Full Description
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.
Contents
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
