This paper focuses on public school program development to correct the effects of segregation. It suggests concrete measures and plans for the Cleveland Leadership Academy, which is designed to enhance instruction and access. Cleveland City School District's Remedial Order is a court-approved blueprint for desegregation that mandated management…

This document is geared towards new mathematics supervisors. It consists of a collection of ideas that mathematics supervisors have found successful in practice. The material is grouped under the following headings: (1) Relating with Others; (2) Building Leadership; (3) Making It Happen; and (4) Working Smarter Rather Than Harder. Supervisors are…

The influence of supervisory training and experience as a cooperating teacher on the cooperating teacher's role as an instructional supervisor for early field experience students (FES's) was studied. Recent research has indicated that cooperating teachers tend to provide inadequate feedback and avoid negative comments. Their FES's appeared to have…

Promoting women into higher level organizational positions is vital as a social issue and a subject for organizational theory and research. Recently, Henning and Jardin have identified an internal factor that poses a problem to women and their job-related aspirations. The absence of long-term career commitment has been found to inhibit the…

THE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT PROGRAM, ONE OF 35 SEMIPROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS AT CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO, COMBINES GENERAL EDUCATION, RELATED BUSINESS INSTRUCTION, HOTEL AND RESTAURANT CLASSES, FOOD PREPARATION AND SERVICE TRAINING, AND WORK EXPERIENCE. THIS DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM INCLUDES (1) PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES, (2) CURRICULUM,…

IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, SCHOOLS STILL PROVIDE A BACKGROUND OF GENERAL EDUCATION DURING THE YEARS OF COMPULSORY EDUCATION. A YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE PROVIDES CAREER INFORMATION, VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE, AND PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE. LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITIES HAVE TAKEN OVER THIS FUNCTION IN ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS OF THE SCHOOLS UNDER GRANTS FROM THE…

Although the literature of library administration draws extensively on that of business management, it is difficult to compare library supervision to business or industrial supervision. Library supervisors often do not have managerial training and may consider their management role as secondary. The educational level of the staff they supervise…

Part of the series "Managing Highway Maintenance," the unit is designed for use with unit eight, level one, and unit 13, level two, and the certification tests for those units in the series. It contains typical management data and selected highway maintenance standards for the areas of: surface and shoulder; roadside and drainage; traffic…

One major objective of the Special Education Supervisor Training (SEST) project was to develop a model for competency specification that would be appropriate for both preservice and inservice preparation of any leadership personnel. This involved the two problems of specifying competencies in valid and utilitarian ways, and assessing competence. A…

Air Force research has identified 254 highly rated journeyman-level tasks, out of a potential 683, in the career field of Accounting and Finance, and has evaluated the extent to which 1,261 first line supervisors in this area have had experience in these tasks. Two seven-skill level specialties within the career field, General Accounting…

This self-instructional learning packet is one part of a competency-guided program for instructional supervisor preparation developed by the Special Education Supervisor Training (SEST) project. This packet leads its users through an exercise simulating the recruitment and selection of personnel to staff a new community school program within a…

This slide-tape presentation, with accompanying manuscript, describes the physical make-up and the functions of a teacher education center. According to the presentation, a teacher education center is a cluster of two or three geographically contiguous elementary or secondary schools. It is administered by a coordinator who is selected jointly by…

This document contains eight papers prepared by workshop participants: "Placement of Student Teachers: A Cooperative Venture Between Teacher Education Institutions and Public Schools" by Donald Abernethy, Robert Highland, Richard Terry, and Ruth Wilvert; "Handbook for Student Teachers" by Sister Rose McDonnell, Sister James…

This study was designed to determine the training needs (management skills, technical skills, and areas of study) of hospital personnel in Pennsylvania. The objectives were: to determine present and long-range (3 to 5 years) self-perceived training needs of administrative, supervisory, and other hospital staff personnel; and to recommend methods…

An attempt is made to show the importance of modern audiovisual (AV) aids and techniques to management training. The first two chapters give the background to the present situation facing the training specialist. Chapter III considers the AV aids themselves in four main groups: graphic materials, display equipment which involves projection, and…