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School Administrators Staff Development: 7 (J-B Ed: Activities) - Softcover

Hyman, Ronald

 
9780137926077: School Administrators Staff Development: 7 (J-B Ed: Activities)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0137926073 ISBN 13: 9780137926077
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Synopsis

For the K-12 supervising school administrator, here is a practical working tool for stimulating the professional growth of your staff during faculty meetings and other in-service workshops throughout the school year.

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About the Author

Ronald T. Hyman, Ed.D. Columbia University, is presently a professor of Education at the Graduate School of education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., where he teaches courses on teacher supervision and evaluation. He has authored many books and articles in the field, including Improving Discussion Leadership (New York: Teachers College Press, 1980), "Testing for Teacher Competence: The Logic, the Law, and the Implications," Journal of Teacher Education (March-April 1984), and "Writing Observation Reports," Thresholds in Education (May 1984). Dr. Hyman is an active member of the New Jersey Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (State Executive Board) and frequently conducts in-service workshops on teaching strategies as well as teacher supervision and evaluation.

From the Back Cover

For the K-12 supervising school administrator, here is a practical working tool for stimulating the professional growth of your staff during faculty meetings and other in-service workshops throughout the school year.

Included are guidelines for planning and chairing a faculty meeting ― with a handy chart for dealing with various types of motions - and seven though-provoking group activities, each focusing on a specific set of skills:

  • COLORED BROKEN SQUARES (cooperation and communication)
  • THE PENNY (observations, inference, and evaluation)
  • THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA (trust and group benefit)
  • THE SUPERVISION WINDOW (awareness and openness)
  • SHERLOCK (collaboration and independence)
  • WINTER GRASH SIRVIVAL (group decision-making)
  • THE SPELLING TEST (evaluation)
For easy and effective use, each activity is structured and complete, including a statement of purpose with explicit learning objectives ... an overview ... a list of materials needed ... number of participants ... step-by-step procedures ... points raised by the activity ... suggestions and comments ... and applications in staff development.

Moreover, all of the material required for the activities are either provided on reproducible pages or are easily obtained (for example, a penny).

You'll find that theses activities are highly motivating to teachers and provide a welcome break from conventional approaches to supervision. They facilitate interactions in a nonthreatening situation in which everyone participates and has fun while learning, and give the teacher and supervisor a common, unifying experience that serves as a reference point for working together.

NOTE: The activities in the Manual will be particularly useful when combined with the information and techniques in the author's School Administrator's Faculty Supervision Handbook.

From the Inside Flap

For the K-12 supervising school administrator, here is a practical working tool for stimulating the professional growth of your staff during faculty meetings and other in-service workshops throughout the school year.

Included are guidelines for planning and chairing a faculty meeting — with a handy chart for dealing with various types of motions - and seven though-provoking group activities, each focusing on a specific set of skills:

  • COLORED BROKEN SQUARES (cooperation and communication)
  • THE PENNY (observations, inference, and evaluation)
  • THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA (trust and group benefit)
  • THE SUPERVISION WINDOW (awareness and openness)
  • SHERLOCK (collaboration and independence)
  • WINTER GRASH SIRVIVAL (group decision-making)
  • THE SPELLING TEST (evaluation)
For easy and effective use, each activity is structured and complete, including a statement of purpose with explicit learning objectives ... an overview ... a list of materials needed ... number of participants ... step-by-step procedures ... points raised by the activity ... suggestions and comments ... and applications in staff development.

Moreover, all of the material required for the activities are either provided on reproducible pages or are easily obtained (for example, a penny).

You'll find that theses activities are highly motivating to teachers and provide a welcome break from conventional approaches to supervision. They facilitate interactions in a nonthreatening situation in which everyone participates and has fun while learning, and give the teacher and supervisor a common, unifying experience that serves as a reference point for working together.

NOTE: The activities in the Manual will be particularly useful when combined with the information and techniques in the author's School Administrator's Faculty Supervision Handbook.

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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0137926073
ISBN 13 
9780137926077
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
172