This two credit hour graduate level course will explore influences on educational change at the classroom, school, community, state and national levels. It investigates the implications of a wide range of factors that influence and affect educational change. Students enrolled in the course will have opportunities to analyze influences on educational change as well as reflect on their own experiences, both past and present. Concurrent enrollment in Designing and Assessing Teaching and Learning and Culture and Education in the ASTL Sequence. This course is part of the proposed 12-hour CORE of the redesigned Advanced Master's Degree.
Teachers are members of learning communities.
The course will focus on varied experiences and methodologies to promote understanding of educational change. Students will identify changes they see as needed and develop a model strategy for their creation and implementation. Relevant readings will be assigned.