John Hoyle, Mario S. Torres Jr.

Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals and Superintendents (eBook, ePUB)

Leadership Education at Its Best

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals and Superintendents is the first book to inspire and guide professors and program administrator's proven ways to prepare exemplary principals and superintendents for schools. The authors review issues surrounding extreme criticism of leadership education and counter with positive new research and practices that clearly highlight successful programs that link preparation to on-the-job successes of graduates. The reader will find a step-by-step guide to selecting the best students, creating a pre- and post-assessment of student learning, a well-designed procedure to pretest and assure that all masters degree students actually acquire a strong knowledge base and score well on state licensure exams. The final step provides proven questionnaires to survey graduates of the masters or doctoral programs to gather valuable feedback for constant program improvement and relevance to the real world of schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781607096887
• Artikelnr.: 39042964

Autorenporträt

John R. Hoyle is a senior professor at Texas A&M University and has served as a public school and university teacher and administrator for fifty-two years. He has authored over 150 scholarly publications, including the AASA Guidelines for the Preparation of School Administrators and the AASA Professional Standards for the Superintendency.
Mario S. Torres, Jr., is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University and a former urban school educator specializing in education law and policy. He has published in the field's premier journals including Educational Administration Quarterly, Education and Urban Society, and the BYU Education and Law Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Ground Floor
Chapter 2 Step One: Selecting the Best and Brightest Students
Chapter 3 Step Two: Pretesting Entering Master's and Doctoral Students
Chapter 4 Step Three: Aligning Master's Degree Programs with The 2008 ISLLC
Education Policy Standards and Doctoral Level Programs with the Canons of
Research and Best Practices
Chapter 5 Step Four: Creating and Maintaining Effective Student Advisory
Committees
Chapter 6 Step Five: Creating and Maintaining an Effective Support Staff
Chapter 7 Step Six: Conducting Annual Reviews with Graduates Serving as
Principals or Superintendents
Chapter 8 Final Words