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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides the framework for collaborative leadership in order to enhance professional practice through school personnel evaluation. It emphasizes the linkage between evaluation and student achievement. The integration of evaluative tools, methods, and state requirements into the evaluation system is present.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to be the capstone experience of the Curriculum and Instruction program. The course provides experiences designed to develop and enhance the overall effectiveness of the supervisor candidate's competencies. The internship is designed as an integrating experience and an opportunity for the graduate to practice those skills.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides the framework for the skills for Teacher Leaders Endorsement. It focuses on leadership theory and skills through a problem-solving and applied methodology. Leaders must acquire the necessary leadership repertoire to lead effectively in today's schools. Offered fall and spring. Prerequisite:    Program Admission
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course highlights peer mentoring theory and skills. Teacher leaders will apply these theories and skills as they work with peers to support planning, instruction, and assessment. Leaders must acquire the necessary leadership repertoire to lead effectively in today's schools. Offered fall and spring.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This educational leadership graduate course studies the principles, themes, and patterns for implementing educational change. Tools, techniques, and strategies for leading effective change are presented. The educational leader as change facilitator is emphasized.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course highlights the cultural and political entities. Embedded in the content is the focus on professional learning communities and working collaboratively with faculty as they address planning, instruction, assessment, student performance, student behavior and dispositions, data analysis, and action research. Prerequisite:    Program Admission
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to provide in-service educators (K-12) who have had little or no computer experience with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to use microcomputers as instructional tools in their classrooms. While acquiring computer skills, students will explore, use, and demonstrate competence in each of the following areas: word processing, databases, spreadsheets, graphics, multimedia, instructional design, telecommunications, and major issues associated with the use of technology in education. This course will provide in-service teachers with the knowledge base to make appropriate decisions regarding the use of technology in their respective classrooms. Not available to students who have taken ED 217 since summer 1994.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces K-12 Educators and/or Technology Specialist Certificate candidates to the potentials of the Internet and assist them in using this multi-faceted resource as an effective teaching tool within the classroom. Participants will be introduced to the history, structure, and overall capabilities of the Internet, including Electronic Mail, Telnet, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), World Wide Web, and web-based distance education. Within this framework, participants will create their own web pages, design on-line instructional lessons appropriate to their discipline, and demonstrate the integration of Internet/Technology information throughout the K-12 curriculum.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A web-based course that introduces K-12 Professionals and/or Masters of Education Degree candidates to the potentials of mobile devices and applications, and assist them in using these multi-faceted resources as effective teaching and professional development tools. Participants will be introduced to mobile educational technology related to communications, productivity, learning, presentations and integration. Within this framework, participants will create their own personal learning networks, mobile technology resources, online presentations and design instructional lessons appropriate to their discipline demonstrating the integration of mobile educational technology throughout the K-12 setting.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides the basic information you need to become a knowledgeable distance education educator. The course will cover theory and research that influences distance learning, the practical skills and knowledge needed to function in a distance learning environment, and will explore management and administrative issues that arise in distance education learning environments. Offered each fall. Prerequisite:    Program Admission