David A. Erlandson

Teacher Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and Alternatives —Directions for Principals

Readers will find here a fresh source of evidence for some fundamental principles of school administra tion. The writers describe a study which purports to help the devel opment of produe tive teachers.

Leadership Laboratories: Professional Development for the 21st Century.

Countless principals who have been on the job during the past 30 years will testify that the principalship has grown progressively more intense. This can be documented by a review of the tasks that have been added to the principalship, the environmental pressures that operate on the school, and the emerging interpersonal relationships by which the school is governed and does its daily work.

Administrator Performance Evaluation: A Comparison of Two Measures in the Management Profile.

The Management Profile is an appraisal measure that examines the actual job performance of a manager to ascertain relative strength in six management functions and three leadership roles. The management functions examined are administration, technical competence, influence/control, persuasion, training/development, aad forecasting/planning. The leadership roles examined are: evaluator, director, and motivator. This study examined relationships between tuo measures: the Perceived Performance Inventory (PPI) and the videotaped interview. The ?PI looked at perceptions of six skill areas that were largely parallel to the six functions examined by the videotaped interview. The PPI identified the perceptions that different audiences have of an administrators summarized performance. The videotaped assessment examined specific performances in specified areas and assigned ratings to them. Appended are (1) 10 references; (2) a management profile; and (3) eight data tables. (SI) *******************************************************************x*** r. Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can Le made from the original document. ***********************************************************************

Planning for Professional Growth: A Process for Administrators

Described here is a method administrators can use to review their performance, evaluate, and plan for their own professional growth.

NASSP's Consortium for the Performance-Based Preparation of Principals: An Update.

welfare of the profession. The report focused on the design, delivery, and analysis of instruction in principal preparation programs. It looked at the relationship between traditional classroom settings and clinical and field-based experiences; it also suggested strategies for linking the two. It examined some promising practices and laid out in some detail a procedure whereby an institution of higher education could systematically examine the emphasis its own preparation program gave to various elements of program

Instructional Communications in A Large High School

Most large schools, these writers say, operate with narrow, faulty, one-way channels of communication. If instruction is to be effectively served, however, communications must flow in multiple directions, as explained on the following pages.

An Organizing Strategy for Managing Change in the School

Heres a set of tools for analyzing and managing change. They have their base in general systems theory. The proposed instruments appear simple but grow in sophistication in the hands of the administrator who senses their potential and applies them to problems of change in the school environ ment.