The course is designed to provide practicing, school administrators with knowledge, skills and, support to work with adults from diverse and, multicultural backgrounds, primarily teachers,, whose performance is not acceptable. The course is, not a clinical supervision course. Students will, continue to develop administrative awareness of, personal attitudes and beliefs about competence, and success of teachers based on gender, ethnic, background and social class. Course topics include, effective hiring and retention practices,, diagnosis of causes for unacceptable teacher, performance, objective documentation of teacher, performance, the legal basis for supervising and, evaluating teachers, review of and familiarization, with district evaluation documents, analysis of, personal leadership approaches and behaviors,, assessing teacher competence and potential for, growth, and finally, discussion of relevant, technology which supports effective supervision.
- Teacher: Ken Struckmeier