Handbook of instructional leadership : how successful principals promote teaching and learning /: how successful principals promote teaching and learning. ([2004])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jo Blase, Joseph Blase.
• Authors: Blase, Jo Roberts; Blase, Joseph
• Contents: Foreword - Stephen P. Gordon; 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;
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks, Calif : Corwin Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 371.203; School supervision -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Educational leadership -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483360218; 1483360210
• Related ISBNs: 0761931147; 0761931155
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.