1. Social Media/2.0 Tools for
Instructional Supervision

2. Purpose of presentation:
• Discuss what instructional supervision means
to our schools
• Facilitate changing mindsets and replacing
behaviors using 2.0 tools
• Showcase best practices in the school
• Showcase of 2.0 tools and their application to
better communication, building new practices

3. Derek L. Mc
Coy

4. What is instructional supervision?
What does it look like in your schools?
What impact is it having in your school[s]?

5. Instructional Supervision

6. ‘.., work with teacher in ways to
promote lifelong learning skills;
inquiry, reflection, collaboration
and a dedication to professional
growth and development.’
“Glickman [1981].., ‘the goal of
instructional supervision is to
help teachers learn how to
increase their own capacity to
achieve professional learning
goals for their students“
“a supervisor’s style either
enhances or diminishes
teacher’s abilities to engage in
learning that is developmentally
appropriate”
Sally J. Zepeda 2007

7. what we do in terms of monitoring and
providing feedback to staff to promote
desired/ needed behaviors and what
we do to change and replace behaviors
that aren't conducive to student
learning and growth

8. Key Factors of Changing Teachers’ Behaviors
• Provide replacement behavior options
• Apply cognitive coaching strategies

9. Identifying problems is not enough..,
We have to support!

11. Twitter
• Microblogging
• Learn the best from others
• Exposure to great
educators
• Exchange of ideas
• Connection to like minded
thinkers
• Inspiration
• Models of best practice
• Validation

12. Twitter

13. Great stuff on
Twitter
Specialized
Learning with
Hashtags

14. Twitter
Lessons Learned
• Lead training
• Host a chat party
• Follow up
• Don’t feel pressure
to read everything
• Its ok to lurk and
learn [at first]
• Praise your deep
divers

15. • Social bookmarking
• Share resources
• Share thoughts
• Develop common goals

17. Lessons Learned
• Download the toolbar
• Set up groups via Teacher Console
• Don’t pressure yourself with a quota
• Readers/Subscriptions
• Follow up
• Praise your deep divers

18. Collective, Online Resourcing
Great for collaboration
Paperless

20. Livebinder

21. Does your school use any of these tools?
How do they help your efforts in
instructional supervision?

23. •Is social networking
•Enables us to create circles of friends
•Is an opportunity for dynamic collaboration

26. Collaboration

29. • Share your thoughts
• Your message/vision
• Create an archive of
important points
• Showcase best practices
• Place for creativity
• Let them read your vision

32. Lessons Learned
• Write the best way for you
• Read/subscribe to some blogs
• Share good blogs with others
• Encourage others to blog
• Not about length, quality vs quantity

33. • Place for creativity
• Great features
• Online archive of videos
• Archive for best practices
• Use special features, annotation
• Embed in your blogs, websites

35. A Plug to ..,

36. A Plug for Connectivity
• Grow yourself
• Learn about learning
• Learn about leadership
• Unlearn and relearn

37. We have to be efficient
We have to be connected
Blog Post by Bill Ferriter

38. New opportunities for different
results and outcomes

39. Citations/Resources
• Blog – A Tempered Radical, Bill Ferriter
• Blog – The 21st
Century Principal, J. Robinson
• Blog – A Principal’s Reflection, Eric Sheniger
• Tweetdeck
• Instructional Supervision, Sally J. Zepeda 2007
• Tools: Twitter, Blogger, Diigo, Youtube
• Communicating and Connecting with Social
Media, Ferriter, Ramsden, and Sheninger