Handbook of Instructional Leadership : How Successful Principals Promote Teaching and Learning
UpdatedEdition of Bestseller! The updated and expanded second edition of this classic text provides new research and insights into how principals can encourage the teacher development that enhances student learning
eBook, English, 2003
2nd ed
SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, 2003
1 online resource (249 pages)
9781483362403, 148336240X
1100613955
Cover
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Dedication
Part I
The Art and Science of Instructional Leadership
Chapter 1
The Craft of Teacher Supervision
Our Study
The Instructional Supervision Legacy: From Control to Collaboration
Research on Instructional Supervision
Current Issues in the Field
Chapter 2
The Conference: Heart of Instructional Supervision
Successful Approaches
Research on Instructional Conferences
Our Findings
Summary
Chapter 3
Staff Development: Promoting Professional Growth
Research on Teaching and Learning
How Do Teachers Learn? Principles That Shape Staff Development
Our Findings: The Lifelong Study of Teaching and Learning
PSSSSST! Redesign
Tips for Leaders
Summary
Chapter 4
Reflection: Encouraging Critical Study
The Need for Reflective Practice
Related Research and the Development of Frameworks for Reflective Thinking
Approaches to Reflective Supervision
Our Study: Characteristics of Teacher Reflection
Principal Behaviors Fostering Reflection in Teachers and the Benefits to Teachers
Cognitive Coaching: Bridge to Reflection
Encouraging Reflection: Helpful Reminders
Portrait of a Facilitator for Reflective Practice
Part II
How Supervisors' Behaviors-Positive and Negative-Affect Teachers
Chapter 5
Being Visible Versus Interrupting and Abandoning
Visibility by Wandering around
Interruption of Class Instruction
Abandonment
Chapter 6
Praising Versus Criticizing
Praise
Criticism: More about Control
Chapter 7
Extending Autonomy Versus Maintaining Control
Extending Autonomy
The Control Orientation and Instructional Leadership
Other Aspects of Control
Goals of Principals' Control Orientation
The Abusive Control Orientation: The Worst of all
Summary. Chapter 8
The Successful Instructional Leader
What, Then, is Successful Instructional Leadership or Supervision?
Successful Leadership Vis-à-Vis Instruction
Tips for Principals
Linking Instructional Leadership to the Development of a Professional Learning Community
Chapter 9
Instructional Leadership: A Bridge to the Development of a Professional Learning Community
Reculturing for a Professional Learning Community
Professional Learning Communities: Findings from Research
Suggestions for Expanding Successful Instructional Leadership to Develop a Professional Learning Community
Everyone an Academic Leader
More to Learn: A Final Word
Resource: Research Method and Procedures
References
Index