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Handbook of instructional leadership : how successful principals promote teaching and learning

Jo Roberts Blase (Author), Joseph Blase (Author), Robert D. Clouse (Editor), Jackie Tasch (Editor), Michael Dubowe (Cover designer)
Updated Edition 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, 2004
Second edition View all formats and editions
Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, California, 2004
Handbooks and manuals
1 online resource (249 p.)
9781483360218, 1483360210
1290117592
""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 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""
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