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3.00 Credits
This course acquaints the student with the operational procedures and structures of public school finance in Illinois. It reviews the social, economic, and political consideration in financing education. The roles of federal, state, and local governmental financial support are also examined. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to assist leaders in the management of change and deals with the developing strategies of implementing change. The theories and strategies discussed center on the individual, group, and organization. Each student is made aware that successful organizational change depends on effective diagnosis of subsystems within the organization, the organization's culture, and environmental forces. Strategies for team building, improving decision making in the system, and changing the culture of the organization are examined as a result of the diagnosis. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course examines planning and decision making at both the policy and operational levels. It emphasizes individual, group, and organizational decision making. This course reviews decision-making theory, social, political and economic influences on planning and decision making, and the P.I.E. (planning, implementing, and evaluating) cycle of decision making. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to develop in students an awareness of the pluralistic society in which we live and the impact of pluralism on schools. Students are expected to analyze and/or develop district policies relative to cultural pluralism in the schools. A field experience requires the student to make administrative recommendations to a school district regarding appropriate policies and procedures in a pluralistic setting. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for applicants of the Educational Leadership Doctoral program who hold an Educational Specialist degree from another university or who have completed considerable coursework in a degree program aligned to Illinois Content Standards and the national standards of the Educational Leadership Constituent Consortium. Under direction of a faculty member, a portfolio documenting knowledge, skills and dispositions embedded in the state and national standards will be created. Prerequisite(s): Candidate must hold Type 75 endorsement in Illinois or the Type 51 License in Wisconsin. Candidate must submit an application for admission to the EDS or EDD program in Educational Leadership. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on understanding political dimensions involved in building local, state, and national support for education. Policy, process, and political actions at the district level are to be analyzed and assessed. A field application analyzing policy and political systems at the school level is required in the course. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to identify and explore ways of thinking about curriculum planning, organization and evaluation. Those areas will be considered through examination of contemporary curriculum proposals and ideas drawn from those prominent during any cycle of the course. The course will involve a field research project as well as group deliberation regarding whether and how various proposals and ideas might be included in ongoing curriculum plans in a school or district. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the nature, dimensions, and contexts of professional development in the field of education. Such professional development is examined within a framework of school change and recent history of school reform efforts. The course explores the instructional implications of professional development within this context. 3 semester hours COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 296 NATIONAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
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6.00 Credits
The Educational Leadership Doctoral Specialist Internship is designed for selected individuals whose training and experience allows them to develop professionally through the application of theory and research to administrative practice. Interns will be placed in cooperating public school systems to test and refine the wide range of personal and professional competencies associated with effective leadership in district level administrative positions. The intern will engage in administrative activities directly related to district level functions such as finance, operations, personnel, and curriculum and instruction. Each student in the Educational Leadership Program is required to register for a total of 6 semester hours. 1-4 semester hours, variable credit per quarter.
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3.00 Credits
The Educational Leadership Doctoral Specialist intern seminar provides an opportunity for administrative interns to integrate practical experience with theoretical models addressed in the program course work. Students meet with the seminar professor to review the activities in which the interns are involved, share experiences, and products, discuss the degree of success achieved, analyze administrative styles of cooperating administrators, analyze interpersonal relationships and integrate these with the theoretical modes, processes and skills. Each student in the Educational Leadership Program is required to register for a total of 3 semester hours. 1-3 semester hours, variable credit per quarter.
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