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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses culture, diversity, and human rights from local and global perspectives and explores various life/world views with practical application for educators. Candidates will develop cultural competencies that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of educational and community cultural contexts. These competencies involve developing knowledge, skills, and attitudes that promote human rights, celebrate human differences, and accommodate all students so that they achieve the benefits of education.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to enhance candidates understanding of organizations and to build their capacity as leaders with and without authority to help the organization achieve its goals.
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3.00 Credits
This is a competency-oriented course which investigates the role of the principal in professional leadership, community service, shared decision making, personnel development, and the meeting of student needs.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a broad view of the human relations function as one of the critical and interrelated subsystems involved in the administration of a school or a school system. The major topics for consideration and investigation include knowledge of the processes and attitudes that facilitate the integration of a professional into the school organization, promotion of the instructional leadership of the individual and the enhancement of his/her work satisfaction and the awareness of the legal and ethical environment of personnel administration. The course challenges the student to respond to the changing needs in personnel administration by adopting new ways of working that can enhance the human resource capabilities of schools.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the multiple, complex ways that our schools and society shape each other, with special attention devoted to school leadership issues. Theory, research, and models of effective practice will inform the educational leaders role as a bridge between school and community. This bridging role includes being actively involved in building reciprocal relations within and between the school and community, facilitating understanding and communication among and between various interest groups as they impinge on the school, and developing mutually beneficial linkages and partnerships for the benefit of the school, particularly as they enhance the mission of promoting powerful and equitable learning for students, professionals, and the organization.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the professional teacher with an understanding of the concepts of adult learning and development and an awareness of some of the components, processes, and techniques of staff development programs. The focus is on the underlying theme of staff development programs that the professional teacher perceives learning and the acquisition of new competencies as a life-long process.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the skills of promoting effective cooperation between community and school. It also includes discussion of communication strategies, team building, and meeting patron need. Prerequisite: postgraduate standing or permission. (Canada only)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to support the position that the primary purpose of supervision is to provide the means for teachers and supervisors to increase their understanding of the teaching-learning process through collaborative inquiry that can increase classroom effectiveness and student learning. The primary assumption on which this course rests is given a democratic setting; all teachers have the potential for growth and are capable of making appropriate instructional decisions based on relevant classroom data. Teachers are perceived as active constructors of their own knowledge about learning and teaching and supervision is viewed as a collaborative means in creating this knowledge. The emphasis is on multiple methods of collecting objective data during instruction that can be used to make inferences and interpretations regarding the effectiveness of the teaching process.
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3.00 Credits
This course includes the basic approaches to planning and modifying school curricula and places these in historical, ideological, and political contexts. Topics include the diagnosis of needs, selection and organization of learning experiences, evaluating curricular systems, and the elements of the change process that promote equity and access to learning.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a thorough overview of the economics and financing of education. This course also presents, and prepares participants for using, standard budgeting procedures for managing schools and school systems.
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