چکیده (انگلیسی):

The accountability pressures of the recent decade require that instructional leaders work with
teachers to ensure student academic success. The “walkthrough” or “walkthrough observation”
is an instructional leadership practice that has been regarded as a promising avenue to
collaboratively work with teachers. This exploratory study examines aspiring instructional
leaders’ perceptions regarding the walkthrough observation. Findings indicate that this type of
practice is perceived as a Bureaucratic Approach, incorporating a one-way transmission of
feedback from the principal to the observed teacher, or as a Collaborative Approach, including
teachers in conducting observations and actively participating in the collection of walkthrough
data. Additionally, findings suggest that regardless of the perceived approach, a walkthrough
observation may be considered an authentic feedback data source