商品簡介
Everything you need to know about supervision and student learning, professional development, coaching and evaluation, standards, and creating an environment for professional growth are covered. The book starts with a history of supervision and then addresses models and standards for effective teaching, state and federal frameworks, supervision and evaluation for effective instruction, and strategies for effective professional learning and growth plans.
作者簡介
Daniel R. Tomal, Ph.D.is a Distinguished Professor of Leadership at Concordia University Chicago teaching educational leadership. He is a consultant and an author of sixteen books such asAction Research for Educator, Challenging Students to Learn, Resource Management for School Administrators(with Craig Schilling), Managing Human Resource and Collective Bargaining (with Craig Schilling) andLeading School Change: Maximizing resources for school improvement (with Craig Schilling and Margaret Trybus) by Rowman & Littlefield Education, and has made guest appearance on many national radio and television shows.
Robert K. Wilhite, Ed.D. is a Professor and the Department Chair for Leadership at Concordia University Chicago. He teaches educational law, instructional leadership, supervisory practices, and school evaluation change processes. He is a former elementary, middle school, and high school principal, associate superintendent for curriculum and instruction, and superintendent of schools. He has most recently published articles on homeless students and adaptive leadership, “Chicago HOPES: Eliminating Educational Roadblocks for Homeless Students, “American School Board Journal, May 2011, “Applying Adaptive Leadership to Sustain K-12 District Initiatives and Challenges,”International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, Vol. 5 No. 3, 2010. He is a coauthor ofTeacher Leadership (with Dan Tomal and Craig Schilling) by Roman & Littlefield Education. He has facilitated training programs for the Midwest Principal Center and consulted with school districts across northern Illinois. He currently serves on the Illinois Licensure Board, Principal Review Panel, evaluating the design of university principal preparation programs in Illinois.
Barbara J. Phillips, Ph.D. is a Professor and Program Leader in the Department of Leadership at Concordia University Chicago. She teaches courses in school change, data-driven decision making, supervision and evaluation, teacher-leadership, and curriculum. She is a consultant to school districts and has been a speaker at workshops and conferences throughout the United States. She has been a teacher, a principal, an assistant superintendent for instruction, and has served as the Director of the School of Education at North Park University in Chicago. She has received community, state, and federal grants for teacher education improvement.
Paul A. Sims, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Program Leader in the Department of Leadership at Concordia University Chicago. He teaches courses in instructional leadership and supervision at the master’s level and supervisory theory and practice and strategies of educational leadership at the doctoral level. He has served as chairperson and reader on several doctoral dissertations. He is a former high school teacher, director of student activities, dean of students and high school principal in the Chicagoland area.
Nancy P. Gibson, Ph.D. is President of the National ASCD Board of Directors,an international education association. She has traveled extensively with the ASCD Board of Directors and studied educational systems in the following
