More specific purposes are to prepare educators to be leaders in curriculum and instruction, to understand the dynamics of groups and interpersonal skills, to understand the role of school law and schools society, to understand the business aspects of managing schools and to understand research, theory, principles and practices of effective administration. Analyzes the historical, philosophical, sociological, epistemological, and pedagogical bases of curriculum patters with emphasis on relationship to contemporary designs. Explores models of curriculum organization by which to affect curriculum change. A study of the components and dynamics of human systems at the individual, group organization, and global levels. Emphasis on management theory of all categories of organizations.
Activities focus administrative skill development.
This course is designed to acquaint graduate students with supervision for instructional improvement. It will review the supervisor's role in curriculum development that includes selection of curriculum models, curriculum committees, and parent participation in curriculum and other factors in creating a positive educational change. This course will examine the major educational curricular philosophies, both historical and current, and their implications for the development of curriculum in contemporary settings. An analysis of policies, rules, laws, precedents and practices that impact students and adults in the educational settings. Emphasis on true and accurate accounts of case studies on the impact of the legal system on public education.