Handbook of instructional leadership : how successful principals promote teaching and learning
- 2 ed
- Thousand Oaks : Corwin, 2004
- 228 p.
Part 1 - The art and science of instructional leadership 1 - The craft of teacher supervision Our study The instructional supervision legacy Research on institutional Current issues in the field 2 - The conference: heart of institucional supervision Successful approaches Research on institucional Our findings 3 - Staff development: promoting professinal growth Research on teaching and learning How do teachers learn?Priciples that shape staff development Our findings: the lifelong study of teaching and learning PSSSSST Tips for leaders 4 - Reflection: encouraging critical stdy The nedd 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 supervisiors' behaviors-positive and negative-affect teachers 5 - Being visible versus interrupting and abandoning Visibility by wandering around Interruption of class instruction Abandonment 6 - Praising versus criticizing Praise Criticism: more about control 7 - Extending autonomy versus maintaining control Extending autonomy The control orientation and instructional Other aspects of control Goals of principals' control orientation The abusive control orientation: the worst of all 8 - The usccessful instructional leader What, the, is successful instructional leadership or supervision? Successful leadership vis-a-vis instruction Tips for principals Linking instructinal leadership to the development of a professional learning community 9 - Instructional leadership: a bridge to the development of a professional learning community Reculturing for a professional learning communities: findings from research Suggestions for expanding successful Everyone an academic leader More to learn: a final word