SuperVision and Instructional Leadership. A Developmental Approach 7th Edition

Editorial Review
This ground-breaking text in instructional leadership and supervision continues to challenge and reshape the conventional purposes, practices, structure, and language of supervision. The text's emphasis on school culture, teachers as adult learners, developmental leadership, democratic education, and collegial supervision has helped redefine the meaning of supervision and instructional leadership for both scholars and practitioners. This Seventh Edition continues the book's trend-setting tradition by placing instructional leadership and school improvement within a community and societal context; providing new examples of direct assistance, professional development, and action research; and presenting an entire new chapter, "Supervision for What? Democracy and the Good School." Building on the success of previous editions, the Seventh Edition addresses hot issues such as school improvement, constructivist teaching, professional development, Chaos Theory, and state-mandated standards. This is a resource that students purchase, use in class, and reference throughout their careers as education leaders.
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Customer Reviews

Valuable

2008-12-19
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 and Instructional Leadership.....

2008-11-22
I am using this book for a graduate course. I find the book to be easy to read and very informative.

Development of Better Schools

2008-10-11
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.

Insightful readings.

2008-09-29
This textbook is very well written and insightful in the areas of supervision in leadership in schools. It is apparent that the Authors took great care in the design and compilation of the book. I am more than halfway through it and the ideas and scenarios are true to life and very inspiring.

School Leaders

2008-09-28
Excellent text with 21st century solutions to managing and guiding effective leaders in schools today.

Easy read

2008-06-09
This ground-breaking text in instructional leadership and supervision continues to challenge and reshape the conventional purposes, practices, structure, and language of supervision. The text's emphasis on school culture, teachers as adult learners, developmental leadership, democratic education, and collegial supervision has helped redefine the meaning of supervision and instructional leadership for both scholars and practitioners. This Seventh Edition continues the book's trend-setting tradition by placing instructional leadership and school improvement within a community and societal context; providing new examples of direct assistance, professional development, and action research; and presenting an entire new chapter, "Supervision for What? Democracy and the Good School." Building on the success of previous editions, the Seventh Edition addresses hot issues such as school improvement, constructivist teaching, professional development, Chaos Theory, and state-mandated standards. This is a resource that students purchase, use in class, and reference throughout their careers as education leaders.

SuperVision: A most usable tool

2007-07-26
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.

Works for my Class...

2007-03-09
The book is pretty good. I only got it for a class. It seems to really uphold democratic ideals, and talks a lot about moulding students to also uphold them.

Useful

2006-07-17
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.