In this book Gall and Acheson set to address three goals before its completion. The first goal was to give the ready a comprehensive look at clinical supervision. The second goal was to write a book that clinical supervisors would put to use in their daily work. The third goal was to write a book that was consistent with their beliefs that clinical supervision was both an art and a science.
2. Wayne K. Hoy, Fawcett Professor Emeritus. (n.d.). Retrieved November 13, 2015, from http://waynekhoy.com/collective_efficacy.html
This study was developed by Wayne K. Hoy in an effort to measure …show more content…
Merriam, S. B., & Bierema, L. L. (2014). Adult learning: Linking theory and practice. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Merriam and Beirema had three intended audiences for this text: Students in adult education and human resource development in the United States and Canada, graduate students, and undergraduate students in other countries. This book is based on both of their years of teaching and conducting workshops on adult learning. In the book they hope to explain the roots of adult learning up to where we are now.
6. Professional Development: Professional Learning Communities. (2015). Retrieved November 13, 2015, from …show more content…
They do this by breaking it into six attributes: Supportive and Shared Leadership, Collective Creativity, Shared Values and Vision, Supportive Conditions, and Shared Personal Practice
7. Southwest Education Development Laboratories. (2015). Professional learning communities assessment – revised. American Institutes for Research. Retrieved on November 13, 2015, from http://www.sedl.org/plc/assessment_validity_reliability.html.
The Southwest Education Development Laboratories looks to assess the effectiveness of professional learning communities by using a fifty-two question survey. Those questions are then broken down into six headings that are listed as best practices for developing a professional learning community.
8. Stoll, L., & Louis, K. (2007). Professional learning communities: Divergence, depth and dilemmas. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press.
In this book Stoll and Louis look to broaden and deepen conceptions about professional learning communities. Within the text the authors take the professional learning community farther than the administration and staff and look at support staff, the community, learning networks of schools, and international learning communities of school