EDU800: Collaboration and Learning in Diverse Communities
Credit Hours:
3
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Estimated Hours Per Week:
20
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Overview
This course focuses on the education leader’s skills in building community far beyond the school walls, integrating the resources of the town and state into the school environment, and extending the resources of the school into the neighborhood. In this course candidates explore three themes:
- Collaborative problem solving
- Community communications
- Valuing diversity
The course project, Family, School, and Community: A Communication and Relations Strategic Plan, is a key assessment designed to demonstrate mastery of the ELCC professional standards. Each JIU candidate is responsible for developing with his or her classmates a communications and community relations strategic plan. The candidate analyzes and evaluates current and relevant literature on community relations leadership, creates a plan for changes that lead to greater community relations leadership, and reflects on plans for implementation.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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Analyze and evaluate ELCC Standard 4.
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Develop, with their cohort, a “Family, School, and Community Communication and Relations Plan.”
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Analyze and evaluate your personal leadership characteristics by designing a “matrix of leadership strengths and challenges” drawn from ELCC Standard 4.
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Analyze and evaluate your current leadership capacity against ELCC Standard 4.
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Analyze and evaluate current and relevant literature on leadership regarding your personal strengths to build from or challenges to address against ELCC Standard 4.
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Write a plan for and/or implement changes that lead to greater leadership capacity against ELCC Standard 4.
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Reflect on their plans and/or evaluate their implementation of changes against ELCC Standard 4.
Prerequisites
EDU803 is a prerequisite for this course.
Required Texts
EDU800 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore
