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EDU 802: Understanding and Influencing Society

Credit Hours: 3
Estimated Hours Per Week: 20

Overview

The EdD advisory board researched professional association, accrediting body, and government standards and recommendations to develop a program of learning that maximizes each student’s professional development as a leader. The board adopted the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) model standards as the framework for defining meaningful leadership learning objectives. The board found that the ISLLC model standards are comprehensive and align with professional association expectations (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education), accrediting body expectations (Higher Learning Commission), and government regulatory expectations (state and federal).

In brief, the ISLLC standards outline the essential knowledge (understanding), dispositions (beliefs, values, and commitments), and performances (processes and activities) necessary for effective leadership in the field of education. These standards were drawn from research on effective education leaders and the collective knowledge of education leaders from state education agencies and representatives from professional associations of educators. The EdD advisory board shares the Consortium’s commitment to raising the bar for the practice of school leadership. Although EdD students come from varied backgrounds and move into varied roles and responsibilities, we are confident that all graduates are exceptional education leaders.

In EDU802, students demonstrate their ability to promote the success of all learners by understanding, responding to, and influencing the larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.

Learning Outcomes

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

  • Analyze and evaluate ISLLC Standard 6.
  • Develop, with his/her cohort, a “Statement of the Educator’s Role to Understand, Respond to, and Influence Culture.”
  • Analyze and evaluate his/her personal leadership characteristics by designing a “matrix of leadership strengths and challenges” drawn from ISLLC Standard 6.
  • Analyze and evaluate his/her current leadership capacity against ISLLC Standard 6.
  • Analyze and evaluate current and relevant literature on leadership regarding his/her personal strengths to build from or challenges to address against ISLLC Standard 6.
  • Write a plan for and/or implement changes that lead to greater leadership capacity against ISLLC Standard 6.
  • Reflect on his/her plans and/or evaluate his/her implementation of changes against ISLLC Standard 6.

ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Required Texts
EDU 802 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore