Effective Educational Systems (EDU 730)

Term: 2016-2017 Academic Year 2A (Grad- Accel)

Faculty

Aerin Elisabeth O'DellShow MyInfo popup for Aerin Elisabeth O'Dell

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Schedule

Wed, 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM (8/22/2016 - 10/14/2016) Location: L32 TBA TBA

Description

This course is designed to assist educational leaders in assessing needs and planning and communicating the importance and content of the effective school improvement plan. Building curriculum, designing instructional activities, maintaining positive school climate and assessing organizational performance through improvement planning are primary responsibilities of school/district leadership.
This course will utilize an inquiry format into school effectiveness with students taking major responsibility for guiding the class discussion. The work will take a critical slant, interrogating traditional ideas about the means and ends of public education and proposing alternative solutions. This course is designed to encourage and assist students in deconstructing traditional ways of thinking about effectiveness and to critically examine traditional measures of effectiveness (i.e., assessment scores, dropout rates, etc.). The intent of the deconstruction and critical examination is not to