School Leadership and Administration : Important Concepts, Case Studies, and Simulations

by Snowden, Petra E.; Gorton, Richard A.

• ISBN13: 9780072397772
• ISBN10: 0072397772
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-31
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

School Leadership and Administration is designed to help prospective and experienced principals, administrators and supervisors increase their knowledge and skills through concepts, case-studies, and simulations. Two parts make up this text. Part I presents important theoretical concepts and research findings that if adequately understood and appropriately applied can improve educators' problem solving and leadership effectiveness. Part II consists of over 65 reality-based case studies, "In-Basket Exercises," simulations, and role-plays to illustrate problems and issues. The case studies, simulations, and exercises stimulate class discussion and reflection on key issues facing today's school administrator with guidelines for thoughtful problem solving and resolution.

Table of Contents

PART I: MAJOR CONCEPTS IN ADMINISTRATION AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: CONCEPTUAL TOOLS FOR EFFECTIVE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

Chapter 1: Decision Making

Chapter 2: Communication

Chapter 3: Authority, Power and Influence

Chapter 4: Group Leadership

Chapter 5: Conflict Management

Chapter 6: Organizational Culture

Chapter 7: School Improvement

PART II: CASE STUDIES AND SIMULATIONS: CLINICAL MATERIALS AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AND SUPERVISORS

Chapter 8: Introduction to Clinical Materials and Learning Experiences

Chapter 9: Beginning Challenges

1. Preparing for the Job Search

2. From Teacher to Administrator

3. The New Principal (In-Basket Activities)

4. The New Assistant Principal (In-Basket Activities)

5. Resentment over Appointment

6. Why Does a Woman Need to Act Like a Man?

7. Gimme That Old-Time Discipline

8. Is Being Busy Necessarily Productive?

Chapter 10: Student Problems

9. School Yard Dangers

10. Ideas on IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)

11. The Underachiever

12. What Should Be the Role of the Student Newspaper?

13. A Complex Discipline Problem

14. The Drop-Out Problem (Simulation Exercise)

15. Students Can’t Take Pressure Any Longer

16. An Issue of Morals and Priorities

17. "Zero Tolerance" for Weapons in Schools

Chapter 11: Administrator-Staff Relationships

18. Teacher Selection

19. Problems of a Beginning Teacher

20. Faculty Teamwork

21. Who Needs Lesson Plans?

22. Conflict Over Teacher Citizenship Rights

23. Faculty Dissatisfaction and Low Morale

24. Teacher Files a Grievance

25. Teacher Reacts Negatively to Personnel Evaluation

26. Faculty Slowdown

27. Do Women Have Power?

28. Collaboration Woes

Chapter 12: School-Community Relations

29. Curriculum Unit Upsets Parents

30. Communication and Constructed Reality

31. Parental Apathy

32. Wanted: A Plan for Improving Parental and Community Involvement

33. The School-Community Web

34. Developing Student Talent

35. A New Role for the Parents’ Organization

36. How Much Should Parents Be Told?

37. Administrator-Press Relations

38. Public Relations: What’s Really Important?

39. Censorship? Or Parents’ Rights?

40. Financial Crisis!

Chapter 13: Role and Organizational Problems

41. Principal’s Mid-Year Problems and Priorities (In-Basket Activities)

42. Principal’s End-of-the Year Problems and Priorities (In-Basket Activities)

43. Principal’s Dilemma

44. Principal’s Personal Conduct Results in Possible Suspension

45. Intra-Organizational Role Conflict

46. Supervisor-Principal Relationship

47. The Superintendent and the New School Board Members

48. Administrator Evaluation

Chapter 14: Race and Drug Issues

49. Can Total School Integration Be Achieved?

50. Minority Parents Are Dissatisfied with Integration

51. We Want Neighborhood Schools, Too!

52. Metropolitan Integration

53. Parents Detect Racial Disparity

54. Teacher Difficulty in a Multicultural Climate

55. Matter of What?

56. Do (Should?) We Treat Them All Alike?

57. Student Drug Problem at Washington School

58. Do Extreme Times Call for Radical Action? (A Leaderless Group Activity)

59. When A Faculty Member is Suspected of Drug Abuse

60. A Different Kind of "Drug" Problem

Chapter 15: Problems of Change

61. Teacher Tries to Individualize Instruction

62. Effective Schools: How Do We Get There From Here? (A Group Activity)

63. Planning for Improvement

64. School-Based Management

65. Restructuring Staff Evaluation and Supervision

66. Changing the Role of the Building Principal

67. In-Service or Disservice Education? Part I

68. In-Service or Disservice Education? Part II

69. School Choice

70. School District Chips Away at Computer Education Problems

71. Inclusion of Special Needs Students