1st Edition

Supervision Across the Content Areas

By Sally J. Zepeda, R. Stewart Mayers Copyright 2004
    224 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    224 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    You became a school leader after succeeding in your particular content area and/or grade level. Now you're responsible for the entire school. You are accountable for everything that goes on, including results from those who teach outside your areas of original expertise.

    Supervision Across the Content Areas provides tools and strategies to help you effectively supervise all of your teachers, including those in contents areas or grade levels in which you may not have had personal classroom experience. While focusing on four key content areas Mathematics, Science, English/Language Arts, and Social Studies, this book also provides supervision tools for other content areas (foreign languages, fine arts, physical education, etc.).

    Also included are tools and strategies to help you
    - supervise teachers who use instructional strategies such as differentiated instruction, Socratic Seminars, cooperative learning, and inquiry.
    - apply local and national standards to frame your instructional program.
    - ensure accountability of teachers who use multiple intelligences, brain-based learning, and other innovations.
    - understand the learning needs of students across grades PreK-12.

    1 The Context of Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Supervision
    Why Supervision Across the Content Areas
    Accountability and Standards
    The Context of Teaching and Learning
    Framing Supervision in a Context
    2 Instructional Supervision
    Informal and Formal Supervision
    Clinical Supervision
    Differentiated and Developmental Supervision
    Peer Coaching
    Action Research
    Portfolio Development
    Pulling Together Differentiated Supervisory Practices
    3 Supervising the Curriculum
    Defining Curriculum
    Real Curriculum, Written Curriculum, and Tested Curriculum
    Curriculum Alignment
    Auditing Curriculum and Instruction
    4 Linkages Among Curriculum, Learning, and Instruction
    Linkages to Learning
    Socratic Seminars
    Cooperative Learning
    Simulations
    Inquiry
    Differentiated Assessment (Portfolios, Demonstrations, Projects)
    5 Brain Research, Multiple Intelligences, and Learning Styles
    What Is Differentiated Instruction?
    The Human Brain: Cultivating the Potential for Learning
    Multiple Intelligences
    Learning Styles
    Brain Research, Multiple Intelligences, and Learning Styles to Differentiate Instruction
    Supervision to Support the Use of Brain Research, Multiple Intelligences, and Learning Styles
    6 Students as Learners
    Theories of Psychological, Social, and Emotional Development
    Elementary School Learners
    Learners in Middle Schools
    High School Learners
    Stages of Development: Connections to the Supervision of Teachers
    7 Supervision in the Mathematics Classroom
    Standards for Mathematics Instruction
    Mathematics Content Across the PreK–12 Continuum
    Mathematics and Human Development Theory—Implications for Instruction
    Instructional Strategies for Mathematics Learning
    The Supervisor in the Mathematics Classroom
    Communicating
    8 Supervision in the English/Language Arts Classroom
    Standards for English/Language Arts Instruction
    English/Language Arts Curriculum
    Human Development Theory and Implications for English/Language Arts Instruction
    Instructional Strategies for English/Language Arts Classroom
    The Supervisor in the English/Language Arts Classroom
    9 Supervision in the Social Studies Classroom
    Standards for Social Studies Instruction
    Social Studies Curriculum Across the PreK–12 Continuum
    Human Development Theory and Implications for Social Studies Instruction
    Instructional Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom
    The Supervisor in the Social Studies Classroom
    10 Supervision in the Science Classroom
    The National Science Education Standards
    The Science Teaching Standards
    The Assessment Standards
    The Content Standards
    Science Curriculum Across the PreK–12 Continuum
    Human Development Theory and Implications for Science Instruction 184
    Instructional Strategies for the Science Classroom
    The Supervisor in the Science Classroom
    11 Ready, Set, Go
    12 References

    Biography

    Zepeda, Sally J.; Mayers, R. Stewart