By John Myers

Quality

 

My Masters of Teaching students are at the beginning of their second year and have had two practicum experiences. They have an assignment to design rubrics that measure  QUALITY not QUANTITY.

This is the most challenging assignment in the course and I am happy to report on the results.

 

 

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By Risa Gluskin

 

 leadership education

University of Richmond, Center for Leadership Education, https://spcs.richmond.edu/centers-institutes/leadership-education/index.html

 

 

As a history teacher and former department head in a large school board I have been experiencing bubbling frustration with the decline of subject-specific leadership for years. A few years ago our board decided to scrap the subject-specific instructional leadership model and move toward non-subject specific learning coaches. Out went knowledgeable and helpful leaders in history, family studies and social sciences, geography, civics and K-8 social studies/history/geography. The program coordinator position was retained (the person who manages all of that but doesn’t necessarily deliver support him/herself).

I thought it would be interesting to know what the various subject leadership models across the province are. Based on some interviews with people in these jobs, here are some observations.

 

 

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