Model for Administrator Training, Development Uses Both Theory and Practice

Abstract

The training model described here integrates administrative tasks, processes, and characteristics. It provides a flexible and realistic framework to improve administrator performance.

Educational administrative inservice education: An outline of a grounded theory

“…That is to say, the content is specific and relates to subject matter the participants are expected to learn. The content of administrative inservice education appears to fall somewhere equally along two strands: (1) self-improvement and (2) improvement of others (Donaldson, 1982;Biles, 1979;Garberina, 1980;Allen, Pellicer, & Boardman, 1984;Scott-McDonald & Howe, 1986). Where content is not specified, implicit assumptions exist that the system level goal is to improve administrator performance.…”