This document reports on a study that (1) investigated and tested interdisciplinary models of dialogue settings akin to the supervisory conference in student teaching, and (2) gathered information about the verbal behavior of university supervisors and supervising teachers during a student teaching conference. Data gathered from 10 pairs of…

This paper reviews the development of the supervisory conference from 1930 to the present and contrasts the objectives and procedures of traditional and emerging models of supervision. A general discussion of systematic observation instruments for use in supervisory conferences leads to detailed descriptions of and directions for using two…

This paper focuses on using a systems approach to develop supervisory conference strategies to be tested in constructed and controlled teaching-supervisory situations. This involves identifying performance objectives through a functional analysis of teaching and analyzing the interacting and interdependent variables. It is then necessary to…

Based on the assumption that the conduct of an effective supervisory conference is analogous to effective teaching and that the assumptions made about effective teaching behaviors can also be made about supervisory behaviors, this paper develops and describes in detail a ten-category observation system for supervisory conferences, similar to the…

Materials from a training session on assessing teaching effectiveness via a clinical supervision model are presented. The historical development of classroom observations and instruments is summarized, and the five-step method of clinical supervision (Goldhammer, 1969) is detailed. One step toward the improvement of classroom instruction through…