EDUL 6376 Teachers as Leaders
This course will address the challenges, roles and functions of teacher leaders, with special emphasis on the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to work and lead in a school to improve student learning. Graduates will conceptualize and explore teacher leadership from a leadership prespective, specifically within the context of implementing and sustaining professional learning communities. The teacher leader will be examinig and analyzing the context in which teacher leaders work as well as what barriers teacher leaders face. The course will also explore how to support and nurture - in other words, build skills, knowledge and dispositions to build capacity of teacher leaders. Graduates will analyze theorectical principles and synthesize practical understandings of different teacher leadership models.
Offered
As scheduled