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Administrator's Staff Development Activities Kit - (J-B Ed: Activities) by Michael Koehler (Paperback)

 Administrator's Staff Development Activities Kit - (J-B Ed: Activities) by  Michael Koehler (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Elementary and secondary school administrators will appreciate this comprehensive, ready-to-use staff development activities program that integrates in-service training, supervision, and evaluation. The program encourages professional growth through self-assessment and includes over 120 reproducible forms, charts, models and other aids that can be used as is in developmental activities. Topics and activities include Professional Growth in Schools: Looking at the Big Picture, In-Service Training, What It is and What It Can Be, Extending Current Concepts of In-Service Training, Supervision: Past & Present, The What & How of Supervision, The Process of Effective Supervision, Teacher Evaluation: Past & Present, The Processes of Effective Evaluation, Assuring the Linkages Among In-Service Training, and Supervision, & Evaluation. Includes a reproducible four-page Observation Booklet designed to help teachers gather information about their classroom performance and to promote teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This practical resource gives elementary and secondary school administrators a comprehensive, ready-to-use staff development activities program that integrates in-service training, supervision, and evaluation. The program encourages professional growth through self-assessment and includes over 120 reproducible forms, charts, models and other aids that can be used "as is" in developmental activities. <p>For easy use, all materials are organized into nine sections and printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying of any form or chart as many times as needed. Here's a brief overview of the topics and activities you'll find in each section.</p> <p><b>Professional growth in schools: Looking at the big picture</b>-- Section 1 describes the functional relationship among in-service training, supervision, and evaluation and shows how an integrated approach provides the follow-up experiences teachers need to learn and grow. The section focuses on need assessment and includes the activity <i>Helping Hands</i>, which examines various ways of acquiring new knowledge.</p> <p><b>In service training: What is it and what it can be</b>-- Section 2 presents in-service training as one of the three important links in overall development through activities such as <i>Sharing your strengths&Culture; ...Culture</i> <i>and climate inventory...</i> and <i>Values and student behavior: a needs assessment</i>.</p> <p><b>Extending current concepts of in-service training</b>-- In Section 3, you'll find an introduction to in-service activities for new teachers plus five reproducible It's your Call case studies in which teachers play a role and choose from multiple responses. Other reproducibles include <i>Portfolios</i>....<i>Teacher journals</i>...and <i>Professional growth relationships</i>.</p> <p><b>Supervision: Past and Present</b>-- Section 4 focuses on supervision as a teacher responsibility, rather that a duty exclusive to administrators and includes <i>Standards of teacher performance</i>, a reproducible that identifies 75 essential and extended standards in the areas of instruction, student relationships, and all-school responsibilities. These provide targets for teachers as well as evaluate measures for administrators.</p> <p><b>The what how of supervision</b>-- Section 5 is packed with intriguing activities that emphasize important aspects of effective supervision, such as <i>Mirrors</i>...<i>Red Pencils...Self-Analysis...Student Feedback...Collegial observation...</i>and others.</p> <p><b>The process of effective supervision</b>-- Section 6 explores other, less traditional ways teachers can receive "mirrors" of their performance in order to evaluate their own effectiveness, such as <i>A quick in-service: questioning techniques</i> and <i>A video Experience: A Mirror of classroom performance</i>.</p> <p><b>Teacher evaluation: Past and present</b>-- Section 7 links evaluation to supervision and in-service training through activities and reproducibles like <i>Teacher-directed evaluation...Feedback...</i>and <i>Role playing episode.</i></p> <p><b>The Processes of effective evaluation</b>-- Section 8 focuses on the integration of supervision with evaluation and includes reproducible aids such as <i>Annual Review...</i><br /> <i>Interviewing for Tenure...Fundamental Skills...</i>and <i>Dismissal checklist.</i></p> <p><b>Assuring the linkages among in-service training, supervision, and evaluation</b>-- The last section of this resource reviews the three-pronged approach to professional development and examines <i>Who does what and when</i>.</p> <p>Plus you'll find a reproducible 4-page <i>Observational Booklet</i> at the end of Unit. This is designed to help teachers gather information about their classroom performance and to promote teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation.</p> <p>In short, <b>Administrator's Staff Development Activities Kit</b> gives you the basis for implementing an ongoing staff-development program that is embraced by teachers and administrators alike as a self-renewing process of professional growth activities.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Michael D. Koehler</b>, Ph.D., has been teaching educational administration, leadership, and supervision since 1974. The author of 14 educational resources by Prentice Hall and its imprints, he currently is teaching part-time as well as writing, speaking and consulting with schools on teacher supervision and other topics.

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