Administrator′s Staff Development Activities Kit: J-B Ed: Activities

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.

Professional growth in schools: Looking at the big picture-- 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.

In service training: What is it and what it can be-- 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.

Extending current concepts of in-service training-- 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.

Supervision: Past and Present-- Section 4 focuses on supervision as a teacher responsibility, rather that a duty exclusive to administrators and includes Standards of teacher performance, a reproducible that identifies 75 essential and extended standards in the areas of instruction, student relationships, and all-school responsibilities. These provide targets for teachers as well as evaluate measures for administrators.

The what how of supervision-- Section 5 is packed with intriguing activities that emphasize important aspects of effective supervision, such as Mirrors...Red Pencils...Self-Analysis...Student Feedback...Collegial observation...and others.

The process of effective supervision-- Section 6 explores other, less traditional ways teachers can receive "mirrors" of their performance in order to evaluate their own effectiveness, such as A quick in-service: questioning techniques and A video Experience: A Mirror of classroom performance.

Teacher evaluation: Past and present-- Section 7 links evaluation to supervision and in-service training through activities and reproducibles like Teacher-directed evaluation...Feedback...and Role playing episode.

The Processes of effective evaluation-- Section 8 focuses on the integration of supervision with evaluation and includes reproducible aids such as Annual Review...
Interviewing for Tenure...Fundamental Skills...and Dismissal checklist.

Assuring the linkages among in-service training, supervision, and evaluation-- The last section of this resource reviews the three-pronged approach to professional development and examines Who does what and when.

Plus you'll find a reproducible 4-page Observational Booklet at the end of Unit. This is designed to help teachers gather information about their classroom performance and to promote teacher self-reflection and self-evaluation.

In short, Administrator's Staff Development Activities Kit gives you the basis for implementing an ongoing staff-development program that is embraced by teachers and administrators alike as a self-renewing process of professional growth activities.