EDU798: Leading K-12 Organizations that Foster Learning

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
20

Overview

This course investigates school requirements for instructional leadership and develops a conception of leadership skills and practices to effectively address those requirements. In this course candidates will:

  • Develop a conceptualization of the structure, culture, climate, and pedagogy of a school organization as a foundation for investigating the leadership characteristics and practices needed to lead such an organization.
  • Investigate and describe those leadership characteristics and practices that serve to promote, develop, and sustain instruction.
  • Develop a comprehensive list of leadership knowledge, dispositions, and skills required to effectively lead an educational enterprise.
  • Compare and contrast personal leadership characteristics with that developed list.

The course project, The Instructional Leader: Building Organizations that Foster Learning, is a key assessment designed to demonstrate mastery of the ELCC professional standards.  Each JIU candidate characterizes a specific K-12 academic institution and creates a leadership handbook for its context. With his or her classmates, the candidate develops a K-12 academic leadership handbook that outlines supervisory plans for supervision, curriculum, instruction, organizational assessment, and performance appraisal.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Analyze and evaluate ELCC Standard 2.
  • Describe, with regard to ELCC Standard 2, the leadership characteristics and practices that serve to advocate, nurture, and sustain a school culture and climate of collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations to motivate students to learn and develop the instructional and leadership capacity of the staff.
  • Through the lens of ELCC Standard 2, evaluate and describe the leadership characteristics and practices that serve to create a comprehensive, rigorous, and coherent curricular program that maximizes the time spent on quality instruction, and utilizes the most effective instructional strategies and technology.
  • Analyze the leadership characteristics and practices that serve to develop assessment and accountability systems to monitor student learning, and the impact of instructional programs and practices with regard to ELCC Standard 2.
  • Evaluate, with ELCC Standard 2 as a guide, the leadership characteristics and practices that serve to develop and promote sound and effective supervision of instructional programs, management, and practices.
  • Illustrate, against ELCC Standard 2, a school organization in terms of its structure, culture, climate, and pedagogy; and how these affect and are affected by instructional leadership.
  • Analyze and describe instructional leadership knowledge, dispositions, and skills necessary to advocate, nurture, and sustain a sound and effective instructional program; and analyze which of those characteristics students currently possess with regard to ELCC Standard 2.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Prerequisites

EDD901 and EDU791 are prerequisites for this course.

Required Texts
EDU798 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore