Assignemnt

Imagine that the superintendent of the large school district where you teach has asked each principal to appoint one instructional leader per school to be responsible for instructional leadership, mentoring, and guiding the department heads. Your principal appointed you because you have twenty years of teaching experience in three school districts, and have a great rapport with teachers, students, and parents. In addition, you have recently completed your master's of education with a focus on instructional leadership (or a related academic discipline) and your principal (or manager) likes the new ideas you have proposed at staff meetings.

As the appointed instructional leader, you will be given one less class to teach, so you will have a free period to be involved with mentoring and supporting the principal in his / her goal of teacher excellence and continued professional development.

One of your first tasks is to design a four hour instructional supervision / leadership workshop for the educational organization's nine department heads and nine assistants, which will take place one week before teachers start the new year. Although you, the department heads, and their assistants do not have personnel management responsibilities, you are all responsible for providing instructional supervision and leadership for new and experienced teachers. The principal requested that you submit the workshop proposal in stages so he or she can review and provide feedback on each part of the workshop. (Your professor for this course will play the role of the principal. You will be expected to take the feedback from your professor and incorporate it into revisions.)

Write a three to four page paper in which you:

1. Develop a basic philosophy of instructional supervision / leadership with at least three key principles, providing a rationale and support for those principles.

2. Provide a rationale for the workshop based on the goals and philosophy.

3. Provide an analysis of the instructional setting, highlighting at least three key factors that would have a significant impact on the design of the workshop.

4. Propose at least three development goals for the school's department chairs and assistants based on the philosophy you have developed.

5. Provide an annotated bibliography of at least five academic sources and two Websites, published within the last five (5) years that might prove valuable in developing the workshop.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze issues that instructional supervisors / leaders encounter when developing successful learning environments.

• Develop a philosophy of instructional supervision to include various roles, such as agent of change within the school or district, champion of academic excellence and integrity, advocate for student success, coach and / or mentor for teacher performance improvement, and mentor for career and professional development of teachers within the context of adult learning needs and priorities.

• Recommend methods and a rationale for applying various models, steps, and tools available to supervisors and / or teachers in leadership roles to use in observation, mentoring, peer coaching, evaluation, and / or intervention processes to improve teaching and learning.

• Design a professional development workshop for instructional supervisors / leaders.

• Use technology and information resources to research issues in instructional supervision and leadership.

• Write clearly and concisely about instructional supervision and leadership using proper writing mechanics.