Handbook of instructional leadership : how successful principals promote teaching and learning / / Jo Blase, Joseph Blase ; acquisitions editor Robert D. Clouse ; copy editor Jackie Tasch ; cover designer Michael Dubowe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797311403321
• Autore: Blase Jo Roberts
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-4833-6021-0; 1-4833-6240-X
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.203
• Soggetti: School supervision - United States; Educational leadership - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Dedication""; ""Part I - The Art and Science of Instructional Leadership""; ""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 2 - The Conference: Heart of Instructional Supervision""; ""Successful Approaches""; ""Research on Instructional Conferences""; ""Our Findings""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 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 Supervisorsâ€? Behaviorsâ€?Positive and Negativeâ€?Affect Teachers""; ""Chapter 5 - Being Visible Versus Interrupting and Abandoning""; ""Visibility by Wandering around""; ""Interruption of Class Instruction""; ""Abandonment""; ""Chapter 6 - Praising Versus Criticizing""; ""Praise""; ""Criticism: More about Control""; ""Chapter 9 - Instructional Leadership: A Bridge to the Development of a Professional Learning Community""""Reculturing 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""