Comments on: Upcoming class: Instructional Leadership

By: Matt Horne

Matt Horne — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:10:59 +0000

I’ll see what I can do about Skype of Google Talk (haven’t used either one yet, I know, I’m in the dark ages).

I lied, It’s May of 2008 that I’ll be done in. Not 2009. Oops. When you say “6 hours” of practicum, how many actual ground-hours is that? I’m taking a 4 credit practicum and it’s 360 hours, minimum. Yeesh! I’ll be doing that all next year too.

Best of luck to you, I’ll see what I can do about catching up with you this weekend.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:01:35 +0000

Spring of next year, for me. Guess that would make it 2008. This isn’t a master’s program for me, because I already have one of those. It’s a certification program, which is only 17 hours, including 6 hours of internship next year. I have the budgeting class and…something else this summer.

We use the Danielson model pretty extensively in Hermiston, though we also line it to our district curriculum goals as well. It’s a good evaluation system, if you ask me, probably the best I’ve been evaluated under so far.

Get a hold of Google talk or Skype before this weekend and drop us a line. I’ll have my laptop with me the whole time and I’ll leave both of those on.

By: Matt Horne

Matt Horne — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:52:24 +0000

I just finished up a class where we used Danielson’s book. I found it helpful for understanding what teachers were expected to do. I liked her charts for each domain, those were helpful. However, her work is extremely extensive and I’m not sure how useful I would actually find it in practice. I can see offering some general suggestions to teachers based on the domains discussed in the book, but I don’t know that I’d use it as a comprehensive evaluation? I don’t know, maybe it’s just me. I just finished Educational Research (the hardest class I’ve taken to date) and I’m in the middle of a linguistics class for my ESL endorsement. I’ll be taking “Instructional Leadership & Classroom Evaluation” next fall. This summer I’m signed up for “The Principalship,” “Theories of Teaching and Learning,” “Human and Financial Resources,” “Language and Cognition” (ESL), and “Foundations of Second Language Education” (again, ESL).

Looks like were almost at the same place in our education. I’ll be done with my M. Ed. Admin. in May of 2009, you?