I am not so much of a textbook reader but this one is really interesting. Its called SuperVision and Instructional Leadership and my prof. Dr. Gordon is an author.

I mention this book because it seems like a Future Search discussion on how SuperVision isn’t a role or a position but a process and function for teachers, administrators, and the entire school organization.

I am only into this about 3 chapters (the fourth is due tomorrow night) but the ideas for change involve building a culture based on the COLLECTIVE beliefs about school, students, and teaching. Involving more than just the “supervisor” we all think of as our administrators but our peers and our students.

The best evaluations I received were not from PDAS when I was teaching but from the students themselves. I incorporated into each test and each semester a time for my students to evaluate how I presented lessons, projects, and rubrics. We all worked together to make what we all learned and created in the lessons work out the best we could make them. (And yes, that meant that I would also assign myself the project to complete as well.)

That being said, what would it be like to assign the role of supervisor to a peer? to a parent? to a student? How would you be measured and evaluated?

I sure hope not with PDAS or the one-time walk through evaluation. What if you predermined that you wanted to accomplish a set of goals and then invited people from different perspectives to give you insight into how you accomplished those goals during the course of a week? month? semester? year?

Geez. After all this typing, maybe I should go back to blogging!