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ERIC Number: EJ1339794
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 31
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Advancing a Democratic Pedagogy and Supervision Framework: An Illustrative Case of Teacher Questioning in Secondary Mathematics Instruction
Enright, Esther A.; Wieczorek, Douglas
Journal of Educational Supervision, v4 n3 Article 3 p17-46 2021
This article pushes back against the "evalu-centric view of improvement" (Hazi, 2018; 2020) in the supervision literature by advocating for a democratic pedagogy and supervision framework developed to support instructional supervision and evaluation dialogue between teachers and leaders. This democratized approach honors and centers the teacher's expertise and learning as well as the leader's in the observation, debrief, and reflection process. Through this decentering of expertise in the instructional supervision cycle, our goal is to build leaders' and teachers' mutual capacity to develop, implement, and sustain democratic instructional supervision cultures in classrooms and schools. Additionally, we illustrate our framework through a subject/discipline-specific case of instructional supervision in secondary mathematics instruction. Through this illustrative case, we demonstrate how the framework provides school leaders and teachers with specific, shared pedagogical language to engage in standards-based mathematical dialogue during the instructional supervision process. Finally, we discuss the implications of our questioning framework for democratic school leadership, supervisors' leadership content knowledge, teachers' discipline-specific work of teaching, and instructional supervision practices, which are often stifled by accountability-driven teacher evaluation education policies that suppress schools' leadership capacity to apply democratic instructional supervision standards and principles.
University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. 334 Merrill Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469. Web site: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/jes/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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