SuperVision and Instructional Leadership: A Developmental Approach

Read this book if you plan on being an administrator! Most valuable resource to me throughout my graduate school and years working as a teacher.

SuperVision proposes a developmental approach to supervision and administration to better our schools. A "one size fits all" administrative approach to running a school has proven ineffective - this book helps supervisors tailor their approach to each individual staff member for effective administration. With effective supervision of instruction our staff and schools can grow and reach their goal of improving student outcomes.

This text provides insightful and hands-on material for the prospective educational administrator. The book will challenge the reader to lead with vision, dismissing perceptions of old of the autocratic supervisor. Instead, the reader with an open mind will be inspired to lead with conviction, incorporating the ideal of collaborating with fellow professionals to improve student learning through improved instruction and assessment. With its end-of-the-chapter practicioner reflection and varied exercises, this text provides a personal and practical mean by which the reader will be able to relate, reflect and practice thier newfound ideas and perceptions for school leadership.

I recommend this book for anyone completing their Administration degree. It is well written and gives great and useful real life situations that are applicable.

Teaching has always been a tuff profession and when you add a poor principal to the mix, the job can be almost unbearable. Glickman, et al have presented the clinical supervision model in a very earthy, hands-on manner. The examples are true to life and the chapter questions are thought provoking and right on the money. This is one book you will keep when your program is done and I'm sure you will come back to it over and over.