Clinical Supervision and Teacher Development

ISBN-13: 9780470386248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str.

Keith A. Acheson; Meredith Damien Gall

Opis

University supervisors, cooperating teachers, staff development specialists, and school administrators will improve their skills by studying this book's comprehensive coverage of teacher-centered techniques of clinical supervision. It is an authoritative resource for university courses, workshops, and personal use; and it is equally applicable to the supervision of preservice, novice, and experienced teachers. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments in classroom observation, conferencing, effective teaching methods, teachers' professional growth, and teacher evaluation. Two new chapters discuss problems of practice in clinical supervision and its relationship to other approaches to professional development.

Spis treści

Unit One: An Overview of Clinical Supervision.

Chapter 1 The Nature of Clinical Supervision.

Unit Two: The Uses Of Clinical Supervision.

Chapter 2 Using Clinical Supervision to Promote Teacher Development.

Chapter 3 Using Clinical Supervision to Support Other Methods of Professional Development.

Chapter 4 Using Clinical Supervision to Promote Effective Teaching.

Chapter 5 Using Clinical Supervision in Teacher Evaluation.

Chapter 6 Problems of Practice in Clinical Supervision.

Unit Three: Techniques for the Conferencing Phases of Clinical Supervision.

Chapter 7 Interpersonal Communication in Clinical Supervision.

Chapter 8 The Planning Conference.

Chapter 9 The Feedback Conference.

Unit Four: Classroom Observation Techniques.

Chapter 10 Selective Verbatim Transcription.

Chapter 11 Seating Chart Observation Records.

Chapter 12 Wide–Lens Techniques.

Chapter 13 Checklists, Rating Scales, and Timeline Coding.

Appendix.

Effective Teaching Practices and Methods for Observing Them.

Name Index.

Subject Index.