Handbook of Instructional Leadership
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Updated Edition of Bestseller!
Build a learning community of teachers and students through mastering the art of effective leadership!
The first edition of this classic text was based on a landmark study in which the authors surveyed over 800 K-12 teachers to find how the best principals encourage teacher growth and professionalism. The answers provided conclusive evidence that the most successful principals act as instructional leaders who advocate teacher development that enhances students' learning. The updated and expanded second edition presents new research by the Blases, along with the most recent research and insights to support the text's groundbreaking theory.
Successful instructional leaders inspire their staff to develop "professional learning communities" dedicated to effective teaching practices. New to the second edition is an in-depth analysis that shows principals how to achieve this goal. Also new are additional figures, models, and reading lists that enrich the text's original findings.
Time-tested practices of instructional leadership are still central features. Principals can use these keys to success to:
- Build teachers' trust through continual communication
- Encourage teachers to continue their self-improvement efforts
- Motivate teachers with constructive feedback
- Promote and participate in reflective practices
- Support and encourage teachers' professional development
Encourage your teachers to be their best through supportive collaboration and communication. Practice real instructional leadership and develop a "professional learning community" in which effective teaching promotes continued learning.
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
- Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Dedication
Dedication
Part I. The Art and Science of Instructional Leadership
- 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
- 2. The Conference: Heart of Instructional Supervision
- Successful Approaches
- Research on Instructional Conferences
- Our Findings
- Summary
- 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
- 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
- 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 Leadership
- Other Aspects of Control
- Goals of Principals' Control Orientation
- The Abusive Control Orientation: The Worst of All
- Summary
- 8. Conclusion: 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
- 9. Instructional Leadership: A Bridge to the Development of a Professional Learning Community
- Recruiting 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
Additional materials
Description
Updated Edition of Bestseller!
Build a learning community of teachers and students through mastering the art of effective leadership!
The first edition of this classic text was based on a landmark study in which the authors surveyed over 800 K-12 teachers to find how the best principals encourage teacher growth and professionalism. The answers provided conclusive evidence that the most successful principals act as instructional leaders who advocate teacher development that enhances students' learning. The updated and expanded second edition presents new research by the Blases, along with the most recent research and insights to support the text's groundbreaking theory.
Successful instructional leaders inspire their staff to develop "professional learning communities" dedicated to effective teaching practices. New to the second edition is an in-depth analysis that shows principals how to achieve this goal. Also new are additional figures, models, and reading lists that enrich the text's original findings.
Time-tested practices of instructional leadership are still central features. Principals can use these keys to success to:
- Build teachers' trust through continual communication
- Encourage teachers to continue their self-improvement efforts
- Motivate teachers with constructive feedback
- Promote and participate in reflective practices
- Support and encourage teachers' professional development
Encourage your teachers to be their best through supportive collaboration and communication. Practice real instructional leadership and develop a "professional learning community" in which effective teaching promotes continued learning.
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
- Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Dedication
Dedication
Part I. The Art and Science of Instructional Leadership
- 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
- 2. The Conference: Heart of Instructional Supervision
- Successful Approaches
- Research on Instructional Conferences
- Our Findings
- Summary
- 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
- 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
- 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 Leadership
- Other Aspects of Control
- Goals of Principals' Control Orientation
- The Abusive Control Orientation: The Worst of All
- Summary
- 8. Conclusion: 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
- 9. Instructional Leadership: A Bridge to the Development of a Professional Learning Community
- Recruiting 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
Additional materials
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Handbook of Instructional Leadership
How Successful Principals Promote Teaching and Learning
November 2003 | 248 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 28/04/2023 | 9780761931157 | $39.95 |
| Lifetime | 28/04/2023 | 9781483360218 | $36.00 |
Updated Edition of Bestseller!
Build a learning community of teachers and students through mastering the art of effective leadership!
The first edition of this classic text was based on a landmark study in which the authors surveyed over 800 K-12 teachers to find how the best principals encourage teacher growth and professionalism. The answers provided conclusive evidence that the most successful principals act as instructional leaders who advocate teacher development that enhances students' learning. The updated and expanded second edition presents new research by the Blases, along with the most recent research and insights to support the text's groundbreaking theory.
Successful instructional leaders inspire their staff to develop "professional learning communities" dedicated to effective teaching practices. New to the second edition is an in-depth analysis that shows principals how to achieve this goal. Also new are additional figures, models, and reading lists that enrich the text's original findings.
Time-tested practices of instructional leadership are still central features. Principals can use these keys to success to:
- Build teachers' trust through continual communication
- Encourage teachers to continue their self-improvement efforts
- Motivate teachers with constructive feedback
- Promote and participate in reflective practices
- Support and encourage teachers' professional development
Encourage your teachers to be their best through supportive collaboration and communication. Practice real instructional leadership and develop a "professional learning community" in which effective teaching promotes continued learning.
Table Of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Dedication
- Part I. The Art and Science of Instructional Leadership
- 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
- 2. The Conference: Heart of Instructional Supervision
- Successful Approaches
- Research on Instructional Conferences
- Our Findings
- Summary
- 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
- 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
- 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 Leadership
- Other Aspects of Control
- Goals of Principals' Control Orientation
- The Abusive Control Orientation: The Worst of All
- Summary
- 8. Conclusion: 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
- 9. Instructional Leadership: A Bridge to the Development of a Professional Learning Community
- Recruiting 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