[Professional Growth Plan ~ Domain 2: Instructional Leadership,
Standard 3 Supervision for Learning]
Domain 2: Instructional Leadership
The Instructional Leadership domain emphasizes the principal’s and vice principal’s role in improving the quality of teaching and learning for students.
Belief Statement:
Principals and vice principals play an integral role in creating and maintaining an environment that supports the intellectual, human, and social and career development of all students.
Standard 3: Supervision for Learning
Principals and vice principals create a system and structures for effective supervision focused on instructional and assessment practices that maximize student engagement, learning and development.
• Supervisory Models, Processes and Structures
• Learning Team Processes: Facilitation of Collaborative Data Processes, Goal Setting and Planning
• Staff Evaluation Criteria, Procedures and Reports
• Use of Instructional Time
Evidence to support my development in meeting this standard:
- We aren’t in the ‘teaching business’, rather we are in the ‘learning business’.
- Less is more. Teach less, learn more.
- A fun event that I did to promote greater supervision in my school (as a principal in China) was my No Office Day, which actually became a global event the following year with the International No Office Day.
- With respect to maximizing student engagement, see my presentation on 7 Ways to Transform Your Classroom.
- In Truly Questioning Everything I examine ways in which we are redefining instructional time and instructional practice at the Inquiry Hub.