EDU797: Leadership and the Art of Change Management
Credit Hours:
3
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Estimated Hours Per Week:
20
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Overview
This course investigates leadership topics and provides a venue for candidates to develop a philosophy of leadership and identify opportunities to lead within learning communities. Course materials, assignments, and discussions assist candidates in an effort to integrate leadership principles and skills with day-to-day activities and action research projects. Themes include:
- Exploring the primary factors of leadership.
- Conducting a comprehensive review of the historical, current, and emerging theories of leadership.
- Investigating the work of leadership and its opportunities and challenges.
In the course project, Leadership Portfolio: Personal and Organizational Leadership Analysis, candidates address the genuine needs of a specific learning community and attend to an important education problem. Candidates describe an ideal K–12 leader and analyze and evaluate their own leadership skills through an academic personal leadership assessment as well as conduct an organizational leadership needs assessment for their chosen learning organization. Further, based upon the results of the leadership inventory, personal philosophy research, and organizational needs assessment, each candidate will synthesize a leadership portfolio intended to serve as a roadmap for future leadership growth within the given organization.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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Analyze and evaluate research in the areas of leadership and change management.
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Investigate leadership concepts and use this knowledge to create thoughtful statements of leadership.
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Analyze and evaluate how the day-to-day work of leadership advances (or impedes) learning organizations and individuals.
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Create a personal leadership portfolio.
Prerequisites
EDU795 is a prerequisite for this course.
Required Texts
EDU797 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore
