School Administrator′s Staff Development Activities Manual: J-B Ed: Activities

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)

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.