Offers suggestions for designing a management questionnaire and interpreting employee responses so that executives may make an informed decision on whether to support an intervention. Highlights include employee perceptions on competing goals; supervisory suggestions and employee reactions; and a case study. (Author/LRW)

Offers step-by-step guidelines for traveling with a vocational student organization. Includes tips regarding agendas, hotels, registration, schedules, dinners, transportation, forms and rosters, and discipline and management. (JOW)

A review of literature from 1964 to 1993 found that supervised agricultural experience (SAE) teachers, students, parents, and employers value the teachers' supervisory role. Implementation practices vary widely and there are no cumulative data to guide policies and standards for SAE supervision. (SK)

A survey of 302 Ohio superintendents showed that principals assessed as having difficulties with "problem solving and decision making" and "delegating and monitoring" responsibilities were unlikely to succeed in their jobs. Although superintendents intervened with conferencing and/or goal-setting strategies, only 21.6% of the…

There are three approaches to educational supervision: the applied science approach, the interpretive-practical approach, and the critical/emancipatory approach. From a Taoist perspective, conflicting supervision theories or proposals should be welcomed, not resisted. By accepting a diversity of views to inform practice, a balance or centeredness…

Responses from 172 of 244 Iowa secondary agriculture teachers indicated that one-fifth were not observed by supervisors during an academic year; more than half had no preobservation conference and one-third no postobservation conference. Supervision variables did not predict job satisfaction or persistence. Collaborative supervision contributed to…

This study explored "creative supervision" using qualitative methods of data collection and analysis. Findings include a new model of counselor supervision. Rather than resting on a developmental notion of supervision goals, the Regenerative model empowers students to identify their own learning needs by integrating expressive arts activities…

Reports on the metaphors used by nine science supervisors to describe their supervisory functions. Findings indicate that the metaphors cohered into four distinct categories whose functions exemplify the supervisory models of manager, caregiver, politician, and colleague. Contains 19 references. (JRH)

Because knowledge work occurs inside teachers' heads, it cannot be supervised directly. School improvement can become a permanent, ongoing organizational function by replacing traditional instructional supervision with a supervision-for-school-improvement function. The focus then shifts to examining a district's work processes, social…

Observation of 15 nursing students and 15 clinical supervisors in primary care settings revealed that student learning was holistic and meaningful when patient-oriented approaches were used. However, many settings used task-centered approaches, resulting in fragmented learning. (SK)

Investigates the experiences of early-entrant school counselors who were a school counselor and a student simultaneously. The phenomenon of early entry is examined through school counselors' perceptions of the experiences as early entrants to the field, the support they received, and supervision. (Contains 30 references.) (GCP)

Conceptual analysis, using three major arguments, of the relationships among the organizational structure of schools, leadership styles, and the supervision of teaching practices. One argument, for example, is that situational and transformational approaches to supervision are influential forms of professional development. Constructs arguments…

Little has been written about the nature of group supervision for school psychologists in training. In organizing the supervisor's approach to running such a group, the following theoretical models may prove effective: attachment theory, object relations theory, group theory and self psychology. Case examples are discussed in order to illustrate…

Examines the phenomenon of supervision in the professional development school context from the perspective of six student interns and one university supervisor using interviews, field notes, and document analysis. (Contains 32 references.) (PKP)

In a randomized 2x2 study, 174 managers and students read one of four scenarios with one of two posttraining transfer interventions (relapse prevention, supervisor support training) and information types (utility analysis, research). They showed no preference for adopting either intervention to increase staff productivity. Research information was…