Some Essentials in School Supervision

Essentials of Clinical Supervision

Some Essentials of Graph Transformation

This chapter introduces rule-based graph transformation, which constitutes a well-studied research area in computer science. The chapter presents the most fundamental definitions and illustrates them with some selected examples. It presents also the concept of transformation units, which makes pure graph transformation more feasible for specification and modeling aspects. Moreover, a translatio...

Supervision Practices of School Principals: Reflection in Action

School principals were invited to perform a reflective analysis of their teacher’s supervision practices, with the goal of consolidating the knowledge derived from experience, developing appropriate methods, and adapting their interventions. Data were collected from 12 semi-structured interviews. The interview to the double method was used to facilitate the representation and formalization of p...

After-school physical activity and eating behaviors of middle school students in relation to adult supervision.

OBJECTIVE Examine after-school activity patterns, eating behaviors, and social environment of overweight and normal weight middle school students. DESIGN Eating and physical activity behaviors of 141 students, ages 10-14, were monitored. Students completed a diary documenting type of activity, location, adult supervision, accompanying participants, and eating habits from 3:00 pm-12:00 am. S...

Home alone: supervision after school and child behavior

As female participation in the labor force continues to grow in the US, so too does reliance on non-parental child care. However, the high cost of child care has impeded the ability of many working mothers to find sufficient child care for their children. As a result, as recently as 1998 over eight million children ages five to 14 spent time without adult supervision on a regular basis in the U...