EDU802: Understanding and Influencing Society

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
20

Overview

This course prepares candidates to promote the success of all learners by understanding, responding to, and influencing the larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context through the exercise of their own personal leadership qualities. The focus of the course is ELCC Standard 6.

The course project, The Influential Leader: Understanding the Larger Political, Social, Economic, Legal and Cultural Context, is a key assessment designed to demonstrate mastery of the ELCC professional standards.  Each JIU candidate develops with his or her classmates a statement of the educator’s role, which includes information on the role of law, governance, public education, and the political, cultural, or economic context supported by educational research and ELCC Standard 6.0. In addition, the candidate evaluates his or her personal leadership strengths and weaknesses relevant to understanding, responding to, and influencing the larger context, and creates a plan for improvement.

Learning Outcomes

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

  • Analyze and evaluate ELCC Standard 6.
  • Develop, with their cohort, a "Statement of the Educator’s Role to Understand, Respond to, and Influence Culture."
  • Analyze and evaluate their personal leadership characteristics by designing a “matrix of leadership strengths and challenges” drawn from ELCC Standard 6.
  • Analyze and evaluate their current leadership capacity against ELCC Standard 6.
  • Analyze and evaluate current and relevant literature on leadership as it pertains to their personal strengths and challenges against ELCC Standard 6.
  • Write a plan for and/or implement changes that lead to greater leadership capacity against ELCC Standard 6.
  • Reflect on their plans and/or evaluate their implementation of changes against ELCC Standard 6.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Prerequisites

EDU801 is a prerequisite for this course.

Required Texts
EDU802 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore