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Peer reviewedStevenson, Robert B. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1987
The role of staff development in establishing charactertistics of an effective school was examined in order to illuminate associations. A framework was used to categorize these characteristics into three critical dimensions. Two consistent patterns emerged that are described and used to present broad guidelines for the conduct of staff…
Descriptors: Classification, Instructional Leadership, Participative Decision Making, School Effectiveness
Petersen, Margaret B. – 1991
Results of a staff development program designed to enhance participative decision-making through improving the quality circle process are presented in this practicum report. Methodology was based on two sets of interviews--needs assessment and followup--with school leaders at two school sites and onsite observation. After identifying problems in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Participative Decision Making, Professional Development
Thomas, Grace Gilliard – 1989
The implementation of quality circles to increase elementary school teachers' involvement in problem solving, vertical communication, and policy formation is examined in this practicum report. An attitudinal survey of 44 elementary teachers to document lack of vertical communication yielded 32 responses. A followup survey was administered to the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Organizational Communication, Participative Decision Making, Policy Formation
Craney, Thomas J. – 1987
The practicum was designed to improve the multidisciplinary team (MDT) process for identifying seriously emotionally disturbed (SED) students within five elementary schools, with the primary goal of implementing a decision facilitation model in order to provide a more systematic approach to SED identification. Initially, inservice training was…
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavior Disorders, Elementary Education, Eligibility
Download full textWeiler, Mary Josephine – 1996
This report describes the development and implementation of an integrated team approach for interviewing candidates for employment with a residential program that serves children (ages 10-18) with emotional disturbances and behavior disorders. The integrated interview approach was accomplished by: (1) training the supervisors to increase their…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Employment Interviews, Interprofessional Relationship
Malaspina, Barbara A. – 1991
This practicum was designed to improve preschool, kindergarten, and first grade teachers' group decision making skills in order to encourage program continuity from grade to grade in schools in a culturally diverse metropolitan area. A second aim was to use shared skill building to reduce isolation and improve problem solving among preschool and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Cooperative Planning, Early Childhood Education, Interprofessional Relationship
De Candido, Linda S. – 1986
A sequentially planned program using quality circle techniques was adapted for the educational environment and Implemented in an elementary school in central Florida. The program consisted of 10 sessions designed to acquaint team leaders and administrators with the quality circle techniques and, under the direction of a trained facilitator, to…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Employer Employee Relationship
Shiffer, Michael W. – 1994
A study examined the impact of work teams on production, quality, and morale within the State of Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, using data from fiscal years 1992 and 1993 when a change from a hierarchical organization to a team-based approach took place in the agency. Production was defined as the percentage of placements achieved…
Descriptors: Adults, Job Development, Job Placement, Management Teams
Smith, Jewell R. – 1994
This practicum is designed to assist central office personnel in evaluating the work environment for better coordination to accomplish work, plan for a change effort, and implement a participatory change initiative. The work setting involved a K-12 urban school district (193 schools) containing 431 central-office administrators and more than…
Descriptors: Administrators, Central Office Administrators, Change Agents, Educational Change
Crumley, William H. – 1993
This practicum was designed to utilize a shared decision making (SDM) committee model as a mechanism through which a long-range, comprehensive computer technology plan would be developed for a Jackman (Maine) school system. On-site research coupled with an extensive review of current literature produced a finding that long-range technology…
Descriptors: Committees, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Curriculum Development
Peterson, Margaret B. – 1990
This practicum was implemented to assist teachers who were investigating the possibility of participation in school-based management shared decision-making initiatives at a local school level. The particular focus was to assist the teachers to make decisions based on knowledge and to supply information about the appropriate manipulation of time…
Descriptors: Career Development, Evaluation Utilization, Inservice Teacher Education, Intermediate Grades
Cristiano, Marilyn J. – 1990
In 1990, a study was conducted to holistically evaluate the activities of the Employee Development Program at Paradise Valley Community College (PVCC) and to determine if employee groups differed significantly in their evaluations of the effectiveness of the activities. Of the 114 full- and part-time board-approved employees of PVCC, 86 (75%)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Faculty Development
