Administrator's Staff Development: Ready-To-Use Techniques & Materials for Training, Supervision & Evaluation (J-B Ed: Activities) - Taschenbuch

This practical resource gives elementary and secondary school administrators a comprehensive, ready-to-use staff development activities program that integrates in-service training, supervision, and evaluation. The program encourages professional growth through self-assessment and includes over 120 reproducible forms, charts, models and other aids that can be used "as is" in developmental activities. <P>For easy use, all materials are organized into nine sections and printed in a big 8-1/4" x 11" spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying of any form or chart as many times as needed. Here's a brief overview of the topics and activities you'll find in each section. <P>Professional growth in schools: Looking at the big picture&mdash; Section 1 describes the functional relationship among in-service training, supervision, and evaluation and shows how an integrated approach provides the follow-up experiences teachers need to learn and grow. The section focuses on need assessment and includes the activity "Helping Hands," which examines various ways of acquiring new knowledge. <P>In service training: What is it and what it can be&mdash; Section 2 presents in-service training as one of the three important links in overall development through activities such as "Sharing your strengths&Culture; ...Culture" "and climate inventory..." and "Values and student behavior: a needs assessment." <P>Extending current concepts of in-service training&mdash; In Section 3, you'll find an introduction to in-service activities for new teachers plus five reproducible It's your Call case studies in which teachers play a role and choose from multiple responses. Other reproducibles include"Portfolios..".."Teacher journals..".and "Professional growth relationships." <P>Supervision: Past and Present&mdash; Section 4 focuses on supervision as a teacher responsibility, rather that a duty exclusive to administrators and includes" Standards of teacher performance," a reproducible