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3.00 Credits
The internship places the student in a position to integrate issues/content/skills from previous coursework. In particular, this experience ensures that the student will have broad opportunities to use the maximum number of leadership skills learned throughout the program. Note: The internship experience is an intensive experience during summer or in a supervised internship during the academic year.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EDL 601 Corequisite: EDL 611 Building upon the knowledge from EDL 610, students will learn and apply principles of staff evaluation including coaching, counseling, mutual goal setting, effective communication, data gathering, conflict resolution and listening. Participation in mentored evaluations exercises will emphasize effective dialogue and interventions, and successful interactions. Note: Evaluation of certified teachers and support staff will be emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EDL 601 Issues seminars are designed by the faculty and students with the express purpose of meeting defined needs, providing new information, and augmenting identified areas of further development and/or areas of deficiency based on the needs assessment of the cohort. They also can serve as continuing learning experiences for practicing administrators and program graduates in the immediate area.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on developing skills of building level leaders to champion and facilitate the work of teacher teams to ensure the success of all students in the school. Development and analysis of curriculum goals and essential outcomes, best practices in instruction, as well as the development and appropriate use of quality assessment instruments form the framework of the course. The course will also explore national trends in curriculum, instruction and assessment, and will explore effective intervention strategies for enhancing student achievement.
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3.00 Credits
Corequisite: EDL 601 Students are provided with fundamental concepts, basic skill development and effective techniques in understanding and managing group dynamics. The course also assists future educational leaders in working with individuals in three roles: collegial, supervisory and subordinate. Students study group process, building highly effective groups, developing cooperative interdependence in groups, vision building, effective communication and listening skills, inter-ethnic communication, conflict management, conflict resolution, and the psychology of self-adapting organizations.
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3.00 Credits
Corequisite: EDL 603 Students need to integrate all aspects of the principalship so that a leader is prepared to be collaborative, reflective, inquiry- oriented, database driven, student-focused and goal-directed, not only for the school, but for the community around it. The role of the principal in light of all previous coursework will be explored. Students will explore curriculum, instruction, organizational development, assessment, law, finance, staff development, organizational staffing and scheduling, legal aspects, vocational and special education, and other forces that influence the role of the educational leader in the school.
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3.00 Credits
Corequisite: EDL 613 Students are introduced to the major concepts in organizational development and organizational behavior using the school as the operant model, focusing on understanding organizations as artifacts of the larger society. The class also incorporates the study of how the interaction of individuals within an organization contributes to its overall growth and development. Students explore the fundamental concepts of human relations while developing basic skills and effective techniques in understanding and managing group dynamics. The class provides opportunities for students to engage in reflective learning activities and reading in the areas of group process, building highly effective groups, developing cooperative interdependence in groups, vision building, effective communications, listening skills, conflict management and resolution, and effective communications between school and community.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EDL 601 Corequisite: EDL 612 This course is an integrated approach to examining the external environment in which schools exist. As a systems approach to studying the schools and their environments as inseparable and interactive, the interconnectedness of schools; financial, political, legal, and social influences; understanding that all influence each part.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: EDL 601 Corequisite: EDL 658 This course integrates introductory concepts in the principles of inquiry including qualitative and quantitative methods, problem identification and framing, fundamentals of research methodology, measures of difference and correlation, basics of survey research and using these techniques in making organizational decisions.
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4.00 Credits
This course allows the candidate to investigate in depth his/her own leadership style, strengths, and areas for future growth. Candidates review current literature about the nature of effective leadership, engage in readings and personal inventories to identify personal strengths and styles, reflect upon the learning and personal experience to determine areas for future growth, and create a Personal Leadership Growth Plan. Candidates learn how to use strengths assessments and systems thinking in working with individuals, groups and teams of teachers.
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