Focused Leadership

Instruction, Learning, and School Improvement

Roger E. Jones

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216282761
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Building-level and central office administrators must be both instructional and learning leaders. Instructional leadership means focusing on teacher behaviors that support student learning and helping teachers make good decisions about their own behaviors in the classroom. Learning leadership focuses on the learning itself—how students absorb, process, and retain information.

This guide will assist administrators in their quest to be more effective at what they do; this is meant not as a prescriptive document, but rather a baseline from which to grow. This guide provides information about the intricacies of the teaching and learning process and how these elements are linked. Readers are encouraged to use the guide as a foundation, as a starting point to expand their own instructional and learning leadership. They should modify, add to, and personalize the guide as they challenge themselves to grow.

The guide encompasses many components, all of which are important. It should help administrators to know what to look for during an observation, and, perhaps even more important, topics of conversations to have with teachers. Transformational leadership begins with understanding teaching and learning as well as having the ability to generate quality conversations.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Ch01. Planning
• Ch02. Learning Theory
• Ch03. Differentiation, Learning Styles, and Thinking Taxonomy
• Ch04. The Lesson Line
• Ch05. Research-based Instructional Strategies
• Ch06. Practice and Retention
• Ch07. Reinforcement and Intangibles
• Ch08. Student Engagement
• Ch09. Formative Assessment
• Ch10. The Essential Twelve
• Ch11. Five Levels of Listening and Qualities of Effective Feedback
• Ch12. The School Improvement Process
• Ch13. Creating a Culture of Achievement
• Ch14. Instruction and Learning
• Ch15. Expanding the Leadership Capacity of Others
• Ch16. Establishing Cultural Change and Rebranding
• Ch17. Final Thoughts
• References and Further Readings
• About the Author