Awakening to Educational Supervision: A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Coaching and Supporting Teachers

Awakening to Educational Supervision: A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Coaching and Supporting Teachers introduces mindfulness as a way to enhance teacher supervision, offering specific techniques and exercises to embed in supervision routines and practices, and furthering the mindful supervision approach with notions of intuition, ethical and moral action, and community building.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 140 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2023
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Awakening to Educational Supervision: A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Coaching and Supporting Teachers introduces mindfulness as a powerful tool for enhancing the supervision of teachers and teacher candidates. Drawing on empirical research and the growing popularity of mindfulness in public school classrooms, the author argues that mindfulness methods can help supervisors become more conscious of their practices, less reactive, and more effective in their daily tasks, such as classroom observations, conferences, and fostering relationships and collegiality. In contrast to traditional models of supervision, the author proposes a present moment experience in which supervisors can embrace unlimited possibilities. The book provides specific techniques and exercises, such as mindfulness breathing and meditation, mindful walking, mindful note-taking, and deep listening, that can be integrated into supervision routines and practices. Additionally, the author explores the role of intuition, mindfulness in relation to ethical and moral action within supervision, and mindfulness as a way to further build community among school stakeholders.

Weight: 227g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538141182