EDLD600 EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP (3 sh)
A required course in the Educational Leadership program and/or elective in the Alternative Education program.  It outlines the program's philosophy and ongoing assessment activities.   It provides students with the opportunity to become familiar with the program mission, philosophy, goals and competencies.  This course also provides an introduction to the theory and practice of educational aministration.

EDLD602 SCHOOL LAW (3 sh)
Focuses primarily on court cases and ethical issues related to the following topics: instruction programs, freedom of expression, search and seizure, student discipline, discrimination, privacy, and teacher dismissal.

EDLD605 CURRICULUM AND PROGRAM EVALUATION (3 sh)
A required course in the Educational Leadership program and/or elective in the Alternative Education program.  The course provides a history of evaluation, identifies the varied purposes of evaluation, and reviews various models of curriculum and program evaluation.

EDLD607 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN SCHOOLS (3 sh)
Reviews the latest research available to educators about implementing professional development programs in their schools. Students will become familiar with how to design professional development programs. University partnerships, professional development schools, data-driven programming and standards are included as units of study in the course. The course also explores and analyzes critical issues in professional development.

EDLD612 INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES (3 sh)
Provides principals with a practical and theoretical overview of instructional strategies that are effective and used in classrooms today. The course will highlight scaffolding instruction, differentiated instruction, varied learning styles and multiple intelligences, standards-based instruction, Blooms' Taxonomy of cognitive development and writing across the curriculum.

EDLD685 SUPERVISION LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION ISSUES -- ADVANCED FIELD EXPERIENCE (3 sh)
Allows students to apply skills, knowledge, and dispositions to areas that enhance the performance of an administrator. The course will highlight staff development, data collection, analysis and evaluation, program development, parent involvement, curriculum development, and accountability. Students will complete a variety of considerable in-school/district experiences over the 15 week period; not less than 120 hours.
 

07/07/2008