Description

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.

About Author

Sally J. Zepeda is a Professor of Educational Administration and Policy at the University of Georgia, where she teaches courses in instructional supervision, professional development, teacher evaluation, and school improvement.

Contents

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