Intended for personnel without specific training in counseling and guidance, the booklet addresses considerations in counseling gifted students. In "Issues in Affective Development of the Gifted," L. Silverman examines perceptions of others and of one's self, the effects of lack of recognition of students' special needs, and the tendency toward…

This study examined the perceptions of elementary and secondary school administrators who were participating in an Entry Year Assistance Program. Opinions were sought from 24 administrators concerning the program both as a whole and focusing on various facets of the program, such as the development of the first-year teacher's professionalism and…

Chapter 5 of a revised volume on school leadership, this chapter presents the case for school-based management, stressing the principal's central role. In site management, the school is the primary decision-making unit. Decisions concerning expenditures, curricula, and personnel are made by school site staff, with help from parents, students, and…

As a means of comprehensive preservice education, mentor principals were selected using both naturalistic and quantitative methodology. The ethnographic technique of portraiture was also chosen as a means to understand and study the human relationships within the school and to understand the work of the principals in the context of these…

This study, a research component of Tennessee's 1987-1988 Leadership in Educational Administration Development (LEAD) project, describes actual and preferred teacher involvement in selected school activities. Two hundred and three teachers in 18 schools ranked their degree of actual and preferred involvement in determining school activities. The…

The educational reform movement has helped bring the principalship into new prominence. Among the forces affecting current attitudes toward the principalship are the effective schools literature, which has stressed the centrality of the principal's role; the anticipation of retirement by a large proportion of principals; the increased research on…

Fulfilling the role of the community college president requires that a balance be maintained between internal constituents (e.g., students, faculty, administrators, and support staff) and external constituents (e.g., politicians, members of coordinating agencies, business leaders, trustees, alumni, and special interest groups). When the president…

Survey responses from over half of Oklahoma City's 2,500 teachers indicated their views of the effectiveness and leadership of the city's 94 school principals. The survey's 82 items were selected from ideas suggested in the principal effectiveness literature and from the leadership component of Oklahoma City's prinipal evaluation forms. The…

Women, especially black women, may be the primary "change agents" in institutions in the 1980s. Women in education should distinguish between women's equity and the need to reform educational institutions to equip them to serve urban, ethnically diverse populations. The crisis in American society and the inappropriateness of its educational,…

A study surveyed teachers from 10 schools to determine their perceptions about the principal's actual and ideal role in the school's reading program. A 40-item questionnaire was organized for analysis in seven categories: (1) goal and program development, (2) program coordination and delivery, (3) supervision and evaluation, (4) staff development,…

To help primary and elementary school principals in South Carolina, this short manual identifies aspects to be considered when developing a kindergarten program. Part 1 discusses the reasons for having kindergartens, lists the skills to be developed in kindergarten (including motor, personal-social, perceptual, auditory, visual, memory, and…

Critical theory (CT), according to the author, is concerned with a critique of the modern rationality that underlies both scientific and industrial projects that subjugate the individuality of the person. He sees CT as an analytical and reflective process that stands next to the reach for empirical verification of the reality of the world and the…

Professional computer education organizations serve a valuable function by generating, collecting, and disseminating information concerning the role of the computer in education. This report touches briefly on the reasons for the rapid and successful development of professional computer education organizations. A number of attributes of effective…

A study examined the role of the administrator and the program planner in program development in adult education. To obtain this information, the researcher administered written questionnaires and conducted follow-up interviews with 10 administrators and 10 program planners working in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, metropolitan area. The…

Although some consider the administrator as primarily a manager of a school's reading program, the dominant view sees him or her as an instructional leader, setting the tone, providing the impetus, and defining the school's philosophy for reading. In this role, the administrator must work cooperatively with teachers. Inadequate background and…