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   Supportive Supervision in Schools » Read Now

   by Raymond C. Garubo, Stanley William Rothstein. 168 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   Does fear or trust dominate relationships in your school's classrooms? How well do supervisors listen to and respond to teachers? How well do teachers listen to and respond to students? How are problems identified and solved? Supportive Supervision in Schools is a guide for teachers and...

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   Does fear or trust dominate relationships in your school's classrooms? How well do supervisors listen to and respond to teachers? How well do teachers listen to and respond to students? How are problems identified and solved? Supportive Supervision in Schools is a guide for teachers and administrators who want to create good school climates and a school culture that encourages professional growth and development among staff members. It uses a conferencing method to allow teachers, administrators, and students to discuss and reflect upon what they are doing inside the school building. The authors use actual examples to illustrate how supportive environments can be constructed.

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   Learner-Centered Principalship: The Principal as Teacher of Teachers » Read Now

   by William G. Webster Sr. 260 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...Webster's points are: (1) the principal must teach teachers using an informed vision of the school as an ideal setting for learner growth, (2) teaching the universe of...
   
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   Teacher Participation in Decision-Making - Its Relationship to Staff Morale and Student Achievement, in Education » Read Now

   by Randal E. Jones. 6 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...participation in decision-making - its relationship to staff morale and student achievement...Still, some studies have found no such relationship (Conley, Bacharach, Bauer...
   
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   Organizational Climate and Culture: A Conceptual Analysis of the School Workplace, in Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation » Read Now

   by Wayne K. Hoy. 20 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

   ...deals with the patterns of relationships that exist between individuals...of teacher-teacher and teacher-principal interactions, the Organizational...health have the...
   
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   Teachers and Schools - What Makes a Difference: A Principal's Perspective, in Daedalus » Read Now

   by Kim Marshall. 34 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...work hard to create a positive set of relationships with parents, based on the belief that...climate, support a teacher, strengthen a relationship, and perhaps relieve...
   
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   From First-Year to First-Rate: Principals Guiding Beginning Teachers, in Journal of Teacher Education » Read Now

   by Alfredo Urzua. 3 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...Appropriately then, the usefulness of mentor teams is also an issue addressed by this book, offering helpful guidance in terms of the relationship established between...
   
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   An Analysis of Principal-Teacher Communication Patterns under Conditions of High Covert and Low Covert Perceptual Disagreement, in Journal of Experimental Education » Read Now

   by Michael C. White, Charles A. Reavis. 6 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...way of determining whether there is a relationship between perceptual disagreement and...establishment of a principal/ teacher relationship. High Covert Disagreement and...
   
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   Teacher Stress as Related to Locus of Control, Sex, and Age, in Journal of Experimental Education » Read Now

   by Glennelle Halpin, Karen Harris, Gerald Halpin. 5 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...whom little was known regarding the relationship between locus of control and stress...Neither sex nor age moderated this relationship. "STRESS IS THE SPICE OF...
   
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   Observed Supervisory Behavior and Teacher Burnout in Special Education, in Exceptional Children » Read Now

   by Cary Cherniss. 6 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

   ...description of supervisory behavior and its relationship to burnout. METHOD Subjects and...measure supervisory behavior and its relationship to burnout in special...
   
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    Collegiality: A New Way to Define Instructional Leadership, in Phi Delta Kappan » Read Now

    by Thomas R. Hoerr. 2 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library

    ...empowering teachers to collaborate on schoolwide tasks and to work with one another on becoming more effective requires that a new relationship be forged between...
    
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    School-Based Trust in Victoria: Some Telling Lessons, in Australian Journal of Education » Read Now

    by Pam Bishop. 12 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library

    ...teacher administration relationship...Empowerment as a source of motivation through teacher-principal interactions. Unpublished M.Ed. dissertation...Fawcett, J. Downs, I...