EDU791: Facilitating a Shared Vision of Learning

Credit Hours:
3
Estimated Hours Per Week:
20

Overview

This course focuses on the topic of educators as leaders. Candidates will explore this topic using the EdD/EdS in Educational Leadership program areas of emphasis, which include teaching and learning, educational administration, educational research, educational policy analysis, and the business of the learning organization. Candidates will investigate professional development leadership theory and practices. They will focus on what it takes for educators to meet the individual needs of students in order to achieve high academic achievement.

The course project, The Visionary Leader: Facilitating a Shared Vision of Learning, is a key assessment designed to demonstrate mastery of the ELCC professional standards.  Each JIU candidate develops in conjunction with his or her classmates a shared vision of the learning model and analyzes current leadership capacity, plans for improvement, and implementation of the model. The candidate then identifies and describes his or her personal leadership characteristics and identifies areas that he or she needs to develop to create and implement a vision of learning.

Learning Outcomes

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

  • Develop a “shared vision of learning” that is supported by your JIU School of Education learning community.
  • Analyze and evaluate current and relevant literature on leadership vision and learning communities for student achievement.
  • Analyze and evaluate personal leadership characteristics by designing a matrix of leadership strengths and challenges, drawn from ELCC Standard 1.
  • Analyze and evaluate your current leadership capacity regarding personal strengths to build from or challenges to address, drawn from ELCC Standard 1.
  • Analyze and develop a leadership capacity plan for change that will lead you to greater leadership capacity, drawn from ELCC Standard 1.
  • Analyze and develop a leadership capacity evaluation plan drawn from ELCC Standard 1 and reflect on your personal status on that path.
ENROLLMENT
To enroll in this course, please complete the online application.

Prerequisites

EDU801 is a prerequisite for this course.

Required Texts
EDU791 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore