University of North Texas EDLE 5500: Internship in Educational Leadership Spring 2018 Course Syllabus – Sections 082 and 083 Instructor – Gary R. Clay, Ed. D. Contact Information Email – , , Blackboard Learn (Bb) - Course Messages Phone number – 214-585-1144 Mailing Address – 5902 Summer Point Dr., McKinney, Tx 75070 Office Hours: As needed before or after scheduled class meetings and site visits, or by phone, Skype, Face Time, online conferences or email. Tk20 This course includes three assignments that will be uploaded and assessed in the UNT Tk20 Assessment System. The Tk20 System can be accessed at . Scheduled Class Meetings – Orientation Meeting – Thursday, January 11, UNT Campus – Room 117, Wooten Hall, 5:30 – 7:00 – See UNT campus map for location of building. Use one of the parking garages northeast or southeast of Wooten Hall. Mid-Course Meeting – specific location, date, and time to be determined and communicated too you. The meeting is tentatively set for Thursday, March 1. Final Meeting – Individual scheduled meetings with Intern and supervising administrator at school or by phone contact – April 30 – May 4, for those in the UNT/DFW area.
of the semester, providing you a chance to comment on how this class is taught. The feedback from students is very important to continuous improvement in teaching and the courses at UNT. Participation in the survey is an important part of your participation in this course. The Educator as Agent of Engaged Learning: Improving the quality of education in Texas schools and elsewhere is the goal of programs for the education of educators at the University of North Texas. To achieve this goal, programs leading to teacher certification and advanced programs for educators at the University of North Texas 1) emphasize content, curricular, and pedagogical knowledge acquired through research and informed practice of the academic disciplines, 2) incorporate the Texas Teacher Proficiencies for learner centered education, 3) feature collaboration across the university and with schools and other agencies in the design and delivery of programs, and 4) respond to the rapid demographic, social, and technological change in the United States and the world. The educator as agent of engaged learning summarizes the conceptual framework for UNT's basic and advanced programs. This phrase reflects the directed action that arises from simultaneous commitment to academic knowledge bases and to learner centered practice. "Engaged learning" signifies the deep interaction with worthwhile and appropriate content that occurs for each student in the classrooms of caring and competent educators. "Engaged learning" features the on-going interchange between teacher and student about knowledge and between school and community about what is worth knowing. This conceptual framework recognizes the relationship between UNT and the larger community in promoting the commitment of a diverse citizenry to life-long learning. In our work of developing educators as agents of engaged learning, we value the contributions of professional development schools and other partners and seek collaborations which advance active, meaningful, and continuous learning. Seeing the engaged learner at the heart of a community that includes educators in various roles, we have chosen to describe each program of educator preparation at UNT with reference to the following key concepts, which are briefly defined below. Content and curricular knowledge refer to the grounding of the educator in content knowledge and knowledge construction and in making meaningful to learners the content of the PreK-16 curriculum.