This course presents models of evaluation/supervision in P – 12 settings. Topics include policies regarding supervision; diversity and its influence on a person’s mental maps; active listening, dialoging and conferencing skills; collaboration/teaming skills for teacher empowerment; consideration of testing data in teacher evaluation; and alternative forms of evaluation and curriculum development in accordance with the current standards. This course is designed to prepare the beginning supervisor/principal for the formidable task of working with both veteran and beginning teachers. The course will address the development and maintenance of trust, flexibility, cognition and instruction, and ways of assessing interactions. Issues that will be addressed include: strategies to set aside bias in cross-cultural communications; teachers and time (sequencing of lesson, simultaneity, synchronicity, duration, rhythm, and temporal logic); questioning strategies to cause engagement of the mind; language patterns that lead teachers to greater states of efficacy; and craftsmanship in reflective practice.
EDU 660: Supervision of Personnel and Performance Appraisal
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