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Show School Officials Plan Evaluation Study Guidelines Before the opening of the Iron County schools in the fall, all of the administrative, supervisory and guidance staff members meet together for a period of three or four days for an intensive inten-sive workshop regarding some phase of the district program. This meeting is usually held in a spot remote from the district. There, living and working together, to-gether, the entire staff re thinks objectives for the school program. pro-gram. Specific guidelines for constant evaluation of the work outlined for the school year are established. When school resumes, the district dis-trict staff meets the first and third Wednesdays of each month t in an evening meeting. Here they J continue to study an! evaluate; school practices aiul policies and! study critically ru w literature i and research in the field of education. ed-ucation. The impetus for a study to improve im-prove supervision of teaching came from one of the li monthly month-ly meetings. Over a period of time the group worked on developing devel-oping observation guides for principals and supervisors to be 'used when they visited classrooms. class-rooms. After the guides were completed, a team of principals and supervisors selected a school to be visited for a full day. Two teachers from the school visited i are invited to Join the group. Kaeh classroom is visited, and a critique is held by the staff. Each visit is discussed and analyzed and the principal of the school being visited keeps careful records rec-ords of the observations which he in turn shares in an individual individ-ual conference with each teacher, j Several school visits are car-1 rieil out during the school year. A different school is visited each time. These observation blocks are used chiefly as training experiences ex-periences for principals and supervisors sup-ervisors to develop greater observation ob-servation skills and as a means of upgrading a total district program. |