The course will provide an opportunity to critique research findings, analyze comparative designs, and examine interactive computer software. Curriculum Design, Practice and Assessment Provides students with a curriculum update in the major subjects of schooling with special emphasis on student assessment, teaching strategies, learning styles and interdisciplinary curriculum development. Students create a model for designing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum in a chosen discipline. Curriculum concepts are integrated in ways which are meaningful to various cultural groups and minorities. Factors which determine the success of curriculum change, including a needs assessment, will be considered.
Students complete a series of modules under the supervision of a faculty advisor.
Personnel Management Deals with policies affecting staff from the hiring process through retirement, as well as contractual issues. Financial Planning and Budgeting Deals with the budgeting process and its relationship to school-wide goals. Proposals for reconceptualizing schools are reviewed. This course will include a field-based training component. Students will acquire interpersonal and technical skills to assist them in working with people in their roles as supervisors, consultants, and advisors, and in improving the quality of instruction in schools.