Administrator's Staff Development Activities Kit [Paperback]

Elementary and secondary school administrators will appreciate this 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. Topics and activities include Professional Growth in Schools: Looking at the Big Picture, In-Service Training, What It is and What It Can Be, Extending Current Concepts of In-Service Training, Supervision: Past & Present, The What & How of Supervision, The Process of Effective Supervision, Teacher Evaluation: Past & Present, The Processes of Effective Evaluation, Assuring the Linkages Among In-Service Training, and Supervision, & Evaluation. Includes a reproducible four-page Observation Booklet designed to help teachers gather information about their classroom performance and to promote teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation.SECTION 1: Professional growth in schools: looking at the big picture.

What is professional growth?

Figure 1-1 professional growth model.

The complementary relationships among in-service training, supervision, and assessment.

What is currently happening in many schools?

Figure 1-2 professional growth in many schools.

Taking a closer look at processes.

Figure 1-3 evaluation system.

Figure1-4 professional growth relationship.

Taking one last look at the linkages.

Assuring the relationship.

Questions of control.

Taking a closer look at empowerment.

What are the needs of teachers?

Relating motivation to professional growth.

Money as a external motivator.