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Ridley, Agnes Fenster – 1968
Phase II of this three-phase study was a seminar held to inform teachers of information obtained in Phase I, a survey of 483 Florida businesses. During the course of the seminar 59 home economics teachers and supervisors participated in 3 weeks of intensive in-service education. Pre- and post-tests were made of participants' knowledge, attitudes,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change, Home Economics Teachers, Inservice Education
Snader, Daniel W. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1962
To help State Supervisors of Mathematics develop constructive leadership programs suitable for immediate adoption, under varying State and local conditions, the U.S. Office of Education sponsored a National Conference of State Supervisors of Mathematics at Washington, D.C., from June 19 to 23, 1961. The Conference had four main objectives: (1) To…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Leadership, Curriculum Development, Mathematics Curriculum
Rice, Dick Conrad – 1966
The central purpose of this study was to identify the role of state field supervision of vocational education in Ohio in relation to change as perceived by supervisors and their reference groups. The primary task was accomplished in part by testing the following hypotheses: (1) The supervisors' reference groups differ in their perception of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Change Agents, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Change
Kaiser, Charles H. – 1968
Role theory concepts were employed to define substantive areas of interactions between vocational teachers, state supervisory personnel, and local school administrators, define potential and actual role conflicts for vocational teachers arising from these interactions, and assess the impact of perceived conflict upon vocational teacher job…
Descriptors: Administrators, Agricultural Education, Bureaucracy, High Schools
Magisos, Joel Hans – 1968
To develop a basis for understanding the relationships between change orientation of state supervisors of vocational education and selected individual, intraorganizational, and extraorganizational factors, 12 major hypotheses and 63 pairs of null and alternative hypotheses were formulated upon the basis of a theoretical framework. Responses to a…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Doctoral Dissertations
HALLMAN, CLEMENS L. – 1965
THE MODERN STATE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SUPERVISOR IS PRIMARILY A LEADER IN A COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE INVOLVING ALL ASPECTS OF EDUCATION, AND IS JUDGED BY THE SERVICE GIVEN TO THE TOTAL SYSTEM. THE SUPERVISOR SHOULD HAVE A SOLID BACKGROUND IN LANGUAGES, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL, AND TEACHING PHILOSOPHY AND TECHNIQUES, AND SHOULD UNDERSTAND AND BE ABLE TO…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, State Supervisors, Supervision, Supervisor Qualifications
Smith, Philip D., Jr. – 1963
This report reviews the practices of the various states represented at the second national Study Conference of State Supervisors of Foreign Languages (May 1963) pertaining to inservice education. Results of a questionnaire distributed to the state supervisors focus on the following topics in this article: (1) types of inservice programs, (2)…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Education Courses, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Loew, Helene Z. – 1977
A survey form, used in a recent survey to determine what issues or dilemmas are important to school supervisors today, was used in a similar survey conducted to determine the concerns of second language supervisors in New York State. Supervisors were asked to rank order five issues which they considered to be the most important out of 17, and to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Curriculum Development, Instructional Improvement
CHRISTIANSEN, JAMES E.; TAYLOR, ROBERT E. – 1966
TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE INFLUENCE EXERTED BY DIFFERENT SOURCES ON THE ADOPTION OF INNOVATIONS AMONG EXPERIENCED VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE TEACHERS, THIS STUDY HAD AS SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES TO (1) DEVELOP MEANS OF CLASSIFYING TEACHERS INTO ADOPTER CATEGORIES, (2) IDENTIFY THE MORE INFLUENTIAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION IN CREATING AWARENESS, (3) IDENTIFY…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agricultural Education, Diffusion, Educational Innovation
Sheldon, William D. – 1969
State Supervisors should use their influence to develop the English and reading programs in their states. They can improve the quality of instruction by (1) insuring the competency of reading teachers and specialists in their schools by requiring a minimum number of essential courses for beginning teachers and reading specialists; (2) developing…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, English Curriculum, Information Dissemination, Instructional Materials
Clark, Raymond M. – 1971
Part 3 of a 6-part series of pamphlets contains anecdotes of a vocational agriculture teacher's (who was also a State Supervisor) experiences in both young farmer and adult farmer programs. The pamphlet, based on actual happenings, is intended primarily for use in pre-service and in-service vocational agriculture teacher education and presents…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education, Case Studies, Educational Philosophy
New York State Science Supervisors Association, Albany. – 1978
This position paper was written by the New York State Science Supervisors Association (NYSSSA) in response to a statewide movement by some New York school districts to eliminate supervisory positions occupied by subject matter specialists. Recommendations and the rationale for supporting science supervisory positions are presented. This rationale…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Opinions
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Greenan, James P.; And Others – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1992
Responses to 3 surveys (165 of 250 Indiana business/industry/labor advisory board members, 188 of 242 Indiana trade and industrial teachers and directors, and 43 of 55 state supervisors) identified generic skills needed in the curriculum and recommended a focus on new and emerging technical areas. (SK)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Educational Needs, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills
HENSEL, JAMES W.; JOHNSON, CECIL H., JR. – 1967
QUESTIONNAIRES WERE MAILED TO 50 STATE SUPERVISORS OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND 373 HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS IDENTIFIED AS PURCHASERS OF CENTER-DEVELOPED AND -DISSEMINATED MATERIAL TO EVALUATE THE CONTENT OF COURSE OUTLINES AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS PREPARED FOR TEACHING OFF-FARM AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS. COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES WERE RETURNED BY…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agricultural Education, Curriculum Guides, High Schools
Cook, Katherine M. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
Because of the individual authority of each State for its own educational program, practices and policies differ widely among them in many respects. Yet in the midst of differences there are also common elements of development. The U. S. Office of Education, in presenting this series of monographs, has attempted to point out those common elements,…
Descriptors: School Administration, Teacher Education Programs, School Supervision, State Departments of Education
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