EDU 5471: Leadership in Instructional Supervision

Credit
3 semester hours

Course Description
The basic thrust of this course is toward an analysis of objectives, roles, functions, and practices of instructional supervision in elementary and secondary schools.  Emphasis is placed on supervisory leadership strategies and skills essential for program improvement for teachers’ professional growth, and for enhancing learning environments.  The strategies utilized in various supervisory approaches representing collaborative, directive and non-directive orientations will be examined, as will the assumptions underlying these approaches.  Particular attention will be given to the implications and applications for the research on instructionally effective schools for effective supervisory behavior.


Textbook
1. Supervision by Glickman (current edition)

2. The Principal by Ubbens, Hughes, and Norris (current edition)

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Instructor
Andrea Bittman (Summer Full Term)



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