Language Teacher Supervision: A Case-Based Approach

✍ Scribed by Kathleen M. Bailey

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 401
• Series: Cambridge Language Teaching Library
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Language Teacher Supervision illuminates an under-explored area of the language teaching profession. Using case studies of actual teaching situations, the book explores such issues as teacher evaluation, autonomy, authority and awareness and attitude. It contains a wealth of practical detail on gathering data and providing feedback in post-observation conferences with teachers. A variety of cases, together with a comprehensive review of the literature, offers valuable insights into the dynamic, interactive process of language teacher supervision. Follow-up discussion questions, development tasks, and suggestions for further reading afford avenues for further exploration.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Language Teacher Supervision:
A Case-Based Approach......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 16
1 Doing supervision: Roles and skills......Page 18
2 Awareness and attitude......Page 51
3 Autonomy and authority......Page 71
4 Issues in observing language teachers......Page 98
5 Manual data collection procedures......Page 116
6 Electronic data collection procedures......Page 139
7 The post-observation conference......Page 157
8 Mitigation and the microanalysis of supervisory discourse......Page 177
9 Purposes, participants, and principles in language teacher evaluation......Page 199
10 Criteria for language teacher evaluation......Page 223
11 Supervising preservice language teachers......Page 242
12 Supervising teaching assistants......Page 268
13 Supervising in-service language teachers......Page 284
14 Supervising non-native-speaking teachers......Page 310
15 Professionalism, paradigm shifts, and language teacher supervision......Page 331
References......Page 362
Author index......Page 390
Subject index......Page 396