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Salmon, Daniel A.; Wolf, Susan E. – Clearing House, 1982
Traces the development of the performance appraisal program of the Hicksville, New York, public school system, which was designed to improve instructional programs. Describes the strong opposition the program received from teachers. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Faculty Development, Faculty Evaluation
Katz, Stanley S. – 1979
Results-Oriented Supervision (R.O.S.) is a system for teacher supervision that focuses more on instructional improvement than on teacher evaluation. The supervisor and the teacher join together to formulate teaching objectives. After a period of implementation, a postconference is held to assess and restate or renew objectives. In the school…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation, Program Descriptions
Appalachia Educational Lab., Charleston, WV. – 1988
Described are six elementary schools in Virginia that were judged as meeting nine criteria for programs facilitating participatory decision-making by teachers. The term "participatory decision-making" refers to the sharing of decisions on school policies and practices between teachers and school administrators. Information on the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Criteria, Definitions, Demography
McKown, Dale L. – 1985
Teachers and administrators in a midwestern school district met to assess the reasons for negative attitudes toward the district's staff inservice program. They agreed that the program's goals were too broad, the sessions were (for the most part) designed to motivate teachers to try but not to master a particular teaching skill or strategy, the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Inservice Teacher Education, Models
Norris, Martha A. – 1975
The multi-faceted role of the advisor in an open education setting is defined in this paper. Background information on the development of the open corridor approach to elementary education (created in America by Lillian Weber), the subsequent emergence of the teacher support position of advisor and the resulting advisor training program is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Faculty Advisers, Inservice Teacher Education
Buckner, Edward M. – 1988
The Atlanta Public Schools (APS) system has magnet programs integrated into the instructional programs of 14 of its high schools. Each program has an instructional coordinator who reports to the principal of the school. Because the APS student body is overwhelmingly black, the programs do not have as a major goal increased racial or ethnic…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elective Courses, Enrichment, High School Students
Gorsin, John – 1979
This model of teacher supervision was designed to improve instruction in the Aspinwall Elementary School in the Fox Chapel School District, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The project sought to accomplish three things: improve the achievement level of underachieving students, increase teacher instructional effectiveness, and change the teachers'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Conferences