EDU796: Ethical Leadership
Credit Hours:
3
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Estimated Hours Per Week:
20
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Overview
This course analyzes and evaluates ELCC Standard 5, focusing on educator integrity, fairness, and ethics. The course focuses on the school as a community of ethical values, the task of becoming an ethical leader, and the priorities of justice and caring. Candidates explore ethics and social evolution, as well as changing technology.
The course project, The Ethical Leader: Developing an Ethical Leadership Process, is a key assessment designed to demonstrate mastery of the ELCC professional standards. Each JIU candidate develops with his/her classmates an ethical decision-making process and provides a rationale. The process the group devises will have succinct, clearly defined steps and be broadly applicable to ethical dilemmas found in K-12 learning institutions. The candidate will also identify and describe his or her personal ethical leadership characteristics and identify the areas that he or she needs to develop to become a stronger ethical leader.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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Analyze and evaluate ELCC Standard 5.
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Develop, with your cohort and professor, an ethical decision-making process and describe it in detail.
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Analyze and evaluate your personal leadership characteristics by designing a “Matrix of Ethical Leadership Strengths and Challenges” drawn from ELCC Standard 5.
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Analyze and evaluate your current leadership capacity against ELCC Standard 5.
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Analyze and evaluate current and relevant literature on ethical leadership regarding your personal strengths to build from or challenges to address against ELCC Standard 5.
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Use the process their group developed to develop a sound resolution to an ethical or moral dilemma of your own experience.
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Reflect on your resolution against ELCC Standard 5.
Prerequisites
EDU795 is a prerequisite for this course.
Required Texts
EDU796 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore
