Supportive Supervision

Becoming a Teacher of Teachers
Albert J. Coppola - St. Petersburg College
Diane B. Scricca - Glen Cove School District
Gerard E. Connors - Sewanhaka Central School District
Supportive Supervision
February 2004 | 200 pages | Corwin
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"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

Preface

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

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

Endnotes

Index

Index

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

Preface

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

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

Endnotes

Index

Index

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Becoming a Teacher of Teachers

Albert J. Coppola , Diane B. Scricca , Gerard E. Connors
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"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.


Table Of 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

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Dr Dorene Huvaere, College Of Education, Lewis University
"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
"This book provides a fresh approach to supervision with emphasis on interpersonal and technical skills. It is a unique blend of theory and practice, written by people who have been in the trenches who describe real solutions and ways of working with teachers and improving solutions."
Gene Geisert, Associate Professor, Department Chair, St. John's University

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