transmission to the student teacher of the supervisor's perceptions. Anecdotal recording is a method in which the supervisor writes down his impressions.…

After briefly reviewing theories of organizational stress management, particularly those of Harry Levinson, the author suggests several practical techniques school administrators can use to alleviate teacher job stress. (SJL)