Gerald D. Bailey

School is for Teachers: Enhancing the School Environment

Teachers who feel good about themselves and their abilities are the ones most likely to experience success, say these writers, who suggest a personal approach for principals to use in creating positive relationships with teachers.

Wanted: A New Literacy for the Information Age.

School leaders must understand and advocate the new literacy as a learn ing model that will prepare students for the twenty-first century.

The Accreditation Process: Focusing on the Advantages

Community and school personnel are not always aware of the many advantages that are derived from accreditation activities. Unless these advantages are recognized, the authors contend, many of their benefits will be lost.

An Evaluator's Guide to Diagnosing and Analyzing Teaching Styles

Many administrators lack a systematic and orderly way of diag nosing teacher behavior, according to this writer. He describes one classification system that can be used in the evaluation process.

Improving Classroom Instruction: Is There a Better Model?:

Almost as many strategies for improv ing instruction have been suggested as there are instructors. Bailey contends that a strategy built on the premise that teachers are capable of direct ing their own instruc tional improvement activities holds great promise.

Education for the Information Age: Is It Time to Trade Vehicles?

To prepare students for the 21st century, educators must reexamine their educational paradigms and look far into the future. An Information Age audit might be a good way to start.

A Blueprint for Currieulum Development: Establishing a Systematic Design

School districts need a comprehensive, long-range blueprint for their total opera tion. The goal-com patency-objective hierarchy allows them to become sys tematic in design and operation.

Faculty Feedback for Administrators: A Means To Improve Leadership Behavior

Faculty feedback instruments provide one means for admin istrators to assess their own performance. This writer offers some guidelines for use in developing such an instrument.

Integrating Classroom Supervision, School Improvement.

Supervision is the essence of instructional leadership, say these writers. In addition, they warn, effective supervisory leadership requires constant searching for ways to integrate and align the core elements of school improvement.

Identifying Sex Equitable Interaction Patterns in Classroom Supervision

All too often, the research dealing with sex equity is over looked by teacher supervisors, according to this writer, who notes that unconscious sexist teaching behavior is characteris tic of both male and female teachers.