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Supervision A Redefinition

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ISBN-10: 0070578915

ISBN-13: 9780070578913

Edition: 6th 1998

Authors: Thomas Sergiovanni, Robert J. Starratt

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First published in 1971 and now the best known book in the field, "Supervision: A Redefinition" continues to be the leading text for combining an in-depth view of theory and research for supervision with practical applications. The Seventh Edition continues a thirty-year tradition of breaking new ground by continuously redefining the field of supervision in response to changing school contexts, policies, and realities. The practical applications are supported by a conception of supervision as moral agency. The book continues to promote a new vision, or redefinition, of supervision from that of a top-down activity performed by higher-ups in the school hierarchy, to one in which supervision…    
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Book details

List price: $55.94
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.84" long
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Preface
Perspectives for Supervision
Supervision and School Renewal Both Role and Function
A Framework for Supervision
Images of Supervision Scientific Management, Human Relations, and Neoscientific Management
Supervision Human Resources
Supervision Human Relations and Human Resources Supervision
Compared Revisiting the Supervisors
Supervision Responding to the Restructuring Agenda
A Reflection of the Restructuring Agenda A Larger Framework for Supervision
Sources of Authority for Supervisory Leadership
The Sources of Authority Bureaucratic Authority
Personal Authority
Technical-Rational Authority
Professional Authority
Moral Authority Supervision II What About Control?
The Importance of Capacity Building
Supervising the Learning Community Individualism and Community
Community in the Modern World
Community in the Postmodern World Linking
Community to Learning: Community for Learning
Community as Curriculum Supervisor D's Views
Community and School Improvement
Supervision as Moral Action Introduction
The Underside of Supervision
The Moral Heuristics of Supervisory Practice Promoting a Moral Community
The Moral Ideal of Teaching
The Moral Character of Learning and Teaching
Basic Assumptions: Relational Learning vs. Isolated Learning
Knowledge as Familiarity and Respect Leading to Responsibility
The Moral Character of Scholarship
The Social Responsibility of Knowledge Utilization
Two Teachers With Different Understandings of Learning Implications for Supervisors
The Supervisor's Educational Platform
The Basic Competency Platform
The Democratic Socialization Platform
The Urban Teacher Platform
The Ecological Platform Two Views of Knowledge and Learning Elements of a Platform
The Supervisor's Platform Approaches to Platform Clarification Summary
Foundations for Supervision
Teaching and Learning Introduction Four Ways of Thinking about Curriculum
Deep Understanding for All Students Authentic Teaching and Learning
The Context of the Learner Implications for Teaching Standards for Authentic
Pedagogy Concern with Outcomes Teaching for Understanding
Understanding by Design Research on Best Practice The Bottom Line
Supervisors Engaging Curriculum and Assessment Introduction
Standards of Content Knowledge State Curriculum Standards
The Teaching for Understanding Curriculum Situated Cognition
Observing the Curriculum-as-Taught Post-observation Reflections with the Teacher Additional Curriculum
Concerns Reflective Practice of the Teacher Reflective Practice of the Student
Assessing the Curriculum-as-Learned Assessment as Part of Curriculum
Self-Assessment Authenticity in Assessment
The Force of Prior Assumptions Summary
Appendix 7-1: Standards and Scoring Criteria for Assessment Tasks
Developing Teacher Leadership
The Supervisor as a Professional Emerging
Perspectives on Teacher Leadership
Teacher Leadership in the Classroom
The Next Step Supervisory
Response Additional Roles for Teacher Leaders
Teacher Leadership and the Restructuring Agenda Summary
Supervision, Evaluation, and Renewal
Classroom Supervision and Evaluation: Perspectives for Practice
How Scientific is Supervision and Evaluation?
Avoiding a Rationalistic Bias Patterned Rationality Confusing
Evaluation and Measurement Issues of Comprehensiveness Issues of Credibility Summary
Using Standards in Supervision Templates or Frameworks
The Interstate New Teacher Assessment and