Administration of guidance service: organization supervision, evaluation / Raymond N. Hatch and Buford Stefflre.

The administrator of guidance services must have, in addition to a knowledge of tools and techniques of guidance, a general understanding of administrative concepts. This book is meant to stimulate him to the development of a better understanding of administrative practice, which should result in an increase in his competence as a guidance specialist. In Part I he will find: 1) The major principles which underlie all sound administrative practice. 2) Means to understanding of the total pupil personnel program and the requisite qualifications of staff. 3) Discussion of organizational patterns and acquisition of staff. 4) Ways of estimating space requirements and determining budgetary needs. 5) A plan for evaluating the total program. 6) Possible way of initiating a guidance program and providing for continued leadership. Part II is a significant departure from the standard abstract discussion of administrative practice. Complete analyses of three school districts provide a way of relating the preceding material to concrete situations. The reader may test the various approaches to administrative action within the framework of any of the three systems. These case studies offer implications as to guidance and administrative procedures which should be helpful to the administrator, the guidance specialist, and the teacher.