Average students -- 6th, 7th, 8th grades (middle schools) -- Manipulatives and authentic materials -- Administrative responsibilities.

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During the 1982-83 school year, public school districts in North Carolina were given the option of using clinical supervision as part of a state-wide performance appraisal process. This option resulted in considerable variation in the implementation and institutionalization of clinical supervision in schools and provided the opportunity to study variables associated with the institutionalization of change in school systems. Berman’s (1981) implementation paradigm was used to identify and categorize predictors of institutionalization. A set of five variables was selected as having the best potential for accounting for the variation in institutionalization of clinical supervision in the public schools of North Carolina. 1. Principal’s perception of the amount of time required to perform one clinical supervision cycle. 2. Amount of internal support for clinical supervision. 3. Amount of training in clinical supervision. 4. Principal’s belief in the effectiveness of clinical supervision. 5. Type of school administered. A <u>Principal’s Survey</u> was developed and mailed to a random sample of 450 public school principals in North Carolina. Information was received from 288 principals (64%). A follow-up survey of nonrespondents verified the representativeness of the original respondents. Principals responding to the follow-up survey were added to the original respondents for a total sample of 300 principals (67%). Multiple regression analysis was applied to the data with institutionalization as the dependent variable. The multiple R was .30 and R² was .09 (F = 4.03, p < .00). Internal support was the only significant predictor of institutionalization (b = .20, t = 3.62, p < .05). Two demographic variables, age and sex, were added to the multiple regression as a side analysis. With these 4 variables added, an R² of .10 was obtained (F = 3.37, p < .001). Age was determined to be a statistically significant predictor of institutionalization (b = -.06, t = -2.48, p < .05). / Ed. D. / incomplete_metadata

The purpose of this study was to examine the instructional leadership role of the senior high school principal, his administrative staff and the degree to which other individuals assume and perform instructional leadership responsibilities in the senior high schools in Virginia. The descriptive survey method was used to accomplish the objectives of the study. The participants in the study included senior high school principals in Virginia. A thirty-eight item questionnaire was developed from a review of selected literature and administered to all senior high school principals in Virginia. Usable responses were received from 210 of the 256 senior high school principals for a return rate of 82 percent. Responses to the thirty-eight item questionnaire from the principals were analyzed using the statistical analysis system (SAS). Data were reported by means, frequencies, standard deviations and percentages. Major findings of the study were as follows: 1. All of the instructional activities were carried out in most of the schools. There was very little differentiation as a function of size, location, and staff. 2. The principal has the highest mean responsibility for most of the thirty-eight instructional activities identified; the assistant principal had the second highest mean responsibility. Exceptions are in follow-up of students, Instructional material development, Inservice programs, and staff development. 3. For the three variables examined (size, location, and staffing), size and staffing seemed to be the variables which influenced the distribution of responsibilities. Generally, mean scores and primary responsibility assigned to the principal decreased as school size and staffing increased. Conversely, responsibility of the assistant principal increased as school size increased. 4. Formulating school goals and observing instructional techniques were reported most frequently by principals as most important leadership activities carried out in secondary schools. / Doctor of Education

Ben Choi Cheong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1989. / Bibliography: leaves 162-173.

Submitted by Nara Lays Domingues Viana Oliveira (naradv) on 2015-07-20T14:42:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 BERGOLDadriana.pdf: 897129 bytes, checksum: c18e529eb4a9eafce4abd14cbf3f8c70 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-20T14:42:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BERGOLDadriana.pdf: 897129 bytes, checksum: c18e529eb4a9eafce4abd14cbf3f8c70 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / PROEX - Programa de Excelência Acadêmica / Esta dissertação tem como temática central a supervisão escolar e investiga a configuração desse campo de saber na Contemporaneidade. A pesquisa pretende mostrar o complexo feixe de relações no qual a supervisão escolar está imbricada, procurando identificar e problematizar algumas afirmações deste campo de saber, mostrando algumas condições sob as quais elas funcionam e alguns efeitos que produzem. Para isso, fez-se uso de uma sustentação teórico-metodológica a partir dos Estudos Foucaultianos que utilizou os conceitos de governamentalidade, análise do discurso e poder como ferramentas para operar com o corpus empírico. Este foi organizado por alguns materiais que compõem o programa de formação continuada denominado Formar em Rede, desenvolvido entre os anos de 2009 e 2011 pelo Instituto Avisa Lá (São Paulo) e pela Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Novo Hamburgo/RS. Com esses materiais, buscou-se perceber como se constitui a supervisão escolar, problematizar as verdades sustentadas para referida função e questionar sobre as racionalidades políticas que produzem a supervisão escolar na Contemporaneidade. Após marcar algumas condições que deram possibilidade para a emergência da supervisão escolar contemporânea, percebeu-se que esse campo de saber se mostra inserido numa sociedade organizada conforme relações de poder de uma cultura empresarial, o que possibilitou identificar que essa função produz a si mesma e aos docentes como empresários de si, dentro de uma matriz performática que fixa esses sujeitos como autônomos e os regula para colocarem-se e/ou manterem-se no nível da produção permanente. Observou-se também que a supervisão escolar age dentro dessa matriz, acionando cada sujeito a autorregular suas ações a partir do trabalho de formação continuada a que as professoras são convocadas a participar. Esses efeitos levam a percepção de que a supervisão escolar atua pela via do gerenciamento das práticas e dos sujeitos, gerando uma economia de poder. Percebeu-se também que, diante da sujeição a que a supervisão escolar é exposta, há um sujeito ativo, que diverge e questiona a forma com que as ações recaem sobre si mesmo. Esses achados levam a considerar que a supervisão escolar na Contemporaneidade, ligada à cultura empresarial, responde produtivamente a tal chamado, configurando-se como uma supervisão que adere ao formato empresa, portanto, uma ‘supervisão S/A’, que fabrica uma supervisora gerente. / The central theme of this dissertation is the school supervision and it investigates the settings of this field of knowledge in the Contemporary. It is intended to show, in this research, the complex series of relationships in which the school supervision is embedded, seeking to identify and discuss some statements of this field of knowledge, showing some conditions under which they work and some effects they produce. To do so, a theoreticalmethodological support is used based on Michel Foucault’s studies, which used the concepts of governmentality, discourse analysis, and power as tools to operate with empirical corpus. This was organized by some materials that make up the continuing education program called Formar em Rede (Network Graduating), developed between the years 2009 and 2011 by the Avisa Lá Institute, in São Paulo, and the Municipal Education Department of Novo Hamburgo/RS. Making use of those materials, the focus was the perception of how school supervision is made up, the discussion of truths held to such function, as well as the questions on political rationalities that produce school supervision in the Contemporary. After identifying some conditions which allowed the emergence of Contemporary in school supervision, it was noticed that this field of knowledge is insertedin an organized society based on power relations of an entrepreneurial culture, which made possible to identify that this function produces on itself and on teachers as entrepreneurs themselves, inside a performative matrix, fixing those subjects as autonomous and regulating them in order to place and/or keep themselves at the level of permanent production. It was observed that school supervision acts inside that matrix making each subject to self-regulate its actions from the work of continuing education to the one which teachers are called upon to take part. These effects make evident that the school supervision operates via management practices and subjects, generating power savings. It was also noticed that due to there strain that school supervision is exposed, there is an active subject, who diverges and questions the manner in which the actions fall on itself. Those findings lead to the conclusion that school supervision in Contemporary, linked to a corporate culture, answers productively to this call, configuring as a supervision that adheres to the format of a company, therefore a supervision Co. That manufactures a supervising manager.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-07-18T12:03:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Elma dos Santos.pdf: 1421435 bytes, checksum: e5fea48fa05fce59d15b136e513bd21c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-18T12:03:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elma dos Santos.pdf: 1421435 bytes, checksum: e5fea48fa05fce59d15b136e513bd21c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-26 / The present study had the general objective to investigate if and how the teaching supervisor of SESI-SP contributes to the continued formation of the school director. The theoretical methodological path is based on a qualitative perspective, which made it possible to use data analysis from the approach proposed by André (1983) called "prose analysis", considered by the author as a way to investigate the meaning of qualitative data. The data, made available to the participants via Google Drive, have been collected through questionnaires, which supported the characterization of the two groups of subjects: 152 school directors and 15 teaching supervisors. Although it was previously intentional, only after the application of the questionnaire that had as a specific objective to identify the contributions of the supervisor of teaching in the student's learning and training, has it been suggested to the teaching supervisors the participation in a discussion group, following the one indicated by WELLER (2006). The theoretical framework has been developed from the discussions proposed by Socio-Historical Psychology, in addition to studies on school management, supervision of teaching and continuing education. The result have showed that the teacher's supervisor contributes to the continued formation of school principals when it is performed in a critical and collaborative way, based on realities experienced in the school space / O presente estudo teve por objetivo geral investigar se e como o supervisor de ensino do SESI-SP contribui para a formação continuada do diretor de escola. O percurso teórico metodológico está fundamentado numa perspectiva qualitativa, o que possibilitou recorrer a análise de dados a partir da abordagem proposta por André (1983) denominada “análise de prosa”, considerada pela autora como uma forma de investigar o significado dos dados qualitativos. Os dados, disponibilizados aos participantes, via Google Drive, foram coletados por meio de questionários, que fundamentaram a caracterização dos dois grupos de sujeitos: 152 diretores de escola e 15 supervisores de ensino. Embora antecipadamente intencionado, somente após a aplicação do questionário que tinha como objetivo específico identificar as contribuições do supervisor de ensino na aprendizagem e formação do estudante, foi sugerido aos supervisores de ensino a participação em um grupo de discussão, seguindo o indicado por WELLER (2006). O quadro teórico foi desenvolvido a partir das discussões propostas pela Psicologia Sócio-Histórica, além dos estudos sobre gestão escolar, supervisão de ensino e formação continuada. Os resultados evidenciaram que o supervisor de ensino contribui para a formação continuada dos diretores de escola quando esta é realizada de forma crítica e colaborativa, a partir de realidades vivenciadas no espaço escolar

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Joao Batista Pires da Silva.pdf: 1820742 bytes, checksum: e0a494e9aa0e35680d43e555a302338a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-30 / This investigation aims at linguistically analyzing the professional in-service education of a school supervisor and of the managerial team of a local municipal school in São Paulo in interactions that were established within reflective conversations which discussed the prescriptions found in Governmental Orders that rule over the specificities of the School Supervisor s job in terms of their advisory and guidance activity with school management. In other words, the dissertation analyzes the extent to which the interaction loci established for the participants education are meaningful for the researcher-supervisor in his interactions with a collaborating supervisor, and later with the school principal and pedagogical coordinator of the municipal school. Theoretically speaking, the dissertation is based on Libâneo s (2008) and Lück s (2008) concepts of educational management as paradigms that seek cohesion of the pedagogical activity as well as a greater participation from the collectivity in decision making. Furthermore, the role of the school supervisor in terms of actions that relate educational policies to their educating actions is also discussed from the viewpoints of Rangel (1997 and 2011), Paro (2011), Evangelista and Freire (2011), Giancaterino (2010), Ferreira (2008) and Carvalho and Oliveira (2012). The research is also supported on the Critical Pedagogy (FREIRE, 1975 and 2001) and on the Socio-Cultural-Historical Theory, with a focus on aspects such as mediation and zone of proximal development (VYGOTSKY, 1996 and 2000), on language that is seen as an invaluable tool, that is intrinsically ideological (Bakhtin, 2003 e 2004), necessary for the awareness raising of educational professional by means of a dialogical practice. The used methodology was that of Critical Research of Collaboration (MAGALHÃES, 2004), since it assumes the need for social and educational transformation by means of reflected actions taken in partnership with the management team. Data was generated in: (1) two educational meetings, which are here called reflective conversations, with the researcher-supervisor and a collaborating supervisor; and (2) a meeting, another reflective conversation with the researcher-supervisor, the principal and a pedagogical coordinator of a public municipal school. Data were analyzed from the viewpoints of Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2006), as well as with the discourse analysis categories by Orsolini (2005), and the interaction analyses discussed by Pontecorvo (2005) and utterance responsibility, according to Adam (2011). This investigation is justified by the growing concern with the education of the school management team in face of the also growing social and political transformations worldwide, and more specifically, the Brazilian transformations which took place during the twentieth century. Throughout the research, I have concluded that the education of the school supervisor is essential for the development of an activity that is committed with political and social matters, understanding these professionals as rebuilders of institutional educational objectives that are useful for the improvement of didactic-pedagogical practices in schools. By thinking about these matters as starting points, the investigation is carried out, analyzing the distance between the job that is prescribed and that which is carried out by the managerial team in terms of the implementation of actions that seek to develop and design school projects / Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar, por meio da linguagem, como ocorre a formação de um supervisor e da equipe gestora de uma escola da rede municipal de São Paulo, durante interações estabelecidas em conversas reflexivas, frente às prescrições contidas em quatro Portarias, que tratam das especificidades do trabalho do Supervisor Escolar quanto a sua ação de assessoramento e orientação aos gestores. Em outras palavras, procura observar como os espaços de formação criados são significativos para o pesquisador-supervisor, nas interações com uma supervisora colaboradora e, posteriormente, com a diretora e a coordenadora pedagógica de uma escola municipal. Teoricamente, o trabalho está apoiado nos conceitos de gestão educacional de Libâneo (2008) e Lück (2008) como paradigmas que buscam a coesão do fazer pedagógico e uma maior participação do coletivo nas tomadas de decisão. Também é discutido o papel do Supervisor Escolar a partir das perspectivas de Rangel (1997 e 2011), Paro (2011), Evangelista e Freire (2011), Giancaterino (2010), Ferreira (2008) e Carvalho e Oliveira (2012) para o desenvolvimento das ações de articulação das diretrizes políticas educacionais, acopladas à ação formadora do Supervisor Escolar. A pesquisa apoiou-se também na Pedagogia Crítica (FREIRE, 1975 e 2001) e na Teoria Sócio-Histórica e Cultural, tendo como foco questões como mediação e zona de desenvolvimento proximal, segundo Vygotsky (1996 e 2000), à perspectiva da linguagem como instrumento valioso, de cunho inerentemente ideológico (BAKHTIN, 2003 e 2004), necessário à tomada de consciência dos profissionais da educação através de uma prática dialógica. A metodologia de pesquisa é Crítica de Colaboração (MAGALHÃES, 2004), pois parte do pressuposto da necessidade de transformação social e educacional, por meio de ações refletidas em parceria com os gestores educacionais. Os dados foram gerados no decorrer de: (1) dois encontros de formação, chamados de conversas reflexivas, dos quais fizeram parte o supervisor pesquisador e uma supervisora colaboradora; e (2) uma reunião, também chamada de conversa reflexiva, da qual fizeram parte o supervisor pesquisador, um diretor e um coordenador pedagógico de uma escola pública municipal. Os dados foram analisados a partir das perspectivas teóricas de Kerbrat- Orecchioni (2006), das categorias da análise do discurso de Orsolini (2005), nas análises de interação de Pontecorvo (2005) e na responsabilização enunciativa de Adam (2011). Esta investigação se justifica pela crescente preocupação com a formação das equipes diretivas das escolas frente às grandes transformações sociais e políticas mundiais e, mais especificamente, as brasileiras ocorridas no século XX. Ao longo da pesquisa, concluí que a formação do Supervisor Escolar é imprescindível para uma atuação comprometida com as questões políticas e sociais na condução de seus fazeres escolares, entendendo estes como reconstrutores de objetivos institucionais educacionais úteis para o aperfeiçoamento das práticas didático-pedagógicas das escolas. É a partir dessas questões que se dá a investigação da distância entre as prescrições e o trabalho realizado pelos gestores educacionais quanto à implementação de ações que busquem desenvolver e elaborar os projetos escolares

The problem of this study was to determine the perceived competencies needed by supervisors in order to supervise instruction conducted by part-time instructors in a junior/community college setting. The study was conducted in three phases. The purpose of phase one of the study was to determine the areas of responsibility and tasks which are appropriately delegated to the supervisors of part-time instructors. To accomplish this purpose, areas of responsibility and tasks were drawn from job descriptions for the position of supervisor of part-time instructors in the Dallas County Community College District. The areas of responsibility and tasks were reworded by the investigator to serve as items in a questionnaire to which participants in the First National Conference on Part-time Instructors in the Community College were asked to respond. Means and standard deviations were determined for each group in relation to each competency statement for both importance and adequacy. All 134 competency statements listed in the questionnaire were rated by all groups as important. All but four of the competencies were rated by all groups as adequately performed by present supervisors. A list of seven competencies which were deemed very important (mean score of 4.50 or more) was presented.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-11-22T11:43:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Monica da Silva Valadão.pdf: 5594728 bytes, checksum: 5889879dc56c15258129b8e395784b53 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-22T11:43:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Monica da Silva Valadão.pdf: 5594728 bytes, checksum: 5889879dc56c15258129b8e395784b53 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-25 / The research aimed to analyse the visit’s conditions, designed in the supervising action, and how they may be configured as formative possibilities in order to qualify the academic activities proposed by the School Supervisors. This investigation intends to offer support for the Directors and Pedagogical Coordinators’ practices, leading, following and evaluating the Education Unit development, regarding the management and pedagogical dimensions, with the aim to act in a collaborative and constructive way, aiming the improvement of the teaching and learning process since it proposes critical reflections about the school needs. The profile of the Education Municipal System of São Paulo’s School Supervisor was also evidenced and characterized. The research was developed in four Schools of Children Education belonging to this System and had as subjects: four pedagogical coordinators, four directors and one school supervisor – the own researcher who at the time of the data production performed this role in the Education Units. This research is based on the dialogical construction and the critical reflection of the practice, having as major theoretical inputs Paulo Freire, Laurinda de Almeida, Vera Placco, Naura Ferreira, Lourdes Possani, Heloísa Lück and Mary Rangel. The analysis and interpretation of the data are ratified by the qualitative approach as proposed by Lüdke and André (1986). The methodological procedures used were: document analysis of the visit’s conditions, vídeo-interview with a semi-structured script and a questionnaire of characteriztion of the research subjects. It was highlighted the perception changes of the subjects concerning the new profile of the School Supervisor of this System, which do not act anymore as a surveillance agent but perform now as a partner with the managers, being co-responsible for the Schools teaching and learning process. According to the interviewed perceptions, the visits’ conditions represent this mechanism of formative possibility for the school managers, since they may promote the rethinking of the pedagogical work. This document goes beyond the formative presumptions and the surveillance, existing so far, assuming the purpose to evince the complexity of the school institutions routines, their progress, needs, difficulties and limitations, in order to allow the Manager Triad (directors, pedagogical coordinators and school supervisor) – in a dialogical and joint work – to take collective decisions in the administrative and pedagogical spheres, and that these lead to the real pedagogical and formative propositions needed for the pedagogical work achievement, with quality, inside the Schools / A pesquisa teve por objetivo analisar os termos de visita, elaborados na ação supervisora, e como estes se configuram em um dispositivo de possibilidades formativas para qualificar as ações educativas propostas pelos Supervisores Escolares. Essa investigação visa corroborar com as práticas de Diretores e Coordenadores Pedagógicos ao orientar, acompanhar e avaliar o desenvolvimento da Unidade Educacional, nas dimensões administrativas e pedagógicas, com o intuito de agir colaborativo e propositivo, visando a melhoria dos processos de ensino e aprendizagem ao propor reflexões críticas em relação às demandas escolares. Buscou-se também evidenciar e caracterizar o perfil do atual Supervisor Escolar da Rede Municipal de Ensino de São Paulo. A pesquisa foi realizada em quatro Escolas de Educação Infantil pertencentes a esta Rede e teve como sujeitos: quatro coordenadores pedagógicos, quatro diretores e uma supervisora escolar – a própria pesquisadora e que na época da produção de dados desempenhava essa função nestas Unidades Educacionais. Esta pesquisa tem como base a construção dialógica e a reflexão crítica da prática, tendo como principais aportes teóricos Paulo Freire, Laurinda de Almeida, Vera Placco, Naura Ferreira, Lourdes Possani, Heloísa Lück e Mary Rangel. A análise e interpretação dos dados produzidos são referendados na abordagem qualitativa, conforme proposto por Lüdke e André (1986). Como procedimentos metodológicos foram utilizadas: análise documental dos termos de visita, vídeo-entrevista com roteiro semiestruturado e questionário de caracterização dos participantes da pesquisa. Evidenciou-se que há mudanças nas percepções dos sujeitos em relação ao novo perfil do Supervisor Escolar desta Rede, deixando de agir como agente fiscalizador para atuar em parceria com gestores, sendo corresponsável pelos processos de ensino e aprendizagem das Escolas. Os termos de visita, na percepção das entrevistadas, se constituem como esse dispositivo de possibilidade formativa aos gestores escolares, pois possibilitam repensar o trabalho pedagógico. Este documento vai além dos pressupostos informativos e de fiscalização assumidos até então, para uma finalidade de evidenciar a complexidade do cotidiano das instituições escolares, seus avanços, necessidades, dificuldades e limitações, de modo que o Trio Gestor (diretores, coordenadores pedagógicos e supervisor escolar) – em um trabalho conjunto e dialógico – possa tomar decisões coletivas nas esferas administrativas e pedagógicas e que estas levem às reais proposições pedagógicas e formativas necessárias para a realização do trabalho pedagógico, com qualidade, no interior das Escolas