Full Description
"This is a comprehensive and exceptionally practical blueprint for school supervision in the 21st century. At a time when national standards for administrative preparation are in the wings, this book should become required reading in schools of educational administration."
John Kappenberg
Director of Research Sewanhaka Central High School, Floral Park, NY
Successfully meet the needs of staff and students and become a teacher of teachers!
As an administrator, new or experienced, you are faced with a myriad of administrative, curricular, and supervisory tasks, while at the same time expected to provide ongoing professional training for your staff. How well prepared are you to deal effectively with the day-to-day business of supervising teachers? What specific support and training opportunities did you receive in order to be the successful leader everyone expects?
Supportive Supervision offers that much-needed and fully integrated support system for the building-level supervisor. By providing a clear path and focus, the authors present a highly usable, hands-on guide that will help fill in the blanks created by districts and schools unable to distribute resources equally for the development and training of their supervisors.
Using a practical approach, chapters focus on key points, including:
Improving your own leadership and supervisory skills
Collaborating with staff on establishing school wide goals focused on academic improvement
Implementing effective lesson planning with supportive and meaningful classroom observations
Recruiting and hiring the right teachers while meeting the professional development needs of all staff
A three-part process and writing mode for the annual teacher evaluation
Achieve what you first set out to do when you became an administrator: embrace the future by creating a school environment that successfully and creatively meets the needs of all staff and students.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
1. Supportive Supervision
The Supportive Supervision Continuum
Goal Setting
Lesson Planning
Observation
Professional Development
Extensive Professional Commitment
End-Of-Year Evaluation
2. What Makes a Great School?
The Answer Key
Some Are Better Than Others
Effective Schools
NASSP Research
Instructional Leadership Is the Key
Supportive Supervision Is Instructional Leadership
3. Hiring the Right Teachers
The Challenge
Teacher Shortages
Our Most Valuable Resource
Who Are the Right Teachers?
The Right Stuff
The Ten-Step Program
Summary
4. Goal Setting
The Need To Plan
Setting the Goals: A Collaborative Process
Data Analysis
Objectives
The Strategy
Evaluation
Goals for the New Teacher
Goals for the Marginal Teacher
Putting It All Together
5. Lesson Planning
Planning Should Be Linked To Goals
Your Role in the Planning Process
Supervisory Review
Keeping Current
Planning With the New Teacher
Planning With Experienced Teachers
Planning With Marginal Teachers
Effective Lesson Planning
Two Lesson Plan Designs
6. Observation
Supportive Approach to Observations
Be Supportive With All Staff
The Observation Process
A Complete Example of an Observation Report
The Supportive Supervision Observation Report
7. Professional Development
PD for All Staff
Planning and Flexibility
A Broad View of PD
Use a Variety of PD Activities
Base PD on Needs
PD and Academic Achievement
Feedback
Written Reports
A Final Word on PD
8. Extensive Professional Commitment
What is EPC?
EPC: Easily Recognized, Difficult to Define
Is the EPC Teacher Realistic?
Hiring Teachers With the Right Stuff
The Five Key Components to Building EPC in Your School
A Successful EPC Story
9. End-Of-Year Evaluation
EOY Evaluation Is a Process
Looking Ahead
In Summary
Endnotes
Index
